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Subject: Foreign policy (USA). Date range: 1 Feb 1981 – 28 Feb 1981.

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PDF 81 Feb 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center Memorandum ("Guatemala: The Climate for Insurgency") ["The 20-year old Marxist insurgency is again intensifying"] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Feb 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Time magazine interview transcript (economic strategy, US, defence and foreign affairs, Northern Ireland, SDP-Liberal Alliance) [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Korean President's Visit, Polish Contingency Planning and Allied Consultations, Soviet Grain Embargo, Meeting with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Justice Clark") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Reagan letter to MT (congratulations on MT's speech to the Pilgrim's Dinner) [concern for "democracy and liberty" is "the essence of the special relationship"] [released 2012]
Text 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (the special relationship) [declassified 1997]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT speech to the Pilgrims’ Dinner) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Korea, Soviet Grain Embargo, Meeting with Foreign Ministers, Inter-Agency Meeting on Jamaica, Meeting on CSCE with Max Kampelman, Justice Clark") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by President Reagan") [problems with state visits of US Presidents to the UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February") [UK priorities and objectives] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit to the Netherlands”) ["current mood … dissension and uncertainty"] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 3 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 81 Feb 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Meeting with Israeli Ambassador Evron, Spain-NATO and Our Bilateral Agreement, Americans Detained in Iran and American Properties, Launch of ICBM, NOtification of the Soviet Embassy, Use of Utapao Airbase in Thailand, Oil Supplies for Portugal, Publication of Human Rights Report, Poland") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Development Policy”) [MT: “The important thing is that we stand with the US”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Polish Ambassador Repeats Need for Financial Assistance, Meeting with Saudi Ambassador, Discussion with Greek Ambassador on US-Greek Relations, Dutch Ambassador's Visit, Special NATO Council Meeting on Poland, Soviet Refugee in US Embassy in Malta, Judiciary Committee Interest in Counter-Terrorism") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Namibia: President Masire of Botswana letter to MT (future of Namibia) [need to resist calls for sanctions; appeals to MT to impress upon Reagan need for positive US influence] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Rees-officials) ["North Sea Fiscal Regime"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE The Hague to FCO ("ERWs") [hostility in the Netherlands to Weinberger's remarks on US deployment of neutron bombs in Europe] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague, 6 February: Enhanced Radiation Warheads”) [further briefing; also on steel] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 5 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 0001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [plenary session: EC Budget, agricultural prices, North-South relations, aid, Japan, relations with the US, South Africa, Middle East, oil] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland") ["the slide to anarchy in Poland is reaching such a point that the Soviet Union may find it impossible not to intervene"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Ship Visit to Agadir, Morocco, Mexico, Sinai") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Sherman paper for MT ("Potential snags in Anglo-American relations") [Reaganites since election "brutally differentiated themselves" from MT's government] [declassified 2010]
PDF 81 Feb 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Carter letter to MT (Carter's visit to the British Virgin Isles) [thanks for hospitality of Governor] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Coleby minute for Fforde ("Visit to Washington & New York") [US approach to monetary policy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Expulsion of Cuban Diplomat, Call by Dobrynin, Swedish Foreign Minister's Statement on El Salvador, Increased Cooperation Among Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Aid to Private Groups in Nicaragua, Committee to Stimulate Investment in Jamaica, Interagency Review on Pakistan") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Official Visit of the Prime Minister of Mauritius: 10-13 February") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Meeting with Mr Volcker") [US economy; UK financial policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott, Carrington) [future defence policy/cutbacks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversations ("Ottawa summit and meeting of Personal Representatives") [Sir Robert Armstrong, Allan Gotlieb] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott-Carrington) [future defence policy] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 10 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Lybian Pilot Defects to Greece, Meeting with Omani Foreign Minister Zawawi, Appointment by Waldheim of a Special Representative on Afghanistan, Madrid CSCE: Beginning of the Final Stage") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Paul Volcker, chairman Federal Reserve) [prospects of the Reagan Administration; monetary control, etc] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 0002) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI Alexandria teletype to FBI Director (“Possible threat to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain”) [conversation overheard by a “source of proven reliability”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to Reagan (thanks for message of congratulations regarding MT's speech the Pilgrim's Dinner) [special relationship] [released 2012]
Text 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (importance of the US-UK relationship) [unclassified]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Mexico: Special Emissary, Talks with Italian Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador Okawara's Call") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (“A Review of NATO”) [objectives] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Lankester minute to Walters ("Georgetown University Speech") [Walters' draft for MT's speech and comments] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Zuckerman letter to MT (neutron bombs) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Exports of flour to the USSR”) [US embargo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Breakfast with Weinberger, NATO Secretary General, AWACs to NATO, The Australian and New Zealand Ambassadors' Calls") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Briefing for American Correspondents in London") [arrangements for on-the-record briefing] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Firearms for the RUC") [US ban on export licences] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: HMA The Hague despatch to FCO (“Visit to the Netherlands by the Prime Minister on 6 February 1981”) ["short working visit … had the intended effect"] [declassified 2011]

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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