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PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 minute to MT (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand's motives: put Chirac in the shade, discuss east/west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 4th ("Students and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 5th ("Introducing the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President of Jei-Ai Publishing Co. Ltd letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [copy attached of the company's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury: case against sanctions, and proposed alternatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2538 to FCO (1946Z) (“Prospects for Reykjavik”) [“the core of the substantive discussion will be on arms control”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft speech (party conference) [heavily annotated first draft] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong (Meeting with President Mitterrand) [EC financing, possible informal meeting] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Wyn Roberts letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [proposed advisory group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Howe PS (invitation to Prince and Princess of Wales) [Chirac letter to MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Charge Duties on Registration Officer") [responsibilities to fall on an individual or local authority] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Stewart-Middleton-Leigh Pemberton-Blunden-George) [no immediate increase in base rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker minute for MT (“EC Directive on Environmental Assessment: Application to Offshore Oil and Gas Developments”) [“very reluctant to set up new and quite unnecessary bureaucratic machinery”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Lord Young (“Removal of Barriers to Business in Europe”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“London European Council: 5-6 December”) [proposed agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Reagan (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“INF seems to offer the best prospect for agreement on arms reductions”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory party conference, MT’s speech, Labour party conference, South Africa) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [draft Government response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Chairman of Westland plc (future of Westland) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to No. 10 ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [subscription TV, ITV contracts, radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit of President Mitterrand") [arrangements for informal talk about EC Council meeting] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate Redundancies”) [proposed advisory group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Jopling letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [rural areas] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to President Ceausescu) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit of President Mitterrand") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [hopes Italian personal representative will revert to original proposal for event on 7/9 June] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Autumn Statement: Additional Briefing") [growth in planned spending, spending trends] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Request for Green Pound Devaluation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Howe minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS”) [screening for overseas students entering UK] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“AIDS”) [press reports MT had approved leaflet; in fact not yet decided] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“White Paper: Developments in the European Community: January-June 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 minute to MT (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Younger PS minute to No.10 (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [clearance of draft response to report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rifkind letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [agrees to proposed advisory group to complement work of Scottish Development Agency subject to additional funding] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("ALARM") [MT's concerns over the project development] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Edwards PS ("Star Chamber") [Welsh programme not yet settled] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Reagan message to MT (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“prepared for serious exchanges in all four areas of the U.S.-Soviet agenda”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 841 to FCO (1740Z) (“Kohl’s messages”) [“Kohl supported the US position on LRINF … he stressed the importance of conventional arms control as well”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Defence Committee: Westland plc: Question and Answer Brief”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Action for Jobs”) [“powerful evidence of the value of television advertising”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 277 to FCO (1823Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: NAC briefing by Nitze and Ridgway: other arms control and East/West issues”) [“Human rights will head US agenda”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services: 15 October 1986") [radio, telecommunications systems, licence fee] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Lord Wolfson letter for MT (Memorial Service for the victims of the attack in Istanbul) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 851 to FCO (1700Z) ("FRG Internal: The Coalition's Prospects") [Kohl's party confident of coalition being returned again] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John Moore letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [proposed advisory group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Treasury minute to MOD ("ALARM") [the progress report] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2607 to FCO (2301Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Arms Control Issues in Congress") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Specific grants to local authorities") ["...tend to increase overall local authority expenditure compared to... a general grant"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("The Markets") [timing of interest rate increase next week] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT not persuaded by Howe argument for writing to President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: visit of NAM Foreign Ministers") [request to meet with MT or Howe - expected to plea for comprehensive sanctions; advice] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove (Economic Assumptions) [unemployment, average earnings, GDP deflator, RPI] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT (Star Chamber) [Treasury's marching orders] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [the Main and Coventry proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Government’s response to the teachers’ pay disputes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 19 (Select Committee on Defence: Westland PLC) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 20 (The Queen’s speeches on the prorogation and opening of Parliament) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Defence Committee Reports on Westland: Government Reply”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove (Autumn Statement) [publication of printed statement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [PSBR figures; rate of economic growth; base rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 283 to FCO (1253Z) (“Reykjavik summit: NAC briefing by Shultz”) [“Shultz said that beneath the disappointment of the moment was a positive sense that possibilities had been opened up for far-reaching arms control agreements”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram 95 to FCO (2330Z) (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session]
Text 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2613 to FCO (0140Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (0250Z) (“Reykjavik summit”) [“a set-back for the President … there is now no immediate prospect of the substantive summit here on which he had set such store”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, industry, terrorism) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Ceausescu (conventional force reductions in Europe) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("1986 Public Expenditure Survey") [university pay, city technical colleges] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for Channon ("Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: Stretch Potential") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [draft programme] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: MT letter to Lord Cranborne (Afghanistan) [Western solidarity; humanitarian aid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Bernard Ingham ("Venice Economic Summit") [rules for press briefings provisionally agreed] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (President Mitterrand's visit) [press arrangements, dates] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Fifth Meeting: Monday 13th October 1986") ​​​​​​​[follow-up to party conference, future meetings, BBC bias] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (earthquake) ["We have already sent in emergency assistance from Belize and more help is on the way"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control - The Way Forward") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Arts and Libraries") [British Library, grant in aid, museums] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Channon letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [proposed advisory group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit") [preferable dates for event are 7/9 June] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand") [points on the EC to keep in mind: relations with France, European Council, EC financing] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Handling of planning applications by local authorities") [Government asks Barnet to review its procedures, being one of the slowest local authorities for processing applications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (Meeting with President Mitterrand) [Mitterrand wants to discuss east-west relations, arms control, implications of Reykjavik] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Cobb memo for Poindexter ("Presidential phone call to PM Thatcher") [open line call; talking points on proposed agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years, "if raised"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO (“ECOFIN Council, 13 October 1986: agricultural spending”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Tom King letter for Whitelaw (anonymity of rape victims from the time of complaint) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Ridley letter to Baker (“Education of No Area pupils: funding arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“MISC 122: teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Teachers Pay”) [clash between Treasury and DES] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015]

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