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PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton-Burns-George-Griffiths) [monetary conditions a little too lax; base rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [Powell conversation with Lord Sieff - feeler from Alfonsin; MT: "Will NOT discuss sovereignty. Islands are BRITISH and will STAY BRITISH"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("World Television Service") [not letting BBC's proposals dictate agenda] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour defence policy, MT’s contempt for Kinnock, latest polls, MT’s visit to Strasbourg, MI5) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Michael Alison record of conversation (MT meeting with President of Spanish Congress of Deputies) [British parliamentary system compared to the Spanish] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ingham minute to Chief Whip (Nimrod/AWACS Presentation) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Younger, MacGregor, Channon) [Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: political & technical aspects] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [special provision for caravans] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Rate Support Grant: expenditure definitions) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (the Business Magazine account of the Lonrho-Mexican Falklands initiative) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Powell note to MT ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting") [risk of losing up to half BBC External Services frequencies; MT willing to veto Final Acts if necessary to block] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [indexation to RPI, concessionary licences for pensioners] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT letter to Lord Thomson TV (World TV service) [would examine proposals from private sector on their merits] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [MT to send message to Papandreou regarding ex-King's son's attendance at Sandhurst] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memoirs/Falklands: Wicks minute for MT ("Ministerial Memoirs: Mr James Callaghan") ["trying to construe history so as to give the reader the impression that the Argentinians were tipped off [about 1977 naval deployment]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 41st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock’s defence policy, industry, economy, law and order) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memoirs: No.10 minute to MT (“Ministerial Memoirs: Mr. James Callaghan”) [1977 non-invasion of Falklands by Argentina - Callaghan’s interpretation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft: OD Meeting at 5.30pm on Wednesday 17 December") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Meeting with Lord Weinstock") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Letter from President of Boeing") [MT's draft reply] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Wicks minute for MT ("Parliamentary Handling of Nimrod/AWACs") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Payment for Local Government' - response to consultation") [acknowledgement of responses; unresolved policy issues; publication] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Association of District Councils letter to MT (meeting to discuss reform of local government finance) ["I appreciate greatly your receiving us and believe the discussions were very constructive"] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Interest Rates") [Lawson rejects MT idea that PSBR set too high in budget] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [ministers to be given more time to consider the draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: David Lange message to MT (review of defence policy) [presence of battalion in Singapore] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour’s defence policy, Nimrod) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Government Response to Advice from the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Willie Whitelaw minute to Nicholas Ridley ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [statement on policy intentions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with Lord Weinstock about the AEW contract) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Derek Jackson letter to MT (the Nimrod AEW problems) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ingham minute for Powell ("Presentation - Nimrod/AWACs") [criticisms to meet & positive points] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of phone conversation (Ingham, Parkinson) [Nimrod/AWACs - constituency interest] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell (Captain Palmer's letter to MT) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Ingham minute for Bridadier Budd ("Chernobyl PQ") [CCU report - "great deficiency" with his draft PQ] ​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates: MT concerns] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Foundation for the cohesion of the West: 21st Century Trust") [set up in response to suggestion that there is "a prolbem of growing strains of cohesion in the West"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Douglas Hurd minute to Nicholas Ridley (statement on plans) [enforcement and appeals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (Prime Minister's meeting with Lady Porter) [request for briefing] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS note to David Norgrove (Gordon Pepper talk) [Lawson's credibility; monetary policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries: Multilateral Solution: Antarctic Treaty Framework") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Television Licence Fee") [concessionary licences for pensioners, minors] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: John MacGregor minute to Paul Channon ("Export Credit for Greece") [need to go very cautiously on further credit business with Greece] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1504 to FCO (1930Z) ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [Cartledge, Gorbachev] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Cranborne: Afghanistan") [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4540 to FCO (2105Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 15/16 December: Ex Novo Review") [record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod, AWACS, industry, Labour’s defence policy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Commander-in-Chief Fleet letter to Lord Weinstock (TIGERFISH torpedo) [fleet is pleased with the technology] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft: OD Meeting: 17 December - Suplimentary Brief") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MOD ("ALARM") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("OD Meeting: Airborne Early Warning Aircraft") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod AEW & GEC's views of the assessment process) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ingham minute for MT ("Nimrod/AWACs - Presentation") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Meeting with Lord Weinstock") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President of Boeing (AWACS/Nimrod competition) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Weinstock) [Nimrod project & GEC strategy] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Use of PR consultants") [policy on firms searching for Government business] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Ridley ("Government response to the Fifth Report from the Environment Committee, Session 1985/86: Planning: Appeals, Call-In and Major Enquiries") [Policy Unit: "The Committee demonstrates less dissatisfaction than this office with the planning appeal delays in the system... it is time for the DoE to be asked to sign up for a clear objective to improve this element in their performance"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [MT approves statement on interim report] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 ("Islington's Debt") [Norgrove - "I think I had better move house!"; MT - "Not to Southwark!"] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Tebbit PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [search for efficiency will yield savings] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John Biffen minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [Winnick bill on fee concessions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Bethell letter to Howe ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [thanks for assistance in securing visa to USSR] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1445Z) ("ICBM Modernization") (NSC 0140) [declassified Aug 2018]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“AIDS”) [medical research, sterile needles for drug addicts, announcements] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: UK Ambassador Washington letter to No.10 (“International Conference on Private Sector Initiatives”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 24 (Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod, AWACS, Labour’s defence policy, MI5, industry, AIDS) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (AWACs - a note by John Wiggins) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Cabinet: AEW") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod assessment: GEC's ability to meet the deadline) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Statement to Parliament") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell (AEW competition: draft speaking note for use by members of the Cabinet after announcement of a decision if in favour of E-3A) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Radio Green Paper") [coverage of politically controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Myra Hindley, Nimrod, AWACS, Labour’s defence policy, European Community) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Public Line to Take") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Channon minute to MT ("Japan: alcoholic drinks") ["...outline of the new tax structure to be applied to Scotch whisky and other alcoholic drinks... effectively means a continuation of discrimination."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Lawson minute to Paul Channon ("1986-7 Pay") [handling of pay issues] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Jopling PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [percentage change for agriculture, fisheries, food] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Younger PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [revised totals for civilian and service manpower] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 1103 to FCO (1610Z) ("FRG Monetary Policy") [new target range for Central Bank money] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 42nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod/AWACS, Labour’s difficulties, AIDS, MI5) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT letter to Chairman of ACARD (Government Research and Development expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Policy Group Report ("Managing the economy") [urges joining ERM; reducing basic rate of income tax to 25p, top rate perhaps to 50p] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Alison minute to MT (Northamptonshire County Council) [rate support settlement grant] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Hartley Booth minute to MT ("The White Economy") [income of charities and voluntary bodies - MT: "a pretty phoney figure"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Progress Report on the FICZ") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to Tebbit PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [continuing search for efficiency] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [concessions for pensioners] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (North/South dialogue) [international community can agree on a range of development issues] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4665 to FCO (1905Z) ("Ex Novo: Coreper Brainstorming: 19 December 1986") [report on amabassadors' 'brainstorming' session with Delors] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (“heads must roll” over Nimrod, economy, unemployment, AIDS) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet System") [proposed invitees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to Cabinet Office ("ALARM") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Charge: Appeals") [authorities should have regard to costs their actions may impose on others] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Television Licence Fee") [second reading of Winnick's bill] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (new High Commissioner) [appointment of McClelland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Dec 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Seminar on the Soviet System) [request that Cabinet Office be represented] [released Jul 2017]

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