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85 Aug 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT message to Prime Minister González ("French rail crash") [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT message to Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo (Spanish General Election) [congratulations, and references to recent coup d'état attempt & forthcoming accession to EC] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT message to Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo ("Spain and NATO") [formal accession] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Feb 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT message to Manuel Fraga ("Spain/NATO: possible Prime Ministerial message to Fraga") [effort to avert conservative Opposition's abstention from referendum, which might lead to "the unfortunate precedent that Spanish withdrawal from NATO would establish"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Jun 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT letter to Sir Henry Plumb (Prime Minister's meeting with Manuel Fraga, leader of Alianza Popular) [MT agrees to meeting, following A.P. "signing of an agreement in principle" with European Democratic Group signifying alliance of non-socialist parties in the European Assembly] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT letter to Prime Minister Suárez (Prime Minister of Spain's resignation) [MT warmly reciprocates Suarez' courtesy letter on his departure from office & commends his part in the prevention of the recently attempted coup d'état] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Aug 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT letter to Prime Minister González (Contadora Health Plan: international conference) [British participation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: MT letter to Marquess of Douro (King Carlos I's State visit to UK: invitation to address Parliament) [MT agrees to Marquess' suggestion] [declassified Jul 2016] |
83 Mar 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Spanish cars") [MT agrees to meeting to discuss how to address the tarriff imbalance between UK car exports to Spain and Spanish car imports to UK] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Mar 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Spain: High Level Visits") [scheduling/prioritising of respective visits by King Carlos, President Chadli & King Hassan II; Howe meetings with Moran re Gibraltar; MT visit to Madrid] [declassified Jul 2016] |
84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Spanish relations: greetings from King of Spain") [cover note reporting HM Ambassador meeting with King] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Jan 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: HM Ambassador Parsons letter to Carrington ("Annual Review from Spain for 1981") ["democracy... remains extant though it is still fragile"; NATO; EC; Gibraltar] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Sep 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: FCO telegram to UKE Belgrade ("UNGA General Debate: Gibraltar") [Perez-Llorca statement to UN: "obstacle to good relations between the UK and Spain"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Sep 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's talk with the Spanish Foreign Minister") [Lord Carrington, Pérez-Llorca: NATO; Gibraltar; EC] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's discussions with Mr. Haig: Spain and Gibraltar") [Carrington, Haig] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: FCO record of conversation ("Conversation with the Spanish Foreign Minister") [Carrington, Llorca: Gibraltar; Calvo-Sotelo visit to UK] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: FCO internal minute ("Spain: internal") [failed coup d'état] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Feb 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Department of Defence briefing for MT (meeting with the Spanish Minister of Defence) [Gibraltar; NATO/European Community membership] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Jul 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Senor Fraga") [co-operation between non-socialist parties in the European Assembly; European Council; NATO; terrorism; Gibraltar; Alianza Popular election prospects] [declassified Jul 2016] |
88 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Spain: Charles Powell briefing ("Visit to Spain: Interviews") [points to make: significance of MT's visit, British tourism, closer co-operation; Gibraltar will be a difficult issue] [released Jul 2018] |
81 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Chairman of Centre for Policy Studies letter to No.10 (attempted coup d'état & Spanish accession to NATO) ["Felipe González... [hailed MT as] more vigorous in support of Spanish democracy in its hour of trial than any other Western leader"; NATO; Cuba] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Centre for Policy Studies letter to MT ("Spain in NATO") ["if we do want this we should seek to do something about it soon"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Dec 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Spain/NATO/Gibraltar") [Spain to sign Protocol of Accession on 10th Dec; questions in Parliament & press anticipated; "lifting the restrictions on Gibraltar... [will not be] a condition of Britain's approval of Spain's entry to NATO" ] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 May 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Carrington minute to MT ("Spain/NATO") ["in the aftermath of the attempted coup d'etat, Sr Calvo Sotelo's government [intends] to accelerate the application for Spanish membership of NATO... might be possible to settle the Gibraltar impasse at the same time"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [N. Ireland; subsidised exports to Soviet Union; negotiations with Spain on duty quotas for car imports; impact of falling oil prices; Lome Convention; food aid; 1983 CAP price fixing; UK budget problem] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Sep 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: USE London minute for Wicks ("Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology") [Weinberger's white paper] [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKHC Ottawa to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister") [German unification; European security] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO (Gorbachev's decree on Lithuania) [declassified 2016] |
82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("Pipeline: Lifting of the Denial Orders against European Firms") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("Lithuanian Declaration of Independence") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("Lithuania: President Bush's Message to Gorbachev") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("Lithuania") [White House concerned that Moscow may be preparing military action] [declassified 2016] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East/West Economic Relations (Pipeline): Meeting of the Four") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline): Public Handling") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline): Lifting of US Sanctions") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [statement by President Reagan] [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [France is not party to the agreement announced in Washington] [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington to FCO ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Paris to FCO (gas pipeline & East/West trade: French position) [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Paris to FCO ("Meeting between the PUS and the Secretary-General of the Quai: East/West Economic Relations") [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Paris to FCO ("Gas Pipeline") [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to Powell (MT's meeting with Yeltsin) [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to Powell (MT's meeting with Yeltsin) [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to Powell ("Soviet Union: Political Scene") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO (the draft law establishing an executive presidency in USSR) [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("UK-Soviet Political Director Talks, 28 March: Bilateral Issues") [declassified 2016] |
85 Feb 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("The Soviet Union: New Presidency: Comment") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Union: The Central Committee Plenum: Update") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Union: The Central Committee Plenum: A Preliminary Assessment") ["important success for Gorbachev and perestroika (...) but should not be overrated"] [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Union: Central Committee Plenum: Discussion on Lithuania") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Studies in British Universities") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Internal: Law on Property Ownership") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Economy: Interview with Gorbachev's Economic Adviser") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Central Committee: 5 February") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Shevardnadze's Interview: Internal Aspects") [declassified 2016] |
82 Nov 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Shultz: Pipeline") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Presidential Council: Gorbachev Speech") [perestroika - the world's first large-scale peaceful revolution] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Message to Gorbachev") [Germany: internal situation, unification, NATO membership] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuanian Independence") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuania: Presidential Decree - Comment") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuania: Latest Reports") [communists loyal to Moscow seize party buildings] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuania: How Serious is the Crisis?") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuania: Deputy's Views") [Medvedev gloomy about prospects for dialogue with Moscow] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Lithuania") [Braithwaite talk with Laptev, chief editor of Izvestiya] [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("CPSU Plenum: Gorbachev's Opening Speech") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Congress of People's Deputies: President Gorbachev's Inaugural Speech: Foreign Policy") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Congress of People's Deputies: President Gorbachev's Inaugural Speech") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Central Committee Plenum: Speech by Medvedev") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Central Committee Plenum: Foreign Policy") [neither Bush nor Thatcher pays any attention to what people think of them (...) we need to stop feeding foreign countries to their benefit] [declassified 2016] |
89 Sep 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("PM's visit: Gorbachev's objectives") [significance of Western support for perestroika; UK expulsion of Soviet intelligence officers; international issues/Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2016] |
83 Aug 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Treasury minute to MT ("Security Export Controls") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Treasury minute to Cabinet Office (sale of Rolls Royce gas turbines to the Soviet Union) [declassified 2015] |
85 Mar 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Treasury minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
83 Oct 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Treasury minute for Coles ("COCOM: Computers") [declassified 2015] |
83 May 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Treasury letter for Coles (supply of oil and gas related equipment to the Soviet Union) [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: The "Shield" report (Soviet Union: political situation & events within the military system) [declassified 2016] |
84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Tebbit minute for Howe (COCOM: Successful Conclusion of List review) [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Tebbit minute for Heseltine ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
82 Dec 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Shultz message for Pym (East/West economic relations & Soviet transition to the post-Brezhnev era) [declassified 2015] |
82 Dec 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Shultz message for Pym (East-West economic relations: his European trip) [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Shultz letter to Foreign Ministers ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Secretary of Trade and Industry PS letter to Coles ("Sale of Rolls Royce Gas Turbines to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
83 Apr 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Rifkind minute for Sproat ("UK/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objectives") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ridley minute for MT (his visit to Poland and the USSR: contrasts between governments, economies and peoples) [declassified 2016] |
83 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Rees minute for Pym ("East-West Trade") [the forthcoming Williamsburg Summit: technology transfer] [declassified 2015] |
83 Apr 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Pym minute for Rees ("East-West Trade") [the forthcoming Williamsburg Summit: technology transfer] [declassified 2015] |
83 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Pym minute for Cockfield ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
82 Dec 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Pym message for Shultz (East-West economic relations) [declassified 2015] |
86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: President Reagan message for MT (East-West relations: lifting the Poland-related economic sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: President Reagan message for MT ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [declassified 2015] |
79 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: President Brezhnev letter to MT (military detente in Europe) [appeal against NATO plans for the deployment of nuclear missiles in Western Europe] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell telegram to UKE Moscow (MT's meeting with Yeltsin) [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell telegram to UKE Moscow (MT's meeting with Yeltsin) [declassified 2016] |
86 Nov 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT (draft message to Gorbachev) [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
89 Sep 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Stopover in Moscow") [subjects for discussion with Laverov - the Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Committee for Science & Technology] [declassified Dec 2016] |
89 Sep 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [follow-up actions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO (MT farewell meeting with Soviet Ambassador) [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO ("Visit of Mr. Yeltsin") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO ("Soviet Union") [arrangements for MT's telephone conversation with Gorbachev] [declassified 2016] |
87 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: Meeting with Soviet Ambassador") [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO ("Baltic Gold") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute to Cradock ("Your Visit to Moscow") [suggested themes to discuss with the Soviet leadership] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (telephone conversation with President Gorbachev: agenda) [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (Soviet Union: Gorbachev wishes to talk on the telephone "hot line") [declassified 2016] |
88 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: speaking note) [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: line to take) [Gorbachev's message: arms control, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
89 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (interview for Ogonyok) [urges her to leave theme of UK-Soviet relations till later interview; make this "racy and daring ... focussing much more in our politics and you personally"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
90 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Union") [arrangements for MT's telephone conversation with Gorbachev] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Studies in British Universities") [declassified 2016] |
89 Apr 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [Powell redrafts suggested FCO text to give more impressions and conclusions] [declassified Jul 2018] |
87 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador") [points to discuss: East-West relations; arms control; Middle East; human rights; Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Yeltsin") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Medvedev") [Central Committee meeting & reforms; Soviet attitude towards Germany] [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with HM Ambassador to Moscow") [German unification; Central Committee plenum] [declassified 2016] |
89 May 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Expulsion of members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies") [Whom to expel? When to act? How to do it? Should you write to Mr Gorbachev? Should we expel the Russians and Czechs together or separately?] [declassified Jul 2018] |
90 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Boris Yeltsin") [cancells meeting appointment with MT] [declassified 2016] |
89 Mar 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (MT-Director-General of the Security Service) [planned expulsion of Soviet and Czech spies - timing, tactics; MT favours "handling ... as discreetly as possible"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
89 Mar 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (CDP-Andrei Vavilov) ["He thought we underestimated Yeltsin, who was far from being a spent force"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
88 Jul 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: Soviet Party Conference, Gorbachev's visit to the United Kingdom) [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador) [the political and economic situation in the Soviet Union; Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") ["the background to the visit is unusually fraught"; Soviet domestic issues/Baltic states; Yeltsin; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; START; Germany; NATO; defence in Europe; arms control; MT meeting with Soviet military; CFE; CSCE summit; biological weapons; regional issues Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016] |
89 Mar 19 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [issues to be covered; his third visit to Britain, "we are seen as favoured"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
89 Sep 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [UK expulsion of KGB agents; key points to raise] [declassified Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Gorbachev") [Soviet domestic issues; Lithuania; Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; CSCE; biological weapons; Western aid; the nuclear deterrent; arms control; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016] |
89 Mar 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ponsonby minute to MT ("Gorbachev visit") [whether hats would be worn at Guildhall] [declassified Dec 2016] |
83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Parkinson minute for MT ("Security Export Controls") [declassified 2015] |
83 Oct 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Parkinson minute for MT ("COCOM List Review: Computers") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Paper by Soviet Military Studies Group SHAPE ("The use of Soviet armed forces in the Transcaucasus") [declassified 2016] |
83 Apr 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Norman Lamont minute for Rees ("East-West Trade") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT, President Gorbachev) [Lithuania & Soviet internal situation; German unification; international relations] [declassified 2016] |
90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Soviet Prime Minister Ryzhkov; MT, Professor Popov, Chairman of Moscow City Soviet) [the transition from socialism to a free market economy] [declassified Dec 2016] |
90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet views on German unification & NATO membership] [declassified 2016] |
86 Jul 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet economy, arms control, MT's visit to Washington, possible visit by Gorbachev, Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Kossov) [Gorbachev wishes to talk to MT on the telephone "hot line"] [declassified 2016] |
90 Jun 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet military leaders) [arms control; nuclear deterrence; Germany] [declassified Dec 2016] |
87 Nov 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Yeltsin's "notorious" speech; Gorbachev's visit to the UK & meeting with MT] [declassified Jul 2017] |
88 Jul 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet Party Conference] [declassified Jul 2017] |
88 Jul 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [possible visit of Mr. Gorbachev] [declassified Jul 2017] |
87 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [MT's forthcoming visit to the Soviet Union: agenda] [declassified Jul 2017] |
79 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [military detente & arms control; Anglo-Chinese relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
89 Jan 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [message from Gorbachev regarding his postponed visit] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Gorbachev's message: Tokyo Economic Summit, East-West relations, arms control, terrorism, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [farewell call: Anglo-Soviet relations, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
87 Aug 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [arms control, the Gulf, Afghanistan, bilateral relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
88 Jul 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Afghanistan: Soviet prisoners of war] [declassified Jul 2017] |
80 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador Lunkov) [situation in Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Medvedev) [German Unification; Central Committee Plenum] [declassified 2016] |
89 Dec 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Shevardnadze) [NATO; Eastern Europe; Germany; situation in the Soviet Union] [declassified Dec 2016] |
86 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Soviet Ambassador requesting a meeting with MT] [declassified Jul 2017] |
85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Channon, Luce, Hayhoe) [transfer of Carbon-Carbon technology to the USSR] [declassified 2015] |
89 Sep 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016] |
90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; the nuclear deterrent; CSCE; Lithuania; biological weapons; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; environmental issues; the transition from socialism to a free market economy; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016] |
90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Braithwaite) [German unification; Central Committee plenum] [declassified 2016] |
79 Sep 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 minute for MT (call by Soviet ambassador) [Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
89 Apr 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018] |
86 Nov 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT message to Gorbachev ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT message for President Reagan (East-West relations: lifting the Poland-related economic sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev (German unification & European security) [declassified 2016] |
88 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev ("Earthquake in Armenia ") [condolences; postponment of his visit to UK; welcomes proposed reductions in Soviet conventional forces and armaments] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (congratulations on his election as President of the USSR) [declassified 2016] |
82 Dec 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT letter to Commander Anthony Courtney (Security) [countering Soviet espionage] [declassified Aug 2013] |
81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT letter to Commander Anthony Courtney (Security) [countering Soviet espionage] [declassified Aug 2013] |
90 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT draft message to Gorbachev (congratulations on his election as President of the USSR) [declassified 2016] |
82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT draft message for President Reagan (East-West relations: Poland-related sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MOD minute to Department of Trade and Industry ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MOD minute for Coles ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MOD minute for Coles ("East/West Economic Relations") [declassified 2015] |
84 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Good minute for Coles ("Subsidised Food Exports to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
84 May 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food minute for Coles ("Subsidised Food Exports to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
82 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Lord Cockfield minute for Armstrong ("East-West Economic Relations") [declassified 2015] |
80 Feb 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 (letter to the Prime Minister from Commander Anthony Courtney: level of Soviet representation in the UK) [comments on proposals for countering risk of espionage] [declassified Aug 2013] |
90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Landsbergis letter to MT (restoration of independent Lithuania) [MT: better to wait a few days to reply] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Landsbergis letter to MT (restoration of independent Lithuania) [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Keith Joseph letter for Powell (the MARATHON team request for an urgent meeting of Ministers) [declassified 2016] |
83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Jenkin minute for Lord Cockfield ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
83 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Ian Stewart minute for MT ("COCOM - Computers") [declassified 2015] |
90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Hurd minute to UKE Dublin (Coreu telegram: UK position on Lithuania) [declassified 2016] |
89 May 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to Powell ("Soviet Expulsions") [Howe wants to publish names; MT: "This would be a betrayal of my undertaking to Gorbachev"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
85 Feb 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for Tebbit ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015] |
84 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for Tebbit ("COCOM: Successful Conclusion of List review") [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
83 Oct 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe minute for MT ("COCOM - Computers") [declassified 2015] |
83 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Howe letter for Lord Cockfield ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015] |
84 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("COCOM") [Howe's minute about the successful outcome] [declassified 2015] |
83 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Heseltine letter for Rees (East-West trade: implementation of COCOM measures) [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter for MT (British-Soviet dialogue; perestroika; situation Germany) [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter for MT (British-Soviet dialogue; perestroika; situation Germany) [declassified 2016] |
81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Foreign Secretary's PS record of conversation (Carrington, Popov) [arms control; British-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Washington ("Meeting of Summit Seven Political Directors: Soviet Union and Europe") [Baker-Shevardnadze meeting] [declassified 2016] |
83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Washington ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
82 Sep 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi (“Bilateral with US Secretary of State: pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
81 Apr 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow (Carrington meeting with Soviet Ambassador: arms control & British-Soviet relations) [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Powell ("Elections in Lithuania") [line to take] [declassified 2016] |
88 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Powell ("Afghanistan: Soviet Prisoners of War") [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 (Yeltsin's visit to London) [declassified 2016] |
80 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 (Soviet Ambassador farewell meeting with MT) [declassified Jul 2017] |
83 Aug 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 ("Security Export Controls") [declassified 2015] |
81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS (British-Soviet relations & exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [declassified Jul 2017] |
83 May 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute to Cabinet Office ("Supply of Oil and Gas Related Equipment to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (Soviet Ceilings: Soviet-British bilateral relations) [declassified 2016] |
86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (Lithuania's declaration of independence: reactions, impact, prospects) [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Soviet Union: Central Committee Plenum") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Request for Call on The Prime Minister by Mr Yeltsin") [declassified 2016] |
86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Message from the Prime Minister to President Gorbachev") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Lithuanian Independence") [Foreign Secretary shares MT's caution in reacting to the Lithuanians' declaration] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Food for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Call on The Prime Minister by Medvedev") [programme of the visit & personality note on Medvedev] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Baltic Gold") [declassified 2016] |
79 Sep 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for No.10 (call by Soviet ambassador) ["no reason for MT to receive Mr Lunkov"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
83 Apr 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO minute for Coles (Anglo/Soviet relations: possible visit to Moscow by Rifkind) [declassified 2015] |
86 Dec 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO message to UKE Moscow ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Mar 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (telephone conversation with President Gorbachev) [declassified 2016] |
88 Jul 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador: Soviet Party Conference) [declassified Jul 2017] |
79 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (call on the Prime Minister by the Soviet Ambassador) [Brezhnev's Berlin speech on military detente] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Farewell Call") ["important to use Popov's farewell calls to (...) establish ourselves in Soviet eyes as independent interlocutors with views of our own"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Call on the Prime Minister: 13 November") [arms control, Syria/terrorism, CSCE/human rights, UK-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
87 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: Meeting with Soviet Ambassador, 10 March") [declassified Jul 2017] |
83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade minute for Coles ("British/Soviet Joint Commission") [declassified 2015] |
83 May 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade minute for Coles ("British/Soviet Joint Commission") [declassified 2015] |
83 May 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade letter for Coles (supply of oil and gas related equipment to the Soviet Union) [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Pym ("UK/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objective") [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015] |
85 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015] |
85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR") [declassified 2015] |
85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015] |
85 Sep 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015] |
83 Nov 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles (COCOM - Computers: MT's reaction to Tebbit's letter) [declassified 2015] |
83 Oct 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles ("COCOM: Computers") [declassified 2015] |
83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: David Goodall minute for Coles ("Supply of Oil and Gas Related Equipment to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Powell ("Soviet Union - The Central Committee Plenum, 5-7 February") [declassified 2016] |
89 Mar 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Margaret Thatcher ("Gorbachev visit") [Soviet internal situation; East/West relations and arms control; regional issues; bilateral questions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
90 Feb 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Visit to Moscow") [German unification; Eastern Europe; arms control; China; internal policy] [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Soviet Union: The Executive Presidency") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Soviet Studies") [declassified 2016] |
90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for Powell ("Meeting of the New Estonian Parliament") [declassified 2016] |
90 Feb 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cradock minute for MT ("Visit to Moscow") [declassified 2016] |
83 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield minute for Sproat ("United Kingdom/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objectives") [declassified 2015] |
83 Feb 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield letter for Pym ("Gas Turbines for the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chris Donnelly minute ("The Tragedy of Centralism" by Alexandar Prokhanov) [testimony to the powerfull nationalist Russian sentiments which Gorbachev's policies have evoked] [declassified 2016] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chief Whip's PS letter to Robin Barden (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discussion with Soviet Ambassador: comments) [declassified Jul 2017] |
89 Feb 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Charles Powell to FCO ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [Soviet diplomat worried that Gorbachev would be meeting HMQ at Windsor Castle rather than Buckingham Palace; Powell "really urged him not to make an issue out of this"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster PS minute to FCO (British-Soviet exchanges of Parliamentary visits after Afghanistan invasion) [draft reply to Soviet Ambassador] [declassified Jul 2017] |
81 Dec 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of telephone conversation (Soviet Ambassador request to meet with MT) ["to receive the Soviet Ambassador would embarrass the Americans"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Francis Pym, Soviet Ambassador) [invasion of Afghanistan; British-Soviet relations; exchanges of Parliamentary visits] [declassified Jul 2017] |
85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Coles ("Sale of Rolls Royce Gas Turbines to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
83 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Cockfield ("UK/USSR Maritime Treaty: Negotiating Objectives") [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute for Armstrong ("Consarc (UK): Export of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the Soviet Union") [declassified 2015] |
85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Meeting of Ministers - 8 February at 9:45 am") [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Braithwaite minute for Powell (his next visit to London: meeting with MT) [declassified 2016] |
83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for MT ("Security Export Controls") [Note by the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Strategic Exports] [declassified 2015] |
83 Feb 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for MT ("East/West Economic Relations: Activity in COCOM Following the Ending of the Pipeline Dispute") [declassified 2015] |
83 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Coles ("Technology Transfer") [the Sunday Times article] [declassified 2015] |
85 Mar 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Butler (export licence for the carbon-carbon equipment) [declassified 2015] |
90 Feb 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Andrew Nurnberg letter to Powell (MT meeting with Yeltsin: arrangements) [declassified 2016] |
80 Aug 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Resignation of President Choi") ["clears the way for Chun's election as President... even the American were taken by surprise... business circles... resigned relief.... politicians, academics and students... in considerable disarray"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [internal political situation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Internal security situation") [risk to British nationals from civil unrest in Kwangju area] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Oct 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Prior PS letter to Pym PS (Skyvan contract) [MT, Pym and Cockfield intercede with S. Korean Foreign Minister on behalf of Shorts Ltd] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Feb 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Prime Minister Shin Yong Lho message to MT (appointment as Prime Minister) [message of thanks for MT congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT (visit to UK) [courtesy note on departure home] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT ("Nuclear power stations") [response to MT letter re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Oct 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (visit to South Korea) [invitation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Mar 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (President's inauguration) [acknowledgement of MT letter of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (nuclear power stations) [response to MT letter re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Sep 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (election to the Eleventh Presidency of the Republic of Korea) [response to MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
83 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (bombing in Rangoon) [letter of thanks for UK condolences & support] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Jan 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: President Choi Kyu Hah letter to MT (inauguration to the 10th Presidency) [acknowledgement of MT congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lho Shin-yong, Foreign Minister Lee Won-gyeong, Minister of Trade & Industry Kum Jin Ho, HM Ambassador) [UK contracts for Korean defence equipment; Korean infringement of UK industrial copyrights; Double Taxation Agreement; protectionism; democracy] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Chun Doo-hwan, HM Ambassador, Ambassador Kim) [strengthening trade links; Marconi/Ferranti contract; constitutional reform; N. Korea; Western solidarity in face of Soviet threat] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, President Chun Doo Hwan, Ambassador Spreckley, Ambassador Young Choo Kim) [strategic value of Korean peninsula in the Cold War; North Korea; Gorbachev; trade; sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system; Olympics] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, HM Ambassador, Committee of British Chamber of Commerce) [UK business making inroads against Japan and US; main barriers hindering British trade; Korean investment in UK; cultural exchanges] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister Lee Bum Suk, Ambassador Kang Young Hoon) [economic cooperation; internal situation; joint ventures in other countries] [declassified Jul 2016] |
79 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 minute to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016] |
84 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Visit by Alan Walters to Korea") [invitation from Korean Development Institute to deliver lectures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea: defence sales") [MT & President Chun Doo Hwan seek to push through sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Korea: High Level visits") [announcement of MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Aug 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to visit Korea") [MT agrees provisionally to short visit en route to or from Tokyo economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Aug 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: No.10 diary note (lunch for the Prime Minister of South Korea) [declassified Jul 2016] |
83 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to Prime Minister Chin Lee Chong ("New Korean Prime Minister") [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to President Chun Doo Hwan (Far East tour) [expression of regret that visit to S. Korea will not be possible and invitation to President to visit UK for centenary of UK/S.Korean diplomatic relations in 1983] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Aug 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT message to President Chun Doo Hwan ("Inauguration of President Chun") [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Sep 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Prime Minister Nam Duck-Woo (visit to UK) [MT intercedes on behalf of General Electric Company to help secure Seoul metro contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Dec 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (visit to South Korea) [formal acceptance of invitation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (President's inauguration) [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
83 Dec 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (bombing in Rangoon) [message of solidarity against act of terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Jun 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Choi Kyu Hah (Korea Electric Company contracts) [MT (reluctantly) makes plea for GEC to be awarded nuclear power station contracts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to President Choi Kyu Hah (inauguration to the 10th Presidency) [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (Seoul metro extension contract) [General Electric Company secure contract. Biffen: "a major success for GEC in what has traditionally been a Japanese sphere of influence"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: MT letter to Dr. Charles Phelps (industrial & academic exchange programme) [MT commends the project in advance of her visit to S. Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea: nuclear power stations") [response to MT letter to President re: GEC bid for turbines contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea: Kim Dae Jung") [MT approves EU joint representation against death sentence of Opposition leader] [declassified Jul 2016] |
80 Aug 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Korea") [MT draft message of congratulations on election of General Chun Doo Hwan to the Presidency: "we may deplore the suppression of opposition but we should also recognise that most Koreans appear to accept the need for authoritarian leadership"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Korea: speeches") [amendments] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea, 7-10 April") [bilateral meeting of economic policy officials] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Oct 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of Korea") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea") [comments on draft MT dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to the Republic of Korea: possible meetings with Opposition leaders") [suggested candidates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [draft replies to Yonhap News Agency questions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Aug 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("President Chun, Republic of Korea") [greetings to MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Nov 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by Korean Ambassador on Prime Minister") [Howe requests MT to accept call in advance of visit to UK by President Chun Doo Hwan and MT visit to S. Korea - "anxious to gain the maximum benefit to British commercial interests... but the Korean peninsula is also... a potential flash-point"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Gilmour PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo visit to UK) [draft note of welcome from MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Oct 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Foreign Minister of South Korea letter to MT (visit to UK) [letter of thanks for his reception] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("RoK/Antarctica") [South Korea's accession to Antarctic Treaty complicated by status of North Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
79 Dec 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO minute: McLaren to Cortazzi ("Korea: attempted militart coup?") [reported attack on the home of the Minister of National Defence] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan: 7-10 April") [announcement; programme; dinner; talks] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to the Republic of Korea") [overview, key points & briefing pack] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the Republic of Korea: 9 April") [British Council; Scotch whisky; publishing/recording copyright; Ferranti/Marconi contract] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on Prime Minister by Korean Foreign Minister, Mr Lee Bum Suk") [Presidential visit to UK; economic cooperation; internal situation; Tokyo economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Mr Chun Doo Hwan, President of the Republic of Korea on the Prime Minister, 9am, 9 April 1986") [points for discussion] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Crown Agents letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [Crown Agents' activities in Korea] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Korea") [key points for talks; lines to take for the press] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 26 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speeches in Korea") [MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit of the President of Korea") [recommended points for discussion and subjects to avoid] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Chun") [itinerary, arrangements & copy of Chun Doo Hwan dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Chairman of United Scientific Holdings letter to No.10 ("South Korea") [Alvis of Coventry commercial contract with Daewoo affected by UK pay dispute/trade union action] [declassified Jul 2016] |
86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to South Korea) [request for MT to convey thanks for Royal Opera being granted permission to visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Biffen minute to MT (Prime Minister's tour of the Far East) [proposed inclusion of S. Korea to boost trade links] [declassified Jul 2016] |
79 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Acting President Choi Kyu Hah letter to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [acknowledgement of MT condolences] [declassified Jul 2016] |
85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: White House Press Office Fact Sheet (“President’s decision on South African measures”) |
86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Walker minute to MT (sanctions against South Africa) ["we must not be seen to be afraid of trying to make further progress without sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 May 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | South Africa: USE Pretoria telegram to State Department ("Mandela reported 'furious' at top adviser for thwarting Thatcher meeting") [Mandela keen to to meet MT in London in mid-April, but blocked by ANC Executive] [leaked 2010] |
86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Prime Minister's message") [Derek Day record of conversation with Head of DEA Task Force on South Africa: exchange of views on the merits of Howe visit to southern Africa; further sanctions; next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Mulroney: 13 July: South Africa") [media reports] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Krugerrands: GATT aspects: Canada") ["have not... taken legislative measures... encouraged a voluntary ban... unlikely... to alter their current stance"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC New Delhi telegram to FCO ("Southern Africa: message from the Prime Minister") [delivery, and Indian reaction to European Council statement] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Nairobi telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group") [John Johnson record of conversation with General Obasanjo: "indebted to... [MT] who had done all she possibly could... commended [purported Howe mission to South Africa] but felt that it would be very difficult... felt that the EPG's work should not come to an end"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO (ANC statement) [outline of conditions to be presented to South African government] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO ("Zambia: Mr Healey's meeting with President Kaunda") [record of conversation; "Kaunda is in a dangerous mood... I therefore reiterate the need for you to see... [him] on your way back from South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Prime Minister's message") [William White record of conversation with Kaunda] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lagos telegram to Howe PS (Secretary of State's visit to Africa: meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister) ["would be happy to see you here in Lagos, however briefly"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("South Africa") [Martin Ewans record of conversation with General Obasanjo: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons; Mandela; European Council statement; Howe visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Mrs Chalker's meeting with President Mugabe: South Africa") [record of conversation: "discussed process of change in South Africa at some length"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jul 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("FLS meeting") [messages from Howe to delegations] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on the Group's meeting with Mugabe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Armed struggle in South Africa: Mugabe's speech") ["gave priority to armed struggle... [supported] sanctions... by the international community... even if it meant suffering"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Guyana letter to No.10 (Caribbean Community Declaration on South Africa) [adopted at the 7th meeting of the Heads of Government] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("South Africa") [reaction to European Council statement; "the press have strongly attacked the decision, and Britain's role in it"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") ["despite scepticism... that any measures short of economic sanctions are likely to influence the South African Government, we believe the Tanzanians are prepared to give it a try"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO ("Australian policy towards South Africa") [sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: reaction to de Klerk's Speech") ["Invitation to de Klerk likely to be only gesture possible in immediate future. The Administration will pursue the question of a suspension or modification of sanctions, but results will take time"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [US administration under mounting pressure from Congress to impose sanctions: "[should] be able to hold the line - as long as US allies were equally resolute"; Charles Powell annotation: "monstrous that the Foreign Office have not been following this line"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [report on current political context surrounding Reagan's anticipated response to South African raids] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [record of Chief Buthelezi's conversation with President Bush] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa") [proceedings in Congress; "the chances of an Administration concession have probably in fact increased"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("South Africa: US/UK consultations") [US stance on sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Secretary Baker") [Hurd, Baker record of conversation: lifting of sanctions in response to Mandela's release; inviting Mandela to US; G7; Angola] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jul 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversations (Howe, Shultz; Howe, Lugar) [US measures against South Africa; negotiations with South African Government; US investment in/withdrawal from South Africa; Commonwealth meeting; Congresional action; US ban on landing rights] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversation (Howe, Reagan, Shultz) [extradition treaty; South Africa: sanctions; Communist penetration of the ANC; Soviet Union/Gorbachev] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington letter to No.10 ("South African Minerals") ["significance for the Western industrialised world, and particularly the US"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: Presidency meeting with Pik Botha") [press statement: "grave concerns about developments in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKHC Lusaka and FCO ("SitRep: internal situation") [State of Emergency: latest incidents; detentions; schools; media; reform programme] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Mar 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [Tessa Solesby record of conversation with Lord Barber; MT interested in report of Groups' 'negotiating concept' proposal to S. African government] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [conversation with Lord Barber] [declassified Feb 2016] |
88 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to MT ("Sharpeville Six") [President Botha announces reprieve; "there is no doubt that the Prime Minister's intervention made a critical difference"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (Mandela) [analysis of his position, complex pressures upon him] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
85 Dec 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Visit of Lord Barber") [report on meeting with President Botha and Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Text of a Statement by State President P E Botha on 29 July 1986") [Howe visit to southern Africa: "I told Sir Geoffrey that I looked upon his recent speech in the House of Commons as nothing but a threat against our country... Leave South Africa to the South Africans"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("State of Emergency: sitrep") ["No relaxation of state of emergency in sight"; details] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Dec 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: freehold rights") ["If asked about this development you may wish to comment that we welcome the intention to allow black home owners to acquire freehold rights"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Dec 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Lesotho relations") [report on alleged ANC plans to launch armed attacks from Lesotho] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/France") ["France's "double role" on the sanctions issue"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [summary & quotes] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission: press reactions") [PW Botha invitations to black representatives to discuss power sharing] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's mission") ["I expect the Government will be expecting... Howe's arrival here sceptically coupled with... puzzlement as to what he may have to say to them"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Restrictions on press freedom") ["We expect to be pressed to comment on the new measures and to say what we shall do to support the freedom of the press"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of Western ambassadors' conversation with Mandela: "a very impressive performance... encouraging"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: release of political prisoners; negotiations with ANC; sanctions; US/Soviet Union] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Lusaka: personal for High Commissioner and Shipster) [analysis of current political situation] [declassified Dec 2018] |
86 Jul 19 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [update on the State of Emergency] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("EC Presidency Mission") [Winnie Mandela quoted as saying Nelson Mandela not willing to meet with Howe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["three points which could tip the balance into South African rejection of the EPG"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Call on South African Foreign Minister") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation: Botha's concerns regarding "renunciation of violence and protection of fundamental rights for minorities"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
88 Dec 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Anglo/German emissary to President Botha") [joint message from MT & Kohl; Mandela] [declassified Dec 2017] |
90 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO & Personal for UK High Commissioner Lusaka (Mandela) ["Mandela wants a negotiated outcome"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("South Africa") ["outline [of] the respective positions of the Quai, Elysee and Matignon"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French sanctions against South Africa") [possibility of being mooted at annual Franco-African summit and/or European Council; Franco/African trade] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation ("Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, 16 June 1986. South Africa") [Howe, EC Foreign Ministers: sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Alexandra funerals") [report on the service & attendance; "an atmosphere of extreme tension... and it may well be that violence will break out later today"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to FCO (Mandela) [Ambassador's conversation with Mandela in hospital; preparation for meeting with MT in July] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
86 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth African reactions to British policy on South Africa") [Commonwealth Games boycott] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO (message from the Presidents of the Cape Town Chambers of Commerce & Industries) ["deeply appreciate efforts by... your Government to resist current arguments for sanctions... extremely strong regional consensus for real reform"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [report on the thinking behind Pik Botha letter] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "began to bridle at... [implication] that the Group might not find a great deal of movement on the Government's part towards the ideas in their negotiating concept"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African raids: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Director General for Foreign Affairs] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: the current mood") ["Government's emergency measures have so far proved broadly successful... in the long run... will solve nothing... seem determined to do their own thing and damn the consequences"; Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Jan 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: reform") [expected key points of forthcoming de Klerk speech likely to announce imminent release of Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Pik Botha's meeting with EC ambassadors") [report outlining Botha's relayance of his government's concerns about West not following up on its pledges; discussion of key UK concerns about current situation] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Jan 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with the Finance Minister") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Defence issues; the need for de Klerk's forthcoming speech for the Opening of Parliament to address Mandela's release and negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
91 Apr 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with Mandela") [Mandela asked to see MT when she visited South Africa, though not all ANC would approve; asks would she see Treurnicht? right wing parties needed to be pressurised to join negotiations] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
90 Jan 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with de Klerk") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Hurd visit; de Klerk visit to UK; negotiations with political opponents; ANC violence; sanctions; use of the death penalty] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Mandela") [main points from Mandela's address to rally in Cape Town; reports of violence at the rally] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Feb 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: internal") ['state of emergency' situaton report: "It is clear that President Botha's speech at the opening of Parliament has made no difference to blacks among whom further unrest is expected"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: de Klerk's speech") [speech centering around release of Mandela: key points] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jun 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa internal") [situation report: "clamp down on the continuing violence... I believe we may have reached something of a watershed"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Representations to the SAG") [UKE statement to press, protesting S. African govt actions; attached record of conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Reactions to Government Reform Announcements") ["broad welcome from Whites to the Government's proposals for abolition of the pass laws and influx control. Blacks are generally sceptical"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Presidents Speech to Parliament") ["good but still not good enough"; advice on points to stress in UK response; "I continue to believe that the President's offer on Mandela should be taken seriously"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Nelson Mandela") [report on meeting of "two members of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party... with Nelson Mandela"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
86 Jun 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [assessment of the risk of South African goverment banning strategic mineral exports in retaliation for sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha record of conversation: "I said that it was the most depressing interview I had had with any Minister during my four and a half years as Ambassador, first in Israel and then in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Sisulu") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: sanctions; post-state of emergency constitution; education] [declassified Jul 2017] |
88 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with President Botha") [Robin Renwick record of conversation: Mandela; date of next Election; negotiations with opposition; Western attitudes; the Union Jack on the South African flag; sanctions] [declassified Nov 2016] |
90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [Ambassador Renwick, Mandela: Mandela unable to meet with Hurd; MT: "very disappointing"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Mandela") [Ambassador Renwick record of conversation with Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela: message from the Prime Minister and Chancellor Kohl") [congratulations on his imminent release; note of caution sounded regarding possibility that invitations to visit UK & Germany might be declined] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation with PW Botha: "in an agitated state... based on an inteview Mandela had given... [about potential] guerrilla attacks"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [report of Mandela press conference] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [record of conversation with Walter Sisulu: sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [de Klerk annoucement that Mandela about to be released] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's speech in Soweto") [apartheid; crime; education; violence; nationalisation; equality, accountable leadership & peaceful protest] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [text of UK Ambassador Renwick's message to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [Mandela press conference; P.W. Botha comments; report on violence & deaths in various parts of country; Kaunda statement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Ending of Pass Laws") [statement by Minister of Justice] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's visit to Britain") ["anxious" to meet with MT at earliest possible date] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's views") ["white domination, in whatever way it exists, must go"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's Speech: reactions") ["Reforms greeted enthusiastically. Buthelezi and elements of the PAG prepared to negotiate with the SAG forthwith. UDF arguing that not all conditions have yet been met"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "it was an assurance from the... [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons] rather than the ANC which the South African Government would be needing in regard to cessation of violence"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [schedule for visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on Group's meetings with Mandela & with Pik Botha, and forthcoming itinerary] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Feb 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Eminent Persons Group: report on progress of one week visit: "so far so good"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Mar 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: President Botha's forthcoming reply to MT; "prospects for a positive response to the Group's ideas rest on a knife edge"; proposal that Group defer meeting to maximise chances] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Mar 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("ComGEP: press leaks") [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; local press report on Group's meeting with Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Chancellor Kohl's views") [Ambassador Bullard record of conversation with Kohl: "ready to help at any time": MT annotation: "we must take up this offer"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
88 Sep 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Anglo-German emissary to President Botha") [preparation] [declassified Dec 2017] |
90 Jan 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKA Cape Town despatch to Hurd ("South Africa: Annual Review: 1989") ["A year of positive change"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (South Africa) ["recent developments.. and how the Twelve might react to them"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jul 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Tambo letter to Howe (Secretary of State's visit to South Africa) ["would be honoured to meet you, outside of... [the] context of your current mission"; MT inclined, in light of the stance taken by Tambo/ANC to Howe visit, not to offer an early meeting] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Statement by Dr Gerrit Viljoen (negotiations) [South African Minister of Constitutional Development & National Education: comments on contextual issues of sanctions; obstacles; debate & representation; political & economic idealogy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
85 Jun 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department telegram to US Embassies (update on negotiations) [declassified 1999] |
85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department memorandum to McFarlane (following up US measures) [declassified 1999] |
85 Oct 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: State Department memorandum to McFarlane (following up US measures) [declassified 1999] |
86 Jul 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (President Botha's letter to the Prime Minister) [cover note only, referring to an enclosed original copy of letter dated 1st July] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Chief Minister of Lebowa visit to London: 15-18 July 1986) ["In the circumstances we wondered whether the Prime Minister might wish to meet Dr Phatudi"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Sir Robert Crichton-Brown letter to Treasury (sanctions against South Africa) [analysis from Zimbabwe leaf tobacco company of effects on the Front Line States] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Sir James Cleminson of the Confederation of British Industry letter to MT (South Africa) [detailed situation assessment & likely effect of sanctions: "the black power struggle is frightening and the unions are a tool in it... [I] still believe sanctions to be wholly bad"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
83 Jun 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Shultz memo for Reagan (Angola, Namibia, apartheid) [declassified 1999] |
86 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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] |
86 Jun 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Robert Jackson MP letter to No.10 (sanctions against South Africa) [text of his speech in Parliamentary debate] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Action on sanctions following recent South African government initiatives") [case for restoring British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB) funding] [declassified Jul 2017] |
87 May 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Mozambique) [declassified 2000] |
86 Jun 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000] |
86 Feb 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Whitelaw, Malcolm Fraser: "[Fraser's] hunch was that the Group was likely to recommend further action - short of full-scale sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Silva letter to MT (sanctions) [constructive response on the way forward following Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Nakasone message to MT (aboliton of apartheid: measures against South Africa) ["Japan will be prepared to study possible ways of participating in... concerted efforts"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Mulroney letter to MT (The Commonwealth and further measures against apartheid in South Africa) [Mulroney message to Botha; Canada measures against & message to South African govt; "What is more important is that we have a significant and co-ordinated Commonwealth response to South Africa in August"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jan 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (Zimbabwe's relations with the ANC and South Africa) [angry response to perceived MT insinuation of Zimbabwean compliance in ANC attacks and "a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (the release of Nelson Mandela) ["until we see evidence of... genuine negotiations and the ending of apartheid it is premature to... dismantle our economic and other pressures on the... Government"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Jun 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (Chief Minister of Lebowa visit to London: 15-18 July 1986) ["regrettably, it must be recognised that the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative failed... we are now left with no alternative but to exert the most effective pressure we can... my Government will be considering additional measures"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (tour of African Frontline States) ["[has] reinforced my conviction that time is running out on a peaceful solution... in South Africa... [but] I am not pre-judging the results of [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's] endeavours"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Prime Minister Bhekimpi letter to MT ("Proposed sanctions against the Republic of South Africa") ["concerned by the threat to impose comprehensive economic sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (South Africa: sanctions and negotiations) ["I remain opposed to punitive sanctions... I accept your suggestion... of the importance of holding the line together... would be most interested in your views on what we might consider collectively with other countries who Pretoria respects"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Apr 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Mwinyi letter to MT (South Africa) [European Community Summit; sanctions; endorsement of Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group work; concerns about Howe visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jun 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (South African attack on UN High Commission for Refugees Camp) ["write to thank you... for your... sympathy and solidarity... following South Africa's wanton and unprovoked bombing"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (South Africa) ["your rejection of comprehensive sanctions is of great concern to me and my colleagues in this region... I do not believe that Geoffrey Howe's trip to South Africa can achieve anything"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President FW de Klerk message to MT (release of Mandela) ["thank you for your prompt reaction to the steps which I announced in my speech... There can surely no longer be any reasonable grounds on which South Africa should continue to be isolated by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President FW de Klerk Address to the South African Parliament (release of Mandela & the way forward for South Africa) ["negotiation the highest priority. The aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispensation in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
90 Feb 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President de Klerk letter to MT (removal of sanctions) ["I hope other will be prepared to follow your courageous stand"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
86 Apr 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: statement on South Africa) ["[a joint statement by] the Heads of Government... could provide momentum to current efforts to bring an end violence and facilitate negotiations"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jan 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) ["continuation of... violence... as a form of pressure in the negotiating process... need for Governments... publicly to denounce the ANC... certain countries in Southern Africa continue to harbour terrorists... South African security forces were left with no option"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and negotiations) ["The stand you have taken on sanctions is courageous... I note... you still refer to a 'suspension' of violence... it will be useful to have in depth discussions with Geoffrey Howe when we meet later this month"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and negotiations) ["appreciation for your opposition to... sanctions... I am ready to enter into negotiations with anyone who abandons violence as a means of achieving political objectives"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Dec 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; reform process/dialogue; policy towards Zimbabwe over recent landmine explosions ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
88 Mar 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (political reform) ["It is clear that, despite our exchanges, we hold differing views on the reality of South Africa today, and what is possible and desirable under prevailing circumstances"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
86 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Geoffrey Howe visit to southern Africa) ["pleased to note... will be laying particular emphasis on the need [for ANC] to abandon violence"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Group on South Africa) [text of Statement "embodying my Government's reactions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group: visit to South Africa) ["If not correctly... handled, this initiative could be damaging not only for South Africa but for the whole of the sub-continent"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
85 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 May 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["only a commitment to peace can result in negotiated settlements..."; "[it appears] if we do not accept... [the Group's] "possible negotiating concept" no further proposal will emanate from them... in the light of your own intransigence, I must assume [the Group's, likewise]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 'possible negotiating concept' and the cessation of violence) ["If... [we] could receive a definite assurance to the effect that violence would cease... [we] would be prepared to consider... the"possible negotiating concept" of the [CGEP]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Babangida letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [deems Howe diplomatic mission a failure; calls for further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
87 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT blocks UK Ambassador's proposed meeting with Botha] [declassified Nov 2016] |
88 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [comments on proposed draft reply] [declassified Nov 2016] |
86 Jul 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Interview with Graham Turner") [in present form article risks "exposing you to sharp criticism for dealing too vigorously with Southern African problems at a very sensitive moment", but Sunday Telegraph resisting changes; MT - interview "obtained on a FALSE BASIS"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
86 Jul 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute to Ingham ("South Africa") [press lines to take on outcome of Howe visit to South Africa & next steps; MT "very grateful" to Howe] [declassified Feb 2016] |
89 Jul 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Powell minute for MT (South Africa) [emissary from Pik Botha tells Powell of President Botha's first meeting with Nelson Mandela, "quite positive"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
86 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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] |
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