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Text 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: Reagan letter to Thatcher (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) [unclassified]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT - US Ambassador) [Middle East, East-West relations, UK-US relationship, Grenada, Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Sir Antony Duff to Robert Armstrong (“Terrorism in The Middle East”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Arms sales to Argentina”) [UK dismayed by French lifting of restraints] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (“Privatisation and the Energy industries”) [proposed Bill] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Biffen letter to Jenkin (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...a matter of very considerable public concern... should be conveyed to the House by means of an Oral statement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, King, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Rees, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Patrick Mayhew, Lord Bellwin, Young, Armstrong) ["Work related training in the further education sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["need to approach the Russians about a UN presence in Beirut"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Assad (recent developments in the Middle East) ["I think it is important that we should explain our thinking to each other"; role of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Sir Austin Bide (intellectual property rights) ["I thought you would be interested to see the enclosed Green Paper"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker letter to MT (meeting with Chairman of the Electricity Council) [record of conversation about price increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Treasury Ministers: Membership at Lloyds") [request from Lawson for special dispensation in regard to procedure for conflicts of interest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Greenborough) [Chair of Review Body for nurses and professions allied to medicine: pay recommendations; management] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil") [announcement of contract cancellation, with implication of ensuing closure; "very little support from any part of the House"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Orr-Ewing, Kenneth Baker, Lord Mottistone, Bowen Wells MP) ["Liberalisation in Telecommunications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter MP (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage; "absolutely no evidence... that Gerhardt may have obtained or disclosed information from British sources on operations in the South Atlantic last year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to MT (Turkish occupation) [complaint of "a series of [recent] measures to consolidate and perpetuate"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas notes to MT (extract from Ford’s memoirs on Reagan, Falklands, etc) [“I didn’t take Reagan seriously”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Brittan-Biffen-Havers-Wakeham-Brennan-Armstrong-Goodall-Facer) ["Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [paper on possible policy options for Northern Ireland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Butler note to MT (thanks for Christmas party) ["It makes everyone in No.10 feel part of your extended family"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Reagan letter to MT (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Harrods IRA bomb) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Asaad of Syria (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Algeria: MT letter to President Benjedid of Algeria (UK-Algeria defence co-operation) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (thanks for gift of Belize stamp album) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei: Chinese Garrison”) [“it would be impossible to send troops without publicity”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [new Territories Council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei”) [Ji: “the first government of the SAR might be produced by consultation rather than election”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Ji Pengfei”) [“On detail, there were some signs of a disposition to compromise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [media arrangements for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield minute to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [programme and supporting brief for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem”) [“Kyprianou appearing to favour consultations under treaty of guarantee in parallel form”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0235Z) (“Commonwealth Action Group”) [“All the ministers are furious with Ramphal for dragging them to New York for no apparent purpose”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit minute to King (“Method of designating Assisted Areas”) [will need power to designate by reference to local authority wards] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) ["general picture more encouraging than in the last report"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Coles note to MT (Intervention of the West in the Gulf: Soviet reaction) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall minute to MT (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War (OD(EM) (83) 4”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [overview: background, main issues, measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [the importance of scientific changes in agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [situation overview and changes recommendation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Argentina-Portugal”) [conversation between UK Ambassador & President Soares: Soares meeting with Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina/Falklands: next steps with the Alfonsin Government”) [MT strongly disagrees with Howe] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Manpower Services Commission letter to King PS (White Paper on Training) [timing of publication] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3826 to FCO (0330Z) ("President Reagan's press conference, 20 December: Middle East") [summary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (Audit Commission) [cover note referring to an AC manual which "illustrates some of the horrors the AC has uncovered"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [Official Group (MISC 98) report & summary of key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Treasury ministers' membership at Lloyds; review and simplification of tax; names for Court of the Bank of England; bank taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Unisat") [summary of recent situation report correspondence (attached) from Brittan & Tebbit and of advice from Policy Unit rejecting under-writing of future costs, with which MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Brittan PS ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [rollback of protectionism; 1984 EC Budget/1983 refunds; Energy Council; Transport Council; Steel Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Seminar on Industry & Employment: Checklist of Conclusions) [MT "would be grateful if the Ministers indicated could take the action attributed to them"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Australia: HMS Invincible") [policy on disclosure of presence of nuclear weapons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [current state of play] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Sir John Greenborough") [complaint about briefing provided to MT: 3% public pay sector pay assumption] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin letter to Biffen (dog license legislation) [timing of Government statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (thanking for the message of congratulations) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Bridge letter to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [submission of Report: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Peking telegram 1387 to FCO (0600Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang") [Chinese government seeking to expedite pace of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Defence ("Leak Inquiry: Cruise Missiles") [DPP directs police to investigate and interview officials] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry (persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union) [request for message of support] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Presentation of Government Policy") [PQ reply clarifying Lord President's new responsibilities] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Robin Cook MP letter to Howe (ESPRIT) ["Whilst you are right to claim that funds could be made available without increasing "own resources" if the CAP could be brought under control, I see no reason why the go ahead for ESPRIT cannot now be given as one way of shifting the EEC's near exclusive concern with agriculture"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: TUC statement of guidance (“Trade Union political funds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT message to Reagan (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to President Mitterrand (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Turkey: Prime Minister Ozal of Turkey message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhao Ziyang”) [“the Chinese side were willing to discuss anything with us so long as their basic principles were not infringed”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“it would now be possible and necessar to expedite the pace of discussions so as to lead to agreement at an early date”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“Zhao said that one aspect of China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong would be China’s right to station troops there”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles letter to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [“the Prime Minister has noted from recent telegrams that the Chinese are reluctant to envisage progress towards democratic institutions in Hong Kong before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong observers’s paper (Sino-British talks) [as given to Chinese Government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [plan and draft statement for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield letter to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [MT to issue a written statement] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3827 to FCO (1516Z) (George Shultz’s visit) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Peter Tapsell letter handed to John Coles) [US deficit] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: Thatcher letter to Reagan (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) [unclassified]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (cost of publicising plans to abolish GLC) [Parliamentary answer] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1714 to FCO (1805Z) ("Lebanon: Secretary General's remarks") [proposal to replace Multinational Force with United Nations Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3852 to FCO (2306Z) ("Lebanon") [current US thinking] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [USSR opposed to UN intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolls-Royce: Saudi Arabia") ["writing to seek your urgent intervention... for an engine contract"; MT requests redraft of proposed message to Fahd] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute (internal): Parsons to Coles ("Last Words") [Gulf; Palestine; Lebanon; Hong Kong; Falklands; Belize/Caribbean; UK/American relations; East/West relations; nuclear] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [should look at objectives of a spending programme to see if "we can devote substantially less resources to it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Heseltine letter to No.10 (Government efficiency programme) [progress report on Ministry of Defence measures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("European Community: Transport issues") [update & proposed negotiating strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 minute to MT (Agreement between the Building Societies Association and the National House Building Council: exemption from Restrictive Trade Practices Act) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit to the Irish Republic by President Reagan") [advice from UK Ambassador not to discourage Reagan from accepting invitation - MT annotates agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees letter to Fowler (Social Sercurity expenditure) ["I am extremely put out by... yet another increase in your forecast"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [MT unconvinced by Tebbit's argument for early notification] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nationalised Industry References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC): 1984 Programme") [conclusions from ad hoc meeting chaired by Lawson on 21 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Post Office Industrial Action") [negotiations; bonus system as deterrent against strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]

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