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Subject: British relations with the US. Document type: Declassified documents. Importance levels: 1-Key, 2-Major.

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PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Speech by Gerry Adams in New York, evening of 1 February") ["rumours in Washington that [he] may offer some form of conditional ceasefire"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [terrible UK press, Adams using "the finest platform ever granted to the IRA to justify terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [Major deciding against message to President; US Ambassador to call at No.10 instead] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (evening) (Lyne-Seitz) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [No.10 calls in US Ambassador Ray Seitz - "need to find constructive ways of rebalancing the situation", distancing Administration from Adams's statements] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (0040Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["Adams offers nothing new" - account of his NYC speech] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 294 to FCO (0450Z) ("President Clinton on Northern Ireland") ["rejected Adams' call to pressurize the British Government on Northern Ireland"; says proposal for a US envoy "overtaken by events"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [contrary to US thinking, Adams visa "relieved rather than increased pressure on the Provisionals to end violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne calls Lake) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British thanks for "corrective action" in President's speech; conversation "amicable on both sides"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Press line on Northern Ireland: Wednesday 2 February") [PM wants "a very firm line in public comment today about Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Hume calls Lyne) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British misread Adams visit to US, which put him "under great pressure to refrain from violence and address the Joint Declaration"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 315 to FCO (0025Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["US press already describing the outcome of the visit as disappointing"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Major letter to Reynolds ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [Adams visit "has done a lot of damage and the Administration must be regretting their decision to let him in"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland up-date") [includes action plan and annex on Adams's statements in US - "a dense history lesson", no olive branch] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Spring in Brussels) [Spring explains Irish Government position on visa, "some disappointment at the outcome", but would be vindicated if Adams led catholics to a peaceful settlement in the north; Spring thought Adams' commitment to peace genuine] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 33 to UKHC Ottawa & various posts (1517Z) ("Sinn Fein President's Visit to the US") [warning against Sinn Fein attempts to secure visas] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Reynolds letter to Major ("Letter from the Taoiseach: meeting with the PM") [Adams visit putting great pressure on him not to disappoint; "I do not believe we have in any sense lost the initiative for peace"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Northern Ireland update") [PM thoughts on way ahead; endorses NIO action plan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to FCO ("President Clinton's call to the Prime Minister") [Clinton deeply angered by Sunday Times piece on visa; "very up-beat at the end of his conversation with the Prime Minister ... clearly felt it had gone well"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 04 Jun 26 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) MT: MT to Nancy Reagan (death of her husband) ["History will view him as one of America's greatest Presidents"]

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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).

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