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Date range: 4 Nov 198816 Nov 1988. Document type: Declassified documents.

Showing items 101 - 135 of 135.

PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: US State Dept briefing (“Issues agenda/schedule for Thatcher official visit”) [arrival, individual and plenary meetings] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher”) [future of sub-continent, Laker Airlines case, Middle East, US-Soviet relations, Central America] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Berlin issues”) [discussions with Soviets on Reagan’s Berlin initiative] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: East-West relations”) [“Ongoing changes in East Bloc have created opportunities; but essential to maintain consistent approach to deal effectively with continued challenges to Western interests”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Chemical weapons”) [Bush’s draft treaty as a basis for negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Cambodia”) [seek Vietnamese withdrawal, Sihanouk as head of a future government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Start negotiations and Trident”) [US position on inspection requirements] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Start”) [negotiators to produce joint draft treaty] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: CST mandate talks”) [“NATO seeks to remove force asymmetries between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and establish a higher degree of stability at a lower level of forces”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Europe: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)”) [“Negotiations on concluding document text going well … obstacles remain in both human rights and security areas”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Europe: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: European Economic Community (EC)”) [“We support European integration, but are concerned about statements by EC spokesmen stressing reciprocity, protection of ‘sensitive’ sectors, and preference for European goods”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Economy: US State Dept briefing (“United Kingdom economy at a glance”) [“Even though the British economy is booming, some observers believe it may be overheating and thus lead to inflationary problems and larger balance of payment deficits”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: COCOM”) [“There is increasing pressure from our key Allies, including the UK, to free up high technology trade with the Soviet Union”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Middle East: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Middle East peace process”) [“We cannot support any attempt, by either Israel or Arabs, to determine unilaterally the ultimate status of the West Bank or Gaza”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Northern Ireland: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Ireland and Northern Ireland”) [International Fund for Ireland, counter-terrorism measures] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Transport: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Civil Aviation”) [“disputes betwen the US and UK have occured frequently due to the highly competitive nature of the lucrative North Atlantic air routes”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Trade: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Gatt - Uruguay Round”) [“the most ambitious and technically complex trade negotiation yet undertaken”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) South Africa: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: South Africa”) [“State of emergency repression has quelled violent protest at the expense of further restricting political freedoms”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Africa: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Angola/Namibia negotiations”) [“The necessary compromises are now fairly clear, and have been framed in the US mediator’s proposal”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Schedule for MT visit to Washington [declassified ?2000]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: President Reagan briefing cards for MT visit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("ITV Levy Contract Extension Period and BSB Levy") [must guard against accusation of indifference to quality] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: David Young minute to Nicholas Ridley (CFCs conference) [Montreal Protocol, CFC emissions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 653 to FCO (1030Z) ("Afghanistan: Soviet Ambassador's Views") [record of conversation: Ian Mackley, Vorontsov] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT draft speech for White House Banquet (farewell to Reagan) [remembers 1981 - "you told me ... that for all our economic difficulties, we would be home safe and soon enough"; cuts Churchill story] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan, tête-à-tête then plenary) [US deficit, Gorbachev, Latin America, START & Trident; Middle East, Soviets, Afghanistan, GATT] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-George Shultz) [arms control, human rights, Angola/Namibia, South Africa] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Alan Greenspan) [US economy, budget deficit, Black Monday] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Dr Andrei Sakharov) [weaknesses and contradictions in perestroika; absence of legal basis] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Simplified Needs Assessments") [Ridley minute to MT conceals "important and complex implications"; Lawson agrees to oppose] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Michael Goldsmith letter to MT (GP budgets) [problems and practicalities of GP as bubget holder] [released Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 824 to UKMIS New York (1710Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 1988: on the Record Statement after the Vote") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Michael Miller MSS) Cold War: Programme for MT's farewell visit to Reagan at the White House (ceremonial arrival)
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Schedule for MT visit to White House (timings & participants) [declassified ?2000]

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).

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