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PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Forced Removals”) [black communities at Kwangema and Driefontein will not be forced to move] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Internal Situation”) [atmosphere worsened in black and coloured communities following indiscriminate detention of school children] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to Kenneth Baker (“GLC County Hall”) [relocation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT personal minute to Secretary of State for Scotland (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [thanking for the message] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [JMB and Ansbacher] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [banking supervision] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Discussion Paper on Policy towards South Africa”) [cover note] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Norgrove (“Lord Rothschild: South Africa”) [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("French rail crash") [message of sympathy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT message to Prime Minister González ("French rail crash") [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks minute to MT ("Regional policy") [Gregson thinks if regional policy goes to Employment, so must responsibility for inward investment] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (NSA) Nicaragua: North-Poindexter emails (possible approach to MT) [declassified 1987] [114K scanned image]
Text 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ("Action for Sunday") [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (thoughts for press?) [top three look 'tired'; "Cecil not returning"; "13 yrs old"; "Team - Bcing - good image"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ('Employment') [responsibilities being moved] [released 2015]
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Powell note to MT ("Ptarmigan/MSE") [UK bid for US contract: unconfirmed report of action following MT message to Reagan] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Proposed United Kingdom Action Against the Commission in the European Court of Justice") [annual premium for sheep; MT "delighted" with shift to "more aggressive policy" with regard to EC Commission/European Court] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to UKREP Brussels ("EC Enlargement Negotiations") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1128 to FCO (1500Z) ("Gorbachev's Interview with Time Magazine: Comment") [summary & analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain letter to MT (construction of the European Fighter Aircraft: Spanish participation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [proposed spending cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 notes (gameplan) [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Armstrong minute to Wicks (possible machinery of government changes) [draft Note for Editors] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Draft press notice ("Ministerial Resignations and Appointments") [last minute adjustments written in] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks note for MT (Hurd reservations about wholesale changes at Northern Ireland Office) [warns Chief Whip not to move Scott & Patten as well as himself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby briefing (reshuffle) [12.30 & 6.50pm briefings, with attached note "Reshuffle 1985"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer APS letter to No.10 (“Press Advertisment: Keith Package”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gummer letter to MT (regrets at leaving CCO, accepts new job, her vital role) ["you ought not to entertain thoughts of the kind you raised latterly with me"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 note for the record (“The 21 limit on the number of Cabinet Ministers”) [“Mr Tebbit will not count against the 21 limit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Bishop Tutu”) [suggests he meet MT during his visit to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Luxembourg (“Political Committee Meeting: 3-4 September: South Africa”) [resist claim SA financial crisis improves case for economic sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Value for Money Targets") [Private minute to MT: Ibbs "encouraged by progress" but "still some way to go"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Value for Money Targets") [report on the use of value for money targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to No.10 (work of the Efficiency Unit) [better communication required to ensure Unit can provide input on relevant issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: New Zealand High Commission minute to Charles Powell (meeting with Harland) [new appointment] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ('Hetman') [family question, free travel area, effect on morale of retaliations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to Caroline Ryder ("Commonwealth Secretary-General") [scheduling of meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("HETMAN") [inconceivable Russians will release HETMAN's family, expulsion of Soviet officials, impact on Anglo-Soviet dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mozambique: FCO letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit by President Machel of Mozambique") [Powell annotation to MT: 'I know that you have a soft spot for Machel. But there is really nothing more that we can offer him'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO to UKE Bonn ("Gorbachev Speech on Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Department of Trade and Industry - the next moves") [British Leyland privatisation; new brooms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2130Z) (“US-South Africa”) [US policy on SA "in tatters" since July, "now even worse"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (his letter to President Botha) ["succinct and helpful"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“JMB and Ansbacher”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Implementation of Scrutinies") [requests permission to publish report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (value for money in Government) [comment on minutes from Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Armstrong-'C'-Duff) [decision not to pursue release for HETMAN's family and to expel 25 Soviet GRU agents; line to take for the press; message to Reagan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT ("HETMAN") [decisions needed for meeting - whether to press further for release of HETMAN's family, number of expulsions of Soviet officials, etc] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Noonan letter to Douglas Hurd (court proceedings) [seizure of IRA money] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (privatisation programme: BA) [proposed press line on delayed sale] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1137 to FCO (1330Z) ("US Senators' Meeting with Gorbachev") [Gorbachev, Sen. Robert Byrd, Sen. Sam Nunn & others: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["US/Soviet Summit": MT message to Reagan in advance of Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (jobs strategy) [MT irate about handling of meeting requests] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Testing: Message to the Prime Minister from Mr Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600 aircraft) [possible All Nippon Airways contract] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EMS") [European Monetary System: possible dates for seminar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("1985 Public Expenditure Exercise") [timetable, composition of Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (nationalisation cases in European Court of Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Richard Faulkner MP letter to Ingham (Report of the Football League: Working Party on Membership Cards) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Press Office minute to No.10 Policy Unit (“Shoot!”) [proposed MT article on football hooliganism for children’ comic] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Rome to FCO (“Visit by Troika to South Africa”) [Andreotti found visit "positive and very useful"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [Ten might want to "study measures" against South African Government; MT rejects phrase] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-7”) [analysis of the No.10 Policy Unit proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Attorney General) [JMB and Ansbacher] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries ("Value for Money Targets") [Efficiency Unit report on targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 internal minute (issues for Efficiency Unit advice)[Private Office to "to be on the lookout" for relevant issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 612 to FCO (0800Z) ("Resignation of Mr Peacock as leader of the Australian Liberal Party") [Howard elected leader] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (Assistance for Turkey's admission in EDU) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Lord Hanson letter to MT (Hanson Trust activities in Canada) [request for MT to arrange personal introduction to PM Mulroney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ministry of Defence letter to John MacGregor (Defence sales: credit arrangements: Turkey) ["I share... [Howe & Channon's] disappointment at the cautious figure of £50M that has been proposed"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [possibility of reinforcement from outside Northern Ireland, situation in prisons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [comment on Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Egyptian Projects: Considerations for the Prime Minister's Visit") ["Our two Departments have differed... I am now writing to propose an approach which takes account of the various interests involved"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 585 to FCO (0930Z) ("Egypt: Cabinet Reshuffle") [report on resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Ali and on his successor Dr. Ali Lufti] [released Jul 2018]
Text 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane memorandum (public diplomacy programme to sell US policy towards South Africa) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [approved airing of the programme in October following statement agreed with Board of Management that reference procedures failed in this case] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Canada and South Africa”) [Mulroney cautious on economic sanctions in tv interview] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Rajiv Gandhi (situation in South Africa) [does not share his view about economic sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Spending 1986-7”) [borrowing allocations] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Tessa Gaisman minute to MT ("Mr McLay, Leader of the New Zealand Opposition Party") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Request by New Zealand for provision of a Diving Officer to assist in investigating the sinking of the Greenpeace vessel 'Rainbow Warrior'") [assistance, responsibility for sinking] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("HETMAN: Timing of Action") [case for delaying action until senior minister present in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [Soviet intelligence activities in UK, expulsions of officials, restrictions on staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("HETMAN") [MT wants press statement not "to mince words" - the Russians were caught red handed in intelligence activities; reluctantly agrees to wait until 12 Spt, but with contingency plans to act sooner] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [HETMAN told of MT's decision not to pursue further attempt to release his family] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [digest of HETMAN's most significant reporting to be passed to the French Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Mark Addison ("Proposed BBC Programme 'Real Lives'") [media should not give "gratuitous publicity to terrorists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("NEDC Membership") [National Economic Development Council: Lawson invitation to Kenneth Baker to make up the five-Minister Governnment representation; "a waste of time"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT criticises FCO draft of letter to President Reagan as "worse than useless"; Powell offers options for redraft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Geneva Arms Control Talks: Western Strategy") [cover minute for FCO paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Gorbachev (arms control issues: Geneva negotiations with the US) [declassified 2014]

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