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PDF 84 Feb 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 94 to UKE Beirut (1230Z) ("Lebanon MNF") [phased redeployment of US marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 138 to FCO (0930Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Bahrain telegram 31 to FCO (0745Z) ("The Gulf and Lebanon") [Bahraini concerns about US/UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Muldoon) [elections, NZ/EC trade relations, international trade, Gulf] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKE Washington telegram 50 to FCO (0230Z) ("Sir Robert Muldoon's Call: Sheepmeat and Butter") [talks with France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Nairobi telegram 312 to FCO (1300Z) ("Spring Box [sic] Tour of New Zealand") [alleged violation of the Gleneagles agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("BGC Corporate Plan") [financial targets; privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("The Legislative Programme") [gas privatisation; private rented housing; Scottish Law Bills; Public Transport Bill; Pollution Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT (Lord Thomas: invitations to visit Russia and Argentina) [MT approves of visit to Russia] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Special Operations: Mr Julian Amery MP") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transport: Spanish PM González letter to MT (aerospace consortium) [impact on technology in Spanish industry, will make final decision soon] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT (call from Hugh Thomas: invited to round table discussion in Moscow & to visit Buenos Aires) [MT: Moscow visit a "good idea"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Prime Minister Papandreou (Hellenic Air Force) [sales pitch for Tornado: "We are in effect offering Greece partnership in a successful European enterprise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister Gonzalez letter to MT (British Aerospace and the 'RAPIER' low level air defence system) [reply to MT letter "in connection with... [BA's] offer to form a consortium with Spanish industry... we hope to be able to make a final decision soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister González letter to MT ('RAPIER' system: British Aerospace consortium with Spanish industry) [four competing bids from UK, US, West Germany/France and Italy: "we hope to be able to make a final decision soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: Tenth Report") ["plenty of scope to embarrass the Government... need to review both our policy and its presentation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [comments on Howe aide memoire to MT of 27th January] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("European Community expenditure and the control of UK public expenditure") ["joint [Lawson/Tebbit] proposal set out in the attached memorandum"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Emma Nicholson (meeting about women’s organisation) [apologies for non-attendance] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [minutes from Turnbull and Walker to MT also in file] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute to No.10 (bilateral with Monsieur Attali) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs)") [Heseltine and Howe suggest that HMG encourages US Administration to support controls on ASATs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute to MT ("Medium Term Financial Strategy") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [agrees Lawson's approach] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of President Pertini of Italy”) [“Citizen Pertini”] declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 588 to FCO (1935Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [Soviet diplomatic and military involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Escalation of the War in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram 337 to UKE Washington (1515Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [Western military involvement in the Gulf, contacts with Soviets] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Riyadh telegram 42 to FCO (0930Z) ("Lebanon") [Saudi reaction to Syrian rejection of peace proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 143 to FCO (1210Z) ("UN Force for Lebanon") ["Lebanon's position on the current proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (visit to the UK) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Gowrie letter to Biffen ("Updating of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") [procedure; amendments; draft explanatory note for amendments; paper on 1982 review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 ("Research Council Charters") ["the extent to which the Secretary of State is empowered to direct Research Councils' activities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note for file (background on Chernenko) [press cuttings, speeches] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Amery) ["Special Operations: Mr Julian Amery, M.P."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("PAC Ninth Report - Hamilton College") [criticism of Scottish Education Department for failing to follow procedures in the sale of the College] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: MT letter to Lord Bethell (Soviet Prisoners Captured by the Afghan Resistance) [two soldiers' applications for political asylum in UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Houston note to John Gummer (preparations checklist) [strategy, manifesto, information campaign, policies] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Conservative Research Department paper (“Conservative Strategy”) [“need to be ready to defend our policies against the attack of Opposition parties, and also to go on to the offensive”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) New Zealand: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks) [“delightful Dinner Party”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Athens ("Relations with Argentina") [negotitations about sovereignty over the Falkland Islands] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO (translation of "La Prensa" article of 19 February) ["recent proposals by Britain to find a solution to the problem of the Falklands based on the defence of her position as a colonial power"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Translation of La Nacion Article of 19 February 1984: Parliamentary Visit") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jenkin minute for MT ("Mount Pleasant Airfield: Falkland Islands Second Progress Report") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Ibbs minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [should not be a cosmetic exercise] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Lord King's meeting with the Prime Minister") [key issues/advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales: Quarter ending 31st December 1983") ["a real growth of over 20% against the corresponding figure for 1982"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("EC Expenditure Programmes and UK Public Expenditure Control") [main points for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("EC Budget: Contingency Plans") [strategy advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee agenda & paper (media weeks ahead) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson minute to MT ("Budget: Tax Reform") [extending VAT, savings and investment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter to No.10 (observations) [“existence of an “independent” Turkish-Cypriot State makes federation psychologically easier”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [meeting of personal representatives: &ldquo:A very fair degree of consensus on world economic prospects emerged”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (“Joint Circular on Sport and Recreation”) [need for consistency in approach to public and private sector] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future of the Crown Agents (OD(84) 5)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Funding”) [longer stock flopped, Bank "somewhat chastened"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKMIS New York telegram 182 to FCO (2359Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [UN diplomatic mission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 (""Times" article on NHS scrutinies") [context of publication; latest position on implementation of recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit: Robert Young minute to John Redwood ("BL") [corporate plan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Heseltine letter to Prior ("European Commission on Human Rights: Farrell v UK") [settlement negotiations: opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: Sir Henry Chilver letter to MT ("ACARD initiatives arising from the Seminar on Science, Technology and Industry, September 1983") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Sir Alistair Frame (maximising Britain's benefits from offshore gas) [comments on his paper proposing strategic gas supply collaboration with Norway & relaxing of the UK landing requirement for gas] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [comments on Peter Walker paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT (gas industry privatisation) [meeting with Peter Walker to discuss draft paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Jenkin ("Legislative Programme") [Recreational Gardening Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Debate on ACARD/ABRC Joint Chairmen's Report") [report on the main themes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office letter to Home Office (Mercury Licence) [national security concerns about granting licence to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Polygraph") [GCHQ pilot scheme: line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Teachers' Pay") [comments on Keith Joseph proposals for assessment/performance-related pay, and 1984 pay settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales)") [employees' contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [approves proposal to offer 3%; employee contributions to pensions; data and structural reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Paris telegram 221 to FCO (1035Z) ("Political Cooperation: Political Committee: 21/22 February 1984 Paris: Afghanistan: Soviet Prisoners") [applications for political asylum] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Prior minute to MT ("Shorts: corporate plan and privatisation") [required adjustments to balance sheet for current financial year; conversion of Government loan to equity in time to show on end-year balance; EFL for 84/85; the way forward] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Babcock: Pohang Steel Co.") [MT intercedes to ensure financial aid provided in support of securing contract] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John King) ["British Airways privatisation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Lane (Judicial Salary Structure) ["noted the points made in your letter... will be taken into account when Ministers... consider the recommendations of the [Top Salaries Review Body]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [budgetary discipline; financial guideline on agricultural spending; budget inequity; Spanish accession; Greenland; UK's 1983 budget refunds; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Keith Britto letter to John Wakeham (“Attitudes of Members of Parliament”) [ORC survey: “The Political Environment for Industry 1984”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (“Training for Jobs”) [correspondence between Rees and Joseph] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Budget: Tax Reform") ["It is right to shift the balance to taxing spending rather than earning...The direction is exciting. The only question is one of speed"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("The Budget") ["my reaction is that it is an economist's budget...should appeal to serious commentators...[creates] a host of losers, as well as gainers"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment note for record (meeting with Liverpool City Council) [“the Council was united in its determination to get what it wanted, if necessary by taking to the streets”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Timothy Raison PS letter to No.10 (“Crown Agents: statement to the House of Commons”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Ridley letter to Lawson (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [British Caledonian remittances blocked] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Stock Exchange Commissions”) ["a political triumph"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian President Pertini, FM Andreotti) [Lebanon, East-West relations, European Community issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: President Pertini’s toast at No.10 luncheon in his honour [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT toast to President Pertini at No.10 luncheon in his honour [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD to No.10 (Ships deployment in the Gulf area) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Baghdad to FCO (“Iraq-Iran”) [new Iranian offensive] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Common Agricultural Policy: Proposed Supplementary Levy on Milk”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: round 9: first day”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Brittan PS letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality etc”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Raison letter to Tebbit (Westland Helicopters) [cost negotiations/aid] [declassified Jan 2014]

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