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PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 357 to FCO (2301Z) ("Cyprus") [text of UN Secretary-General's three points] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Li Kashing") [possible meeting with Hong Kong businessman accused of insider dealing] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter (Libya) [message to Lubbers; instructions for Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: UPI report (Libya) [reports from Washingon that Weinberger dissenting from Libyan attack; MT asked for permission to use FB-111s]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Drugs - Report and Action Needed”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Tebbit minute for Ridley (“Privatisation of the British Airports Authority”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Big Bang: a Progress Report”) [deregulation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Griffiths minute for MT ("The 1979 and 1983 Manifestoes") [comparison for Chequers strategy meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Shops Bill, Northern Ireland, Libya) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Fulham by-election, economy) [US fleet on battle alert] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Vernon Walters ("Special instructions for Presidential Emissary Walters") [request overflight for FB-111s flying from UK (request then cancelled but too late)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for Ibbs ("Nimrod") [MT not satisfied with the report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram 203 to FCO (0730Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary General's Request for Help") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Spanish PM Gonzalez letter to President Reagan (Libyan terrorism) ["I consider inappropriate the resorting to this type of war actions" (sic)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes on conversation (Chequers strategy meeting) ["Lost sense of direction. Economic success - not enough … Restore the faith - best defence"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to John Wakeham (thanks for dinner with whips) ["It was so relaxed but I felt we all learned from it more than any other and that we really are a winning team"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Edward du Cann (European Reform Group members) [EC budget, agricultural markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute for MT (“Economic Summit”) [meeting with Howe and Lawson; main topics of summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 947 to FCO (2340Z) ("Nuclear Testing: New US/Soviet Dialogue?") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Admiral Hill-Norton's Report on Warship Design") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [timing, venue and level of Group Review Meeting: Howe reluctant to delay beyond July; MT reluctant to be rushed at the expense of a worthwhile outcome] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 132 to FCO (0710Z) ("Cyprus") [British as an intermediary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [a possible message from MT to President Kyprianou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT message for President Kyprianou (1130Z) ("Cyprus") [the Secretary-General's initiative] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram 128 to UKE Athens (1130Z) ("Cyprus: MT message for Kyprianou") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou") [progress of the UN negotiations] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO draft telegram to UKE Athens (1130Z) ("Cyprus") [MT message to Kyprianou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram 183 to FCO (0820Z) ("Cyprus") [Kyprianou/Papandreou meeting: British influence] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 73 to FCO (1000Z) ("Kabul SitRep 8-14 April 1986") [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Michael Butler’s book about the working of the European Community) [includes critique of MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“How to get better schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to MacGregor (“Vocational Education and Training White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - Media highlights alleged request for use of British air bases”) [speculation MT denied request] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Demonstrations at Embassy London”) [opposition to US action in Libya] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Oakley meeting at FCO, April 14”) [UK government working on “convincing justification” for intervention] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: Chief Whip note (Shops Bill) [breakdown of ministerial views - opposed by majorities at all levels] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Official Committee on Research and Development") [individual proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for Channon ("E(RD)(86) 1st meeting, 17 April 1986") [Government funded research & development] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("The Calcutt Report") [Inquiry into allegations of improper treatment of servicemen charged under the Official Secrets Act: proposed date for publication of Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker briefing for MT ("Planning: the Sainsbury Group") ["...to let you know of progress since the last meeting on 10 December..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MOD minute to No.10 (Visit to London by the Yugoslav Minister of Defence) [MT will not be attending - "No way"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: George Young letter to Howe (International Conference Centre) [proposed catergories of organisations to be excluded from using the ICC] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa: CHOGM Accord - Krugerrands") [Howe in favour of legislative ban on imports; Channon's view "a legislative ban would be a clear breach of GATT" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: USE The Hague to State Department ("EC Foreign Ministers April 14 Statement on Terrorism") ["gravely concerned … the twelve underline the need for restraint on all sides"]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President "sincerely appreciates" MT's stand; ""we will do everything possible to help you"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to Egyptian President Mubarak (Libyan terrorism) [explains US action] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Baker (“EC Environmental Assessment Directive”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Nicholas Ridley minute for Financial Secretary to the Treasury (“Privatisation of the British Airways Authority, British Airways and Rolls Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Article in “Good Housekeeping””) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Education Bill: Amendments on Indoctrination”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [developments and prospects on the teachers dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 15th (Libya, Shops Bill) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Early morning radio and TV coverage of US bombing mission over Libya”) [difficult position of UK government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - British public and political reactions to US air strikes on Libya”) [Howe’s justification for US intervention] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Thatcher defends UK support for US strike”) [“Thatcher did not give Washington carte blanche”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 948 to FCO (0350Z) (“Libya crisis”) [text of Reagan broadcast] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 949 to FCO (0425Z) (“Libya crisis: Shultz/Weinberger press conference”) [“tolerance or appeasement of aggression has historically brought more aggression”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO briefing (“Colonel Quadhafi support for terrorism”) [“Quadhafi said that he would train, arm and protect Arab guerillas and other volunteers for ‘suicide and terrorist missions’”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your speech tomorrow (Wednesday)”) [concerns over Reagan “provoking Qadhafi” … “people are unconvinced about what precisely and how much the US action will achieve”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: US Information Service fact sheet (Libya) [US acting in self-defence, Reagan on US successes, questions and answers] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, law and order, economy) [Reagan attacks terrorist targets] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Schmidt letter to MT (Final Statement by the Interaction Council) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris to FCO (“French Aims at the Tokyo Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: MT letter to Prison Governors Branch (Prison Service) [funding & threat of industrial action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentine Trade Embargo") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Options in Responding to Soviet Violations") (NSPG 0131) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hurd minute to MT ("Hong Kong: Nationality Order in Council") [proposed response to requests from Hong Kong & proposed Parliamentary timetable for Order/debates] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("NSDD: Counter-Terrorist Operations against Libya") [targetting & additional planning] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President agrees with MT’s understanding of the situation] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Mr. Hawke’s Visit: the Agenda”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“1986 EC Budget”) [payments of non-VAT own resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: John MacGregor PS letter to Hurd PS (“Serious Fraud Organisation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Political Indoctrination in Schools”) [Lord President’s views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Socialist International condemns US attack”) [“urges the US to ‘provide the evidence’ supporting terrorist claims against Libya”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Anglo-Soviet relations so far unaffected by British support for US strikes on Libya”) [“Soviets have taken no action against the UK”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - further UK reaction”) [Conservatives have “closed ranks”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Shultz (“Briefing the British”) [“The British should not feel shortchanged on privately communicated technical information”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to White House (“Libya - Support from Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“She could hardly have been more resolute as an ally and a friend”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Local reaction to US attack on Libya”) [“Irish Arab Liberation organisation” threats to retaliate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Reaction in Scotland to US action against Libya”) [demonstrations outside consulate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein protests Libyan bombing”) [“call on the US administration to cease all such acts of aggression”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Vienna to State (“US strike against Libya: Austrian reaction”) [initial reactions not favourable] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 978 to FCO (2359Z) (“US/Libya”) [US administration is “immensely appreciative”; "future benefits for us"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT draft speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [government’s decision to support US military action, “taken in self-defence, against terrorist targets in Libya”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT notes for speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [evidence we have of Libyan complicity] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: No.10 minute (Tony Baldry phone call) [opinion in Upper Heyford on US military action] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Sunday trading) [only Canada, Israel, UK back US] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (“Value for Money Targets”) [“those fighting to improve efficiency still need all the support you and I can give them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: 4-6 May 1986”) [briefing arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Hurd minute to MT ("Possible industrial action by prison officers") [government strategy outline; Hurd statement to Parliament; Policy Unit analysis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC/MCCs") [MT offers Baker personal congratulations: "This has been a major achievement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor of the Falklands telegram to FCO ("By-Election in Camp Constituency") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Michael Howard minute to MT ("Access to Japanese financial markets") [note of visit to Far East, including meeting with Japanese Vice Minister for Finance to secure extension of reciprocal market opening measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("CABO Cable to PM Thatcher and Message from you to Bianco") ["disappointment and confusion over the exact policy of France towards Libya"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind letter to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to Treasury (Relationship of a unified fraud unit to Attorney General) [note by Solicitor General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham (political indoctrination in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 16th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Libya, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [prevention of industrial action worth the cost of a higher offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“I consider it important that Departments should be free to interpret the principles in the light of their own particular needs and circumstances”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (“Budgeting in Departments”) [“The Government does not want systems for their own sake or as window dressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Soviets low key in protest to Britain over support for US strikes in Libya”) [“a ‘routine, low key’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sierra Leone to State (“Unofficial GOSL reaction to Libyan situation”) [GOSL not likely to take a public position on the bombing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO situation report (“Libya: Sitrep No.7: 17 April 1986 (0630Z)”) [Tripoli, Gaddafi, European reactions, Libyans in UK, British hostages Beirut, Public Reaction, US evacuation Sudan] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to Conservative MPs (government position on Libyan crisis) [evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorism] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy) [party split 2-1 on US action] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKE Moscow ("UK/Soviet Arms Control Talks: Visit of Karpov") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[should signal interest in Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop of Armagh (negotiations in the wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement) [offer of assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (Police Federation for Northern Ireland) [Eldon Griffiths MP proposal that MT meet with the Federation; records of Ministerial conversations with the Federation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["...Government initiatives... which will have resource implications for local government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1004 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John MacGregor minute to Paul Channon ("Blank Tape Levy") [classification of receipts from levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Expo '86 Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver") [Princess Margaret's attendance at Royal Ballet] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 255 to FCO (0630Z) ("Mr Hawke's talks in Washington on Agricultural Commodities: Australian press reporting") [effects of a US-EC trade war] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 1016 to FCO (2359Z) ("Visit by Prime Minister of Australia") [agriculture, Libya, New Zealand] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with M. Chirac") [arrangements, timings] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (presentation of the Government's policies) ["guidelines... concerning notification to this office of the Prime Minister's engagements"] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Australian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling (“CAP price fixing 1986”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Police Update”) [release of dangerous psychopaths, crime prevention, proposed solution] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Dutch PM Ruud Lubbers letter for MT (international co-operation to fight drug trafficking) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Roskill Report: Unified Fraud Organisation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Service Pay”) [“considerable advantages in an agreed settlement of 6%, as opposed to a disagreed settlement of 5 2/3 per cent” ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Budgeting in Departments”) [draft of report’s proposed foreword by MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya: UK reaction III”) [British deaths in Beirut, Heathrow bomb attempt “fueled further controversy over the Libya raid”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Security Council: United Kingdom confirms it will vote ‘no’ on resolution on central MED”) [resolution condemning US action fails to recognize Libyan involvement in terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein/IRA attack US British, and Irish Governments and defend Gadaffi in more explicit terms than usual”) [adoption of “a more prominent apologist role on Libya than is ordinarily the case”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sofia to State (“Bulgarian demarche to Uk on Libyan situation”) [concern over use of British bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Beijing to State (“Chinese tilt toward Libya: Embassy Security issue”) [additional security for US missions and personnel] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Charlie Price (thanks for his letter) ["vital to stand up to terrorism even though the price can be very harsh, as the murder of the hostages has shown"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (action in Libya) [“Your courage and strength is a source of great inspiration to all of us”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya will dominate) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKDEL OECD Paris minute to FCO (text of the Communique issued at the end of the OECD Ministerial Council) [macro-economic policies, energy, technology, employment, agriculture, relations with developing countries, trade policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou of Cyprus letter to UN Secretary General (comments to the 'Draft Framework Agreement') [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Political Issues”) [MT found the draft statement “rather weak”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Japan: Monthly Economic Report - April 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Eldon Griffiths") [attacks on the RUC; Tom King keen to be present at meeting but Policy Unit advises against] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jopling letter to Baker ("Water privatisation: environmental protection") [White Paper: resolution of outstanding points of disagreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Reform in South Africa") [Howe flags up speech by Principal of University of Cape Town; No.10 notes speech to "depict an ideal and academic outcome rather than a practical one"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 147 to FCO (1030Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter for MT (the Cypriots' response to the Secretary-General's draft agreement) ['even conditional acceptance of those proposals would have irreparably prejudiced our position'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT ("Hong Kong: Nationality Order in Council") [comments on the presentation of the Government's decisions] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary, 22 April") [UK citizenship for Hong Kong businessmen; Sikh extremist activity] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [common agricultural policy, relations with the US, EC economic policy, East-West relations, trade with Japan, Australian economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [US actions against Lybia, New Zaeland ship visits, South Africa, South Pacific nuclear free zone] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [the common agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: Resolution of the European Parliament on Agricultural Prices”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Howe (“CAP Price Fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“CAP price fixing 1986”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Douglas Hurd (“Psychopaths and the Mental Health Act”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Whitelaw letter to Baker (“Implementation of the European Directive on Environmental Assessment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Morrison letter to Lynda Chalker (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [advises going with offer of 6%, given indications Unions will accept, despite initial 17% demand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Libya - further Irish reaction”) [Fianna Fail more critical, alleging military aggression] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Demonstration against US raid on Libya”) [number of protestors, police action] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Madrid to State (“International democrat union statement in support of US action in Libya”) [scourge of terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Notes on future speeches") [Libya raid changing defence debate to Labour advantage] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Dr David Owen (responds to his letter of 17 Apr) ["I reserved the position of the UK on any question of further action which might be more general or less clearly directed against terrrorism"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya dominates, Queen’s birthday] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Defence Committee letter to No.10 (Westland inquiry) [transcript of evidence] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (the forthcoming Tokyo Economic Summit: world economy, international monetary system) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Employment Select Committee Report on long term unemployment") ["... believes that the measures announced in the Budget offer a surer and more cost-effective way of providing help... than the Select Committee's proposals"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [Libya and IRA; security situation; Molyneaux/Paisley; Intergovernmental Conference; RUC] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for MT ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 219 to FCO (2245Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo") [clash with Royal Ballet opening night] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 403 to FCO (2101Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary-General's Initiative") [intends to play things in low key] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 150 to FCO (0830Z) (President Kyprianou letter for MT) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 152 to FCO (1130Z) ("UN Secretary General's Initiative") [position 'not as bad as it might have been'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (his visit to London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Strasbourg-Proofing”) [European policy on human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Lord Hailsham (“Financial Services Bill: SRO’s Liability for Damages”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Attorney General (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Solicitor General (measures against political indoctrination in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“London Times editorial on extradition treaty”) [political reaction to UK decision to allow US use of military bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Buenos Aires to State (“Demonstration at US stand - international book fair, Beunos Aires”) [three political groups identified as organisers] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, domestic politics, industry) [Europe finally acts on Libyan terrorism] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Baker (“Deregulation: Consultation under Article 15 of the GDO”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [briefing on economic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [MT-Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan meeting agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) [situation in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Biffen ("Company political donations (Government contractors)") ["... [why should we] recommend that Ministers should abstain in a vote on measures to which we are fundamentally opposed[?]"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Michael Meacher MP (Prime Minister's Questions) [transfer of Meacher PQs to Fowler] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Lydia Dunn (Nationality Order) [response to concerns raised by Legislative Council] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Stamp Duty") [outline of measures designed to allay concerns raised by the Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Agriculture Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: community affairs”) [international trade and markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, stamp duty, economic prospects, Civil Service pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lord Advocate letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designed Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Peter Hordern MP letter to Keith Joseph (need for extra resources in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to MacGregor (“Vocational Education and Training White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 14 (Land Rover (UK) Limited: Privatisation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Weinberger (“London press conference on Libya”) [“Thatcher urgently needs our help in convincing the UK public”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Labour’s new programme) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Japanese Personal Representative letter for Powell (Tokyo Economic Summit: programme) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1060 to FCO (0410Z) (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (US response to the Soviet record on compliance with arms control agreements) [her views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("Soviet Union: Nuclear Testing") [Soviet compliance with arms control agreements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eldon Griffiths) [role of the RUC in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Northern Ireland Office (Ulster Unionist Party: renomination to positions previously occupied on Select Committees and other bodies) [draft reply to Jim Molyneaux: "I do not believe the House would readily accept a situation where your members were prepared to serve on these Committees but not participate in the work of the Chamber itself"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Ending of Pass Laws") [statement by Minister of Justice] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons (Commonwealth Group's 'possible negotiating concept') ["if the South African Government does move along the lines suggested... and violence continues or increases... the Government may have no alternative but to take appropriate measures to control the violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo Vancouver") [engagements arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 447 to FCO (1200Z) ("Chirac's Visit to Chequers") [French economic policy, voting system, international relations and defence] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) [discussion of measures designed to allay concerns raised by the Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Baker (alternative uses of agricultural land and employment in the countryside) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: FCO minute to No.10 (“UN Financial Crisis”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Lang letter to Biffen (“EC Scrutiny Debate: Commission Communication and Draft Council Resolution Concerning a medium-term Community Programme on Equal Opportunities for Women (4118/86)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lord Hailsham letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: SROs Liability for Damages”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Chancellor’s Office record of conversation (Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Patrick Mayhew) [Education Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Education Bill: amendments re. political bias”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 17th (Wallis Simpson’s death, Prince Andrew’s marriage, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, British Leyland) [confidential annex on immigration controls at London Airport] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: State to USE London (“Deputy Secretary Whitehead’s meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe, April 18, 1986”) [“Howe said the UK had paid a high doemstic, politcal price for its action on Libya”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Paul Johnson (thanks for writing) ["a very difficult time for me … your booklet on the seven deadly sins of Terrorism most helpful … sapping the will of civilisation to resist"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, domestic politics) [“Reagan warns Libya that no-one can kill Americans and brag about it”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico letter to MT (Mexicana Air crash) [thanking MT for condolences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Toyko telegram to FCO ("Message to the Prime Minister from the Interaction Council") [Schmidt, Fukuda points] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [world economy, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: the Economic Situation in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("US Response to Soviet Non-Compliance in Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 minute to MT ("The Calcutt Report") [confusion over publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting on 30 April with Sir John Sainsbury's Group") ["Further to your [previous meetings]... the Committee and DoE now report back to you on its proposals to simplify, clarify and expedite Town and Country Planning law"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Special Development Order) ["... chances of guerrilla tactics by disgruntled government back benchers"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Channon PS letter to Howe PS ("600th anniversary of the Anglo/Portugese Treaty of Windsor") [attendance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with M Jacques Chirac: 26 April") [French domestic politics, Chirac's policies, Libya, east-west issues and arms control, bilateral issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Younger PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit of French Prime Minister: 26th April 1986") [bilateral defence contacts, European defence cooperation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Your Meeting with M. Chirac: European Community") [will see how far it is possible to continue "developing a common approach to Community problems"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing ("Hermes/HOTOL") [potential UK/France clash on funding for projects] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter to MT (his recent visit to the UK: bilateral relations) [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: MT letter to UN Secretary-General (UN financial difficulties) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 minute to MT (“Roskill”) [action against fraud] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Appraisal of Performance and Potential in the Senior Open Structure”) [paper on the proposed introduction of “more structured and formalised methods”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya raid, Tokyo Summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Duchess of Windsor death, Libya) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Value for Money Targets”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1093 to FCO (0001Z) (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Libya Sanctions and Other Points”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speeches in Korea") [MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [France's relations with New Zealand, defence cooperation, relations with US, EC issues, CAP, Middle East, arms control] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Nick Edwards letter to MT (reasoned response to raid on Tripoli) [his wife's critical letter; arguments for & against the raid; MT placed in "a horrendously difficult position"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Mr Nakasone’s Political Prospects”) [Japanese domestic policy, economy, terrorism, Libya] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson minute for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [focus on trade/protectionism & Japanese surplus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [draft reply to Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone’s letter to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell letter to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [MT disappointed with draft speaking note on economic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute for Armstrong (“Message from the Japanese Prime Minister”) [MT unable to see the Japanese Ambassador before her departure for Tokyo] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (arms control) ​​​​​​​["the Soviet Union has no intention to slacken the efforts to achieve a breakthrough"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor ("Handling of the 1986 public expenditure round") ["...consideration of individual local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Hill-Norton letter to MT ("Hull Forms for Warships") ["We have no doubt that the rejection of the merits of the short fat ship by the DSAC, and hence their conclusion, was unsound... We strongly recommend that our work should be examined, as a matter of urgency, by an independent committee..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [date of review conference; MT: "what really bothers me is that the EPG do not seem interested in getting the best results - only in forcing the pace"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (retained by TNA) [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (death of Kanellopoulos) [loss deeply felt by Greek people] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("State Visit by President von Weizsacker: Address to Parliament") [arrangements for address] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Privatisation: BA, BAA and Rolls Royce”) [MT keen to keep open January option for privatisation of BA or BAA] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Nicholas Ridley minute for Financial Secretary to theTreasury (“Privatisation of the British Airways Authority, British Airways and Rolls Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Lord Hailsham (“Financial Services Bill: SROs Liability for Damages”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Hordern MP (Provision for expenditure by local authorities on education) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Peter Kemp minute to Peter Brooke (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [“the object of the exercise - a peaceful settlement albeit at a rate which may appear high in some eyes - looks as though it will be produced”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 minute to MT (“Richard Holt MP”) [MT concurs with advice that No.10 should seek to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Department of Health & Social Security letter to Cabinet Office (“Managing a Government Department”) [Ken Stowe lecture to the Royal Society of Arts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, law and order, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya, Economic Summit, Northern Ireland] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [draft of the summit statement & draft telegram to President Chirac] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (the forthcoming Tokyo Economic Summit: economic issues & terrorism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (first meeting with Prime Minister Chirac) [France's relations with New Zealand] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Younger letter to Hurd (prison officers industrial action) [military assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Sainsbury Group meeting: 30 April") [cover note: key points] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Sainsbury meeting, 30 April - supplementary note") [delays in planning application appeals: "...in many ways [Sainsbury] says the system is worse than it has ever been..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Chernobyl nuclear accident") [call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs and demand information; IAEA requirements] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [internal political situation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Korea: speeches") [amendments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Northern Ireland Secretary") [meeting with Molyneaux and Paisley; Intergovernmental Conference; contingency plans for industrial disruption] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 162 to FCO (1350Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Kyprianou's Message to the Prime Minister") [MT not inclined to play as active a part as in the past in support of the Secretary-General's efforts] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Wakeham letter to Whitelaw ("Circulars from Ministers Relating to Government Policy") [procedure & the role of Government Whips] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan message for MT (the forthcoming Tokyo Summit: talks on terrorism and economic issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [meetings about the summit: terrorism, agriculture, expansion of G5] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Lang letter to Howe (“European Social Fund - position for 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Economic Summit, the markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Keith Joseph) [“How to get better schools”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1120 to FCO (2110Z) (“US/Soviet working level contacts”) [“Technical exchanges continue in a number of fields despite the hiatus in political contacts”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, Cabinet reshuffle) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Bonn to FCO (“The Five Institutes’ Spring Report”) [summary extract] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Norgrove minute for MT (Alan Walters' notes for the Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Powell minute for MT (“Economic Summit: Briefing Meeting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Speaking Note on Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“Japan: Terrorism”) [declaration drafting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Egyptian Proposal for Middle East Development Plan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Prime Minister’s Bilateral Meeting with President Reagan, Tokyo 4 May”) [arguments on EC/US relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe minute for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [UK line on summit topics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Powell letter to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [MT views on draft summit statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker, Lord Young, Lord Elton, Michael Howard, Hartley Booth, Sir John Sainsbury & colleagues) ["Planning: the Sainsbury Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Legislative Programme: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["... the programme will be a very heavy one for this stage of a Parliament"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Ambassador Zamyatin) [MT expresses great sympathy, regrets lack of information provided by Soviets] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Washington telegram 1127 to FCO (0830Z) ("Accident at nuclear power station at Chernobyl") [information available to US] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Chernobyl nuclear accident: Soviet response") [belated briefing at MFA from "high-powered trio"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: FCO telegram to UKE Warsaw ("Chernobyl") [prepared to help with evacuation of pregnant wives and young children of Embassy staff] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict: "it will be necessary for us publicly to endorse the court's findings... if Nicaragua then has recourse to the Security Council we are likely to be faced with a difficult voting decision"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") [MT agrees to prevent the diary disclousure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram 230 to FCO (1325Z) ("Cyprus/UN Secretary General's Initiative") [Turks back Denktash to the full] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General letter for Douglas Hurd (anonymity of rape victims from the time of complaint) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MacGregor letter to Peter Morrison (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (“European Social Fund Allocations in 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker letter to Peter Morrison (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Travelling expenses of spouses of senior Civil Servants”) [MT approves an end to trial monitoring period subject to ongoing review] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“Civil Service Pay and Running Costs”) [advised tactics for Cabinet meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 minute to Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt libel action) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 letter to Murdo Maclean (Richard Holt MP libel action) [“we are in essence rejecting a call for help from a Government backbencher”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, prison dispute) [“Worst nuclear accident in history”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for MT (Tokyo Summit: Soviet Nuclear Accident & International Terrorism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: US/European Community Trade Dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Agricultural Support and Protection”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Tied Aid Financing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Morupule Project”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1150 to FCO (2105Z) (“Tokyo Summit: Oil Stockbuilding”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (briefing meeting for Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("Prison officers' industrial action") [situation report & key issues for Whitelaw meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prison officers' industrial action) [Whitelaw, Hurd, Tom King, Lord Young, John MacGregor, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley, William Waldegrave and others] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[response to Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders and the North East") ["I now understand from BS themselves... that the statement planned for 14 May... is likely to reveal plans for redundancies of nearly 4,000... The occasion for this statement is a meeting on 14 May with the unions to begin wage negotiations..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons message to Pik Botha ("South Africa") [calling for "genuine negotiation along the lines envisaged in our negotiating concept"; forwarded to MT by Ramphal by telegram of 6 May] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Expo '86 in Vancouver") [programme issues due to Princess Margaret's determination to attend Royal Ballet] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: Howe minute to George Young ("Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre") [proposed catergories of organisations to be excluded from using the ICC] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Jim Prior letter to MT ("GEC") [Jim Prior & Lord Weinstock's request for a meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Howe "greatly doubts... consensus at the [Tokyo Economic] Summit in favour of a statement on the lines proposed by [President Botha]"; advises MT to wait until after Summit to reply to Botha; draft instructions to Moberly] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute for Ian Lang (“European Social Fund: 1986 Allocations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [European Convention of Human Rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl, prison dispute, private schools) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Second Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Property Repayment Services) [funding of major new works] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (Workfare) [MT request for report on feasibility of introducing a US-style system of compulsion to work or train in return for benefits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Tied Aid Financing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Samanala Wewa”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Maekawa Report: Japanese Government Follow-up”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Maekawa Report: Japanese Government Follow-up”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Tokyo Summit”) [IDA 8, Soviet nuclear accident] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: US draft (“Terrorism and the Summit Partners: Some Thoughts by the United States”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prison officers' dispute") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("Consultations on Planning Applications) ["...Sainsbury Group's concerns about the delay caused by the statutory consultations... and the somewhat unhelpful response that we have had from Lord Young"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Channon letter to Whitelaw ("British Shipbuilders: the next steps") ["... the BS Board feels very strongly... that they should brief the unions..., publicly announcing both the closures and the other major changes in employment practices when they open their negotiations on pay"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (updates) [prisons; nuclear accident; markets; Libya; plutonium; supplementary benefit and mortgage interest; ministerial visit] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") [Howe agrees to prevent the diary disclousure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("ComGEP Review Meeting") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Governments' efforts to agree an early date] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Agent Resettlement") [agent has disappeared, a high priority target for PIRA] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Hong Kong: Constitutional Development: Future Position of the Governor") [MT not persuaded by the case presented for considering the future position; inclined to await the eventual need to nominate successor to Youde] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MacGregor letter to Jopling (“Alternative Land Uses and Employment in the Countryside”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Budgeting in Government departments”) [“review shows that we need to look again at some of the basic mechanisms”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Prison dispute, Chernobyl,Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Michael Jopling letter to Howe (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Thomas, Giffard) [Tokyo Economic Summit: terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute for Thomas (Tokyo economic summit: representatives and arrangements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Chief Scientific Adviser) [avoid saying similar accident could not happen in UK] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Walter Marshall) ["without any doubt at all ... the biggest disaster the nuclear industry has had"; re-fueling of some British reactors "comparable in concept"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Armstrong minute for Powell ("Chernobyl: Nuclear Safety") [Japanese propose G7 should issue statement; likely to be on lines we wish] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Policy Unit briefing document (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Soviet Nuclear Accident”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: General Declaration”) [final draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“South Africa: Handling of P W Botha’s Request for a Statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Shultz) [arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Japanese Personal Representative Teshima letter to Armstrong (the forthcoming dinner with MT: statement on the safety of nuclear installations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 minute to MT ("Cabinet: 26 June") [clash with MT flight plan for European Council at The Hague] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Political Declarations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“G5/G7”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (Admiral Poindexter-Charles Powell) [the Chernobyl nuclear accident, SDI, nuclear deterrent, Libya] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to Powell (“Draft Declaration on International Terrorism”) [statements on international terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: speech") ["...the Prime Minister's stock is very high here... I think [MT] should seek to stretch the limits of what Israelis regard as 'thinkable'"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 message to MT's party in Tokyo ("Radioactive Milk"; radio interview with Chief Scientific Adviser) [Sellafield readings; radiation levels in milk declining] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [brief bilateral on GATT round, EC budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations; Kohl - "Gorbachev was in deep trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Lord Young (promoting enterprise and employment) [proposed new budget measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan) [Economic Summit, bilateral matters, Japanese economic policy, Japan/United Kingdom trade relations, IDA, Economic Summit Seven] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference; Radio and TV”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT notes (“Actions against Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Home Office briefing for MT ("Prisons: Wednesday 7 May, 4.30pm") [prison officers' dispute: "For years, firm management in the prison service has been lacking..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Prison Officers' Dispute situation report") ["...talks to take place with the Home Office... the situation in the prisons has stabilised."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Prison Officers' Dispute") [prison riots; emergency legislation; union talks with Home Secretary; independent inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prisons - your meeting with the Home Secretary") ["Your meeting on Wednesday 7 May could authorise progressive changes in the workings of prisons for the next twenty years, or condemn them to a continuation of the present archaic and corrupt system."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Nuclear accident in Chernobyl: round up of Soviet statements and comment") [Powell notes: "poor Soviet performance on their obligations"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Monitoring of Milk, Water Supplies, Air etc; Interdepartmental Coordination] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Attorney General's Secretary minute for Howe ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") [Younger would be justified in seeking to prevent the diary disclousure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons letter to MT (bilateral exchanges) ["planning to return to Cape Town next week... We are concerned about [news of] bilateral exchanges with the South African Government at this time"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [1985 operating loss attributed to excessive pay rises] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker letter to Jopling (alternative uses of agricultural land and rural employment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (G7 Summit, Libya, Chernobyl, top salaries) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Immediate Reactions in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute to FCO (“Economic Summit: Statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1218 to FCO (2200Z) ("Geneva Nuclear and Space Negotiations: Round V") [usual uncertainty about Soviet intentions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tom King, John MacGregor, Lord Young, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley and others) [prison officers' dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["With privatisation... completed... The preferred BS scenario is now to slim down... This is sure to create both a political and a trade union row... We recommend that the BS proposals be accepted and that David Young comes forward urgently with his measures to help support the North East"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Young minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: the next steps") ["... impending redundancies... need for us to consider the action that we should take to offset the effects on the worst hit areas of the North East"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["... main issue is whether there is any case for seeking to delay or influence... the proposed announcement by... (BS)... of their intention to close three yards; whether the Government should announce an employment initiative to ameliorate the effects on the North East; and if so, how it should be financed"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Hull Forms for Warships: Lord Hill-Norton's Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Report of the Privileges Committee") ["... leak of the draft Report of the Environment Committee on Radioactive Waste... It is a rather odd principle that a journalist should be punished and the leaker should go free... But, however cogent Bernard's arguments, Government members must be seen to vote in favour of the report, given that the Lord Privy Seal is the Chairman and the Attorney General is a member"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Ingham minute for MT ("Post Chernobyl Presentation") [impression of buck-passing] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Interdepartmental Coordination - Department of the Environment resisting lead role] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Soviet Ambassador letter to Ingham (Moscow press conference transcript) [rejects reproach from G7] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for No.10 ("Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Incident") [proposed study by Chief Scientists] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Treasury Solicitor minute for Howe ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [outcome of the hearing of the Summons issued by the Observer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 252 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86 in Vancouver") [arrangements for Royal Ballet performance] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit: Autumn 1986") [possible dates, French hosting, best before December European Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: MT letter for Dutch PM Ruud Lubbers (international co-operation to fight drug trafficking) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon PS briefing for No.10 (“Big Bang”) [Financial Services Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of General Dental Practitioners’ Association letter to MT (Review Bodies pay awards) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Pay Review Body Reports 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“my Department has already gone a long way towards developing the sort of systems envisaged”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Chernobyl, prison officers’ dispute] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rifkind letter to Howe (Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (Paper for E(LF) meeting: 'Local Government finance studies: Scotland: proposed grant arrangements') ["...changes to the grant distribution arrangements needed with the introduction of a community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Hull Forms for Warships) ["... Lord Hill-Norton's report... which is very prejudiced, contains nothing new... the suggestions of impropriety... are properly a matter for the courts... principal recommendation... that an... inquiry should be established... We have nothing to hide..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Energy Secretary Peter Walker) [MT rejects Walker's proposal to visit Moscow for briefing from Soviets] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: MT letter to Walter Marshall (thanks for his letter briefing her on the disaster) ["a real gem, full of insight and wisdom and so invaluble for our briefing for the Summit"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Declarations by Candidates in Northern Ireland Elections") [consultation on proposal that candidates take an oath to neither support nor assist activities of proscribed organisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 461 to FCO (0015Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary-General's Initiative") [intends to treat Kyprianou's response as a bluff and seek to call it] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [MT not ready to support any more of the Secretary-General's deadlines] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lambeth Palace letter to No.10 (Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon for Industry Year 1986) [text of sermon; plus DTI briefing on Industry Year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: Prospects for the Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure: Meeting at 9.30 am on Friday, 9 May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Roskill Report”) [serious fraud: Government action on report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Tebbit, Clarke, MacGregor, Wakeham, Luce, Hayhoe) [review body on pay increases: reports] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill”) [crime prevention, freedom of speech in higher education, political indoctrination in school] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl fears, local elections/by-elections, unions, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Development of the Property Repayment System”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Workfare”) [“someone can now carry on receiving benefit as unemployed without ever having to go near a job centre”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Provided by the Armed Forces”) [MOD article on benefits for the wider economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar (Tokyo Economic Summit: international terrorism, the developing countries, trade protectionism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letter from UN Secretary General: draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Booth minute for Powell (“Extradition and Tokyo”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Chun Doo Hwan of Republic of Korea letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: the unification of Korea) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 note to MT (prison officers' dispute: PA review) [MT request for report; No.10: "Appendix 9 hints at the abuses."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Peres 'Marshall Plan'") ["...Peres is sincere in his belief that a major rescue act is required to prevent further economic collapse in the region, the consequence of which could... bring war closer..."; MT visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General minute to Younger ("The Calcutt Report") ["...apparent inconsistency..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Local authority spending and rate support grant") ["...the major problem in this year's public expenditure survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ('Chernobyl') [Department of the Environment statement; EC debating action on food imports from affected areas] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute to Powell ("New Yugoslav Federal Government: Messages") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Falkland Islands: Mine Clearance") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Letter from Francis Noel-Baker") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation Post By-Elections") ["what needs to be done... to improve the Government's performance and how it is perceived by the electorate"] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-MacGregor-Whitelaw) [public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (journalism, Chernobyl reactor still smouldering) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (football, by-elections, top salaries, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 May 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 334 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86") [invitation arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [the forthcoming meeting with Sir Ibbs: agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns about proposed extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Young ("British Shipbuilders (BS): establishment of Enterprise Corporation and other measures to assist the areas hardest hit by redundancies") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Lord Hill-Norton (Hull Forms for Warships) ["Your report deals with several technical matters on which Ministers obviously cannot express an opinion without professional advice. We are prepared therefore to commission an inquiry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram 79 to FCO (0800Z) (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [situation coming under control] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council, 12 May 1986: Budget and Own Resources”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Review Body Recommendations”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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