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Subject: Foreign policy (USA). Document type: Declassified documents. Importance level: 1-Key.

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Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [original of CDP minute on securing a letter from the Solicitor-General - "I think this is worth doing but don't place great reliance on it"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [follow up to Chequers discussion - Solicitor-General finds Heseltine letter contains a "material inaccuracy"; Powell suggests Solicitor write to Heseltine requiring correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 25 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Charles Powell note to MT (congratulations & thanks) [“Your loyalty and thoughtfulness towards your staff far exceeds anything which I have known in over 20 years in the government service”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Robert Armstrong letter to MT (thanks) [devoutly hopes his evidence to the Select Committee “will have helped to take the heat out of the affair”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005]
Text 86 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (visit of Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs to London: arms control) [message delivered personally to MT by Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Interview with Graham Turner") [in present form article risks "exposing you to sharp criticism for dealing too vigorously with Southern African problems at a very sensitive moment", but Sunday Telegraph resisting changes; MT - interview "obtained on a FALSE BASIS"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session]
Text 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 17 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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