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PDF 86 Oct 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Trade and Industry (“Westland: Sunday Times interest”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Tebbit PS (World TV service) [ITN opposition to BBC plans] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD record of conversation (Younger, Weinberger) [US/Soviet arms control talks in Reykjavik, CW arms control, Glenn/Traficant, tracked Rapier] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Michael Butler letter to MT (European Monetary System) ["it would be both good economics and good politics to join the exchange rate mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Framework of Duties and Offences") [registration officers, legal aid, penalties] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to MT (markets at 1950) [pound and dollar have weakened] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Meeting with the Prime Minister") [group is in an "exceptionally difficult position"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-MacGregor-Armstrong) [Scotland, social security, health, overseas aid, electricity] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Armstrong minute for MT (“AIDS”) [seriousness of issue; urges senior ministerial group to drive policy; MT agrees] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: VAT on Small and Medium Sized Businesses”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, BGC Board pay, teachers’ pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Academic Tenure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015]
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 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2415 to FCO (1925Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (situation in schools, industry, unemployment, BBC) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (70th anniversary of the Cabinet Office) [article] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 minute to MT (“The Motion for the Westland Debate”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (“Project Reporting”) [Ministry of Defence] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Nigel Wicks (World TV service) [ITN's views on BBC proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 2693 to FCO (1445Z) ("FRG/South Africa") [Kohl-Shultz discussion of South Africa, "need for the west to do something"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1240 to FCO (1140Z) ("Danish Prime Minister's Meeting with Gorbachev") [Danish Ambassador's record of conversation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Channon letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Quality Counts”) [improving competitiveness of British industry and commerce] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Peter Brooke letter to Kenneth Clarke (“EC Employment Initiative”) [request to be kept informed and consulted on draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Warry minute for MT ("Nimrod or AWAC") [GEC's technical competence, comparison of AWAC against Nimrod, stretch capability] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: UK/US Exchange") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley briefing for MT ("Planning: the Sainsbury Group") ["I am writing now to report progress on items raised at your last meeting with the Group on 30 April and to comment on other topics that you or the Group may wish to discuss"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to MT (intervention figures) [starting point has changed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Overseas Aid (Meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe at 4pm on Thursday, 23 October") [encourage the group to put counter arguments to Howe] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Education Reform”) [MT declines discussion of paper in presence of officials] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (teachers&rsdquo; strike, BBC libel case, east-west) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Defence Committee letter (“Information for the Press: for Immediate Release”) [Government response to Westland report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs briefing for MT (“Meeting on 24 October at 9.00 AM”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cable Authority letter to MT (Peacock Report) [response to recommendations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 895 to FCO (1530Z) ("Press Comment on Kohl's Visit to Washington") [Kohl "portrayed as speaking authoritatively on Reykjavik subjects"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: DTI minute to Treasury ("ATP: Cyprus") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute MT (Yuri Orlov, human rights activist, visit to UK) [endorses Lord Bethell's advice that MT meet Orlov] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Howe minute to Kenneth Clarke (“EC: Employment Initiative”) [“tabling our draft resolution if possible with the Irish, Italians and Danes as co-sponsors”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control: UK/US Exchange") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2703 to FCO (2300Z) ("Post-Reykjavik Arms Control Discussions") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley briefing for MT ("Planning: the Sainsbury Group") [points to note from a private meeting with the Group in advance of its latest meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting on 27 October with Sir John Sainsbury's Group") ["...the Committee and DoE now report back to you on its proposals to simplify, clarify and expedite Town and Country Planning Law..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant and rate-capping: total expenditure") [John Moore: "It is obviously deporable that we have yet again to be contemplating emergency retrospective legislation on the rate support grant system. The sooner that simpler arrangements... are put in place, the better"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UN Security Council: Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "We know how very important this issue is to the President... We don't want this issue to mar your visit"; MT inclined to UK abstaining from vote] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Jonathan Davidson letter to Bernard Ingham ("Foundation for the cohesion of the West") [first foundation likely to be established in Britain] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill") [water and sewerage] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber, Taking Stock") [key outstanding issues] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (foreign and domestic money markets report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Selbourne Affair”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Academic Tenure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, teachers’ dipsute) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1243 to FCO (0745Z) (“Expulsion of US diplomats from the Soviet Union and measures to restrict US Embassy activities”) [five declared persona non grata, all locally employed staff to be withdrawn] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1245 to FCO (1200Z) (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory support up, NUT strike, local government, BBC libel case) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“The Scrutiny Programme”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department instructions to Paris Embassy (conventional arms control) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("BBC") [proposal to transfer control of BBC] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [fitting in Chirac; date, timings] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 900 to FCO (1535Z) ("Kohl's Visit to Washington") [Kohl took a firm line on nuclear disarmament] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Julian Amery MP letter for MT (lunch for Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1843 to UKE Washington (1605Z) (Geneva negotiations) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2710 to FCO (0200Z) ("Geneva NST: Developments since Reykjavik") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2715 to FCO (2100Z) ("Geneva NST") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Brian Griffiths minute ("Strategy Group. Bias at the BBC") ​​​​​​​["Is it advantageous for the Chairman to launch a major attack?"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Nicaragua") [UN resolution on Inernational Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "The Foreign Secretary is reluctant to accept your view"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Appeals") [role of the courts] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to MT ("Options for Dealing with Incursions into the FICZ by Argentine Commercial Vessels and Naval Auxilaries") ["not very satisfactory"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("Falkland Islands Fisheries") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Star Chamber") [latest in the negotiations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers Duties and Conditions of Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Rifkind (“Teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to MacGregor (“Teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (racism case, social security, latest polls, BBC) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ministry of Defence briefing to No.10 (Westland debate) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Robin Ibbs, Kate Jenkins) [Efficiency Unit central scrutiny programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (earthquake) [request for aid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 2724 to FCO (1645Z) ("Chancellor Kohl's Visit to the US") [Reykjavik and arms control main issues, also discussed South Africa and Middle East] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Julian Amery MP letter to Howe (Amery-Denktash conversation in Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (“Mark’s wedding”) [“the media event of 1987”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services: 30 October 1986") [indexing licence fee, independent producers, radio policy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Bush to MT (arrangements to meet) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [debate timetable] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe (World TV service) [ITN should be allowed to tender] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (America's Cup) [competition off Western Australia] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Sixth Meeting: Monday 27th October 1986") ​​​​​​​[Queen's Speech and Autumn Statement] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Lord Young, Waldegrave, Howard, Hartley Booth, Sir John Sainsbury & colleagues) ["Planning: the Sainsbury Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind (rebate scheme) [possibility of fixing a ceiling on the level of charge for which rebates should be available] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to Cabinet Office ("Falklands Fisheries: Enforcement Implications") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks ("Public Expenditure") [concerned about issue of electricity prices] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Mark Addison ("Infrastructure Spending") [sector by sector figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Your Meeting with Ambassador Acland: Ocobert 28, 3:00 pm") [Acland conveying MT's view of Reykjavik; telegram of his 23 Oct conversation with Shultz] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Ingham minute for Willetts (“AIDS”) ["certainly a feeling abroad that the Government is doing too little … that the Prime Minister is acting as a break on educational publicity"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Willetts minute for Bearpark (“AIDS”) ["probably the most important public health issue this century"; measures to remove perception of failure to respond] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council: financing of the Community - increase in own resources”) [declassified 2014]

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