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PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT speech signals tax cuts, hippies, law and order, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Caroline Ryder ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: 11-13 July 1986") [outline programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly") [Assembly is "behaving in a totally irresponsible manner" but dissolution is not intended to be permanent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly: OD Meeting at 10.30 on Monday 9 June") [decision on proposed dissolution, timing and presentation, Council of Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 511 to FCO (0830Z) ("Land Elections in Lower Saxony, 15 June") [narrow win for CDU/FDP a relief for coalition in Bonn] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0134) [Arms control - Reagan suggests Soviets might view SDI test] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 (meeting with German Federal Economics Minister and French Trade Minister) [advance notification to No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local government finance") ["Ministers at E(LA) have begun squaring up for the 1987-88 RSG Settlement. You might find it helpful to have a progress report"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for Home Secretary ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [Civil Contingencies Unit to consider lessons and "prepare appropriate new plans for the future"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van den Broek: 1600-1730 on 6 June") [Howe record of conversation] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: President Botha") [meeting with European Heads of Government proposed by Pik Botha; Howe reports on soundings with Genscher & Raimond: "neither liked the idea"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Lubbers, van den Broek) ["South Africa": further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“European Council, 26-27 June”) [the possible agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Community 1986 Budget”) [implications for the forthcoming UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: Social Security and DHSS Administration”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Northern Ireland Office minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [proposals for additional resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: OPCS”) [additional resources for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Baker-Whitelaw; MT-MacGregor) [education spending; introduction of GCSEs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute for Nicholas Edwards (“HMI Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1516 to FCO (1630Z) (“Geneva negotiations: new Soviet proposals”) [“for a ban on ASATS and a ban on the offensive use of defensive systems … such linkage would be bad news”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, US extradition, World Cup] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, general election, health, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Unwin minute to Roberts (“Remuneration of Legal Profession”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Radio") [results of experiment] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Lord Chancellor's PS letter to Charles Powell ("Australia Constitution Act") [advises against permanent loan of original to Australia] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van Den Broek: 6 June - Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa: Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["have agreed and signed their report"; their work at end, no recommendation for action; next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO Finance Division ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver") [cost of PM's reception] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Geneva Negotiations: Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (post-Chernobyl) ["the main task is to ensure that there should be no more nuclear accidents"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [comments on draft paper for cabinet committee: "Little if anything is said about the likely impact of measures on South Africa... the case for measures seems to depend primarily on the need to maintain our position in the Commonwealth, the Community and the Third World"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report; further measures; MT: "Front Line States... would in turn seek aid to compensate them, which we would be in no position to provide"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: ComGEP") [Eminent Persons Report: "general feeling in the Group was that they were being strung along... unlikely to be able to play any further role... very high risk of increased violence... need to prepare our position as thoroughly - and as quickly - as possible... [Howe] observes... before long we... [will] have exhausted the scope for minor, relatively painless measures"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Edwards minute for MacGregor (“1986 Interdepartmental PES”) [the Welsh Office additional bids] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon letter for MacGregor (Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) additional public expenditure bids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Paul Channon minute for Financial Secretary to the Treasury (“Privatisation of British Airways, British Airports Authority and Rolls-Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young minute to MT (“The Proposed National Council for Vocational Qualifications”) [MT: “horrified… a quango to end all quangos”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Channon letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Yardsticks for the success of budgeting in departments”) [MT request for measurable evaluation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [“The Peacock report on the BBC”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, caning, Austrian election, SOGAT conference, SDP] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (SDP/Alliance, South Africa, hippies, economy, pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Caroline Ryder minute to MT ("Your Visit to Canada: Hair") [draft programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: Concorde Flight on Friday 11 July") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to UN Secretary-General (draft framework agreement on Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Budapest telegram 123 to FCO (1447Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Hungary: 8-9 June") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 38 to FCO (1447Z) ("Mitterrand's Visit to Moscow") [] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler letter to Lord Young (‘Restart’ pilot scheme: cases of failure to comply) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Channon letter to Kenneth Clarke (“European Community: UK Initiative on Creating Conditions for Employment Growth”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO (MT discussion on Nimrod project) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Secretary-General of the Commonwealth letter to MT ("Mission to South Africa Report of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") ["the report leaves little doubt that... there will not have been adequate progress... the question arises as to what further measures Commonwealth governments will adopt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (negotiations) [preconditions for, process and nature of the negotiations: "unacceptable that violence or the threat of violence should be used as a bargaining counter"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report) [encloses conclusions; MT: "It is worse than I thought"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report: message from Chancellor Kohl) ["anxious to avoid any substantive reaction... until he had a chance to co-ordinate views with you"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe telegram to UKE The Hague (“Informal EC Foreign Ministers Weekend: Heemkerk, 8 June”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc (ad hoc meeting at 4.15 pm on Wednesday, 11 June)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Minister of State for Defence Procurement minute for MT (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Department of Health and Social Security letter to Department of Employment (picketing at Huyton local office) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Office of Manpower Economics letter to MT (“Review Body on Armed Forces Pay”) [recommendation from the Chairmen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: King memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 16 (Dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Zagladin: East/West relations”) [proposals for second summit, SALT II] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, Austria, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King PS minute to Charles Powell ("Northern Ireland Assembly") [draft statement announcing dissolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Assembly C(86) 16") [proposed dissolution, timing and presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Rodgers letter to Michael Havers (Joint Irish Courts) [membership of three-man courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The Widdicombe Report on the conduct of local authority business") ["...my proposals on handling on publication day and thereafter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": "brief discussion... of the Report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and how the Government should respond publicly to it"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the co-Chairmen of the Eminent Persons Group") ["The Group's report in effect recommends that sanctions should be applied... it seems evident that Mandela holds the key to the situation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Message to the Prime Minister") [cover letter only, referring to message from President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP: Background Papers for Members of the Cabinet") [conclusions of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons report on its work, and copies of correspondence between the Group and the South African government] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“European Community Budget”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker letter for MacGregor (Department of Education and Science additional bids for Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute to No.10 (“Royal Ordnance: Flotation”) [possible alternative courses] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute to No.10 (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: No.10 minute for MT (“Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute for MT (introduction of the GCSE examination) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to MacGregor (“TVEI extension”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to Lord Young (“TVEI Extension”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore minute to MT (“Engines for British Airways Boeing 747-400s”) [Rolls-Royce vs US bid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd minute to MT (“Peacock report”) [Committe maps out “ultimate goal of a completely unregulated market” outwith its terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour lead, Bob Geldof, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Remuneration of Lawyers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Willie Whitelaw (Community Radio) [proposals pose political problems] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 233 to FCO (0900Z) ("Greek Cypriot Response to the UN Secretary General") ['very negative letter'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1580 to FCO (2340Z) ("Geneva Negotiations: New Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa") [MT "inclined to think that she should send a further message to President Botha... to sound [him] out on the possibility of some progress between now and the meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government next September"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fraser, Obasanjo) ["Prime Minister's meeting with the co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on South Africa": analysis of the Group's failure and assessment of South Africa's future; MT of the opinion that Mandela's release would be key to a breakthrough] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group letter to Shultz (further sanctions against South Africa) ["[our] report will be released today... we are not dealing with a government which wishes to negotiate"; the Group's view on necessary further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Howe, Jopling) [European Community budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards letter to Peter Morrison (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 23rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Assembly) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL Vienna telegram to FCO (“ Warsaw pact summit”) [“It is unrealistic to try to make agreement in MBFR a pre-condition for movement to the larger forum”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Brighton trial, law and order, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 499 to FCO (0915Z) ("Land Elections in Lower Saxony, 15 June") [important test for the coalition] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 737 to FCO (1630Z) ("Shevardnadze's visit to London") [Cartledge, Shevardnadze: record of conversation: proposed dates] [released Dec 2016]

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