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PDF 93 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Calculating the cost of ‘Black Wednesday’”) [methodology discussed] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Aug 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [$4.19b over 3 Aug 1992 - 1 Apr 1993] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [counterfactuals] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The ERM Project”) [lengthy analysis of decision to join & policy during membership] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [further comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Martin Mansergh) [urges British Government to remain "reasonably optimistic" as to PIRA response to Joint Declaration; Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (2205Z) ("Gerry Adams") [no decision yet on visa application, State & Speaker opposed, NSC keen to give 'constructive' response] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Gerry Adams") [disturbing conversation with NSC official] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake's secretary) [Adams visa - Sinn Fein stringing along British and Irish Governments in seeking clarification of Joint Declaration] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for Major ("Northern Ireland") [expectation that PIRA will not accept Joint Declaration and are preparing for increased violence; ways to pressurise Sinn Fein] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("USA/Gerry Adams") [seeks comment on draft letter from No.10 to National Security Adviser Tony Lake] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake) [talks between No.10 and White House over the weekend re: US visa for Gerry Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Northern Ireland meeting on 26 January") [advance notice of questions PM wants to explore] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to No.10 ("Gerry Adams") [Holl at NSC warning that Adams visa would be granted on terms unacceptable to UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 179 to FCO (2341Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Acting Secretary of State Tarnoff wanted visa idea dropped or granted only by agreement with UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary-US Ambassador) ["Northern Ireland: Visa for Gerry Adams" - Hurd warned against granting it without denunciation of violence; Seitz spoke of pressures on Clinton] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for PM ("Ministerial Meeting on Northern Ireland, 26 January") [includes summary of intelligence assessment, 19 Jan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (2055Z) ("Visa for Gerry Adams") [Hurd lobbied "a receptive Christopher" who said question not yet with the President] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 203 to FCO (1600Z) ("Gerry Adams") [dozen Senators signing letter to Clinton calling for visa; split recommendation with NSC favouring visa on conditions weaker than UK wants] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("Ministerial Meeting on Northern Ireland, 26 January") [action points, summary and corrections to record] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lake calls to Lyne) [White House decision to grant visa on conditions; agrees to modify conditions with involvement of State Dept; Adams to be invited to meet US Consul-General & urged to comply publicly] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hume calls Chilcot) [argues for Adams visa; views of Clinton and the "Derry people"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to No.10 Press Office ("Adams Visa") [State & NSC press line "singing from the same song sheet"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Mayhew calls Major) [tactics with Irish at IGC] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 231 to FCO (1800Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Tarnoff briefs UKA on Adams meeting with US Consul-General refusing to accept the conditions; Congressional criticism of the conditions, but State intended to stick by them] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 244 to FCO (2350Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["another battle royal" between State and NSC, which wants to grant one-day visa in response to Congressional pressure; recommends further call from Foreign Secretary to Secretary of State] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (Adams visa update) [NSC pushing back against State; "With luck, this will be past history soon"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("USA/Gerry Adams") [Adams refusing US conditions; draft British press line; "we should not strike a triumphalist tone"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 80 to UKE Washington (1423Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Visa issue - Hurd rang Christopher, who noted strong political pressure from Senators Mitchell, Kennedy & Moynihan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lake calls Lyne) ('Adams') [US "going back to Adams again" - "White House desperate to find in favour of Adams"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser (Gerry Adams visa) [sharing intelligence; four IRA bombs in Oxford Street; trusts US will not go back on its earlier decision] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Adams/USA: contingency press line") [for use "If Adams now weasels his way into the United States"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser (Adams visa) [US eyeball to eyeball with Adams; "could not believe that it would be democratic America which blinked. Surely you won't"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Gerry Adams") [given visa; Lyne "did not mince words with Lake when he was telephoned to be told of the decision"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Adams/USA: contingency press line") [small modification following conference call between Renwick, Lyne and Meyer] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to FCO ("Gerry Adams: reactions") [State "extremely disappointed", 'scathing' about White House statement; Holl of NSC "unapologetic about the decision", "could not be separated from the more general feeling that something was fraying in the relationship between the US and the UK"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 46 to FCO (1425Z) ("Northern Ireland") [Taoiseach says publicly he will clarify aspects of Joint Declaration but not renegotiate; generally positive press reactions to issue of US visa to Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to President Clinton on Adams visa) ["to show Clinton that he has reached the limits of our tolerance, and should not take us for granted"; Major - "Pl. refer Tuesday when I'm in a calmer mood over this"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to Taoiseach) [new material on Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [US decision lead item on British radio & tv; newspaper coverage; Adams "trumpeting the fact that he was NOT asked by the US to renounce violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [PM and Foreign Secretary "agreed that our tactic must be to put Adams on the spot, and expose his evasions as directly as we can"; two car bombs in London since visa granted] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 267 to FCO (0515Z) ("Foreign Secretary's call on National Security Adviser, Washington, 31 January") ["FS spells out bluntly our position on Adams. Lake chastened but unrepentant, still hoping that Adams might produce something"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Speech by Gerry Adams in New York, evening of 1 February") ["rumours in Washington that [he] may offer some form of conditional ceasefire"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [terrible UK press, Adams using "the finest platform ever granted to the IRA to justify terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [Major deciding against message to President; US Ambassador to call at No.10 instead] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (evening) (Lyne-Seitz) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [No.10 calls in US Ambassador Ray Seitz - "need to find constructive ways of rebalancing the situation", distancing Administration from Adams's statements] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (0040Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["Adams offers nothing new" - account of his NYC speech] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 294 to FCO (0450Z) ("President Clinton on Northern Ireland") ["rejected Adams' call to pressurize the British Government on Northern Ireland"; says proposal for a US envoy "overtaken by events"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [contrary to US thinking, Adams visa "relieved rather than increased pressure on the Provisionals to end violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]

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