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| Date | Category | Type | Value |
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| 83 Oct 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("The Second GLCM Base: RAF Molesworth") [ground-launched cruise missiles: case for delaying development of the base] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: new American proposals: Soviet comment") [summary of main points from 22 Sep 'TASS' piece] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: timing of Bundestag debate and deployment in the FRG") ["The US are angry about this postponement but will have to investigate the possibility of further compressing the deployment schedule"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) negotiations) [forthcoming announcement on "new steps intended to move the negotiations forward"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKMIS New York telegram to UKE Washington ("President Mitterrand's Speech: Disarmament") [excerpts from speech] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("INF") [text of Reagan's statement on moving forward the Geneva negotiations on reduction of intermediate-range nuclear forces] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: MT letter to Andropov (Geneva talks on intermediate range nuclear forces) ["British nuclear strategic forces can have no place in any current negotiations at Geneva... If it is necessary for NATO to begin deployment of the new weapons by the end of this year, this can be discontinued or reversed at any time that a satisfactory [arms control] agreement is reached"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("INF: NATO's new negotiating position") [text of MT statement to media: "If a... [satisfactory] agreement cannot be reached soon, NATO will begin the process of new deployments. But even thereafter we remain ready to negotiate"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine) ["GLCM deployment timetable"; ground-launched cruise missiles: delay due to Bundestag debate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Prime Minister Fanfani letter to MT (EH101 helicopter project) ["I hereby confirm the commitment of the Italian government to the realization of the project"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Defence Estimates 1984") [comments on Heseltine White Paper; "show's Michael's determination to come to grips with the management problems"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cabinet Office note to No.10 (EH101 Anglo-Italian helicopter project) [Italian loan approval] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984") [background to Heseltine draft White Paper; handling; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 letter to Lord Cockfield PS ("Public Expenditure Survery: Defence") [No.10 Policy Unit note for Lord Cockfield's role in Ministerial Group] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Rees letter to Heseltine ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984") [draft White Paper: "a very positive document. We have an admirable story to tell on defence"; further comments on specific points] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Training Charges for Military Courses for Foreign and Commonwealth Personnel") ["You asked for a definition of the terms "full costs" and "extra costs" and for information as to how our charges compared with those of our competitors who sell equipment"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Equipment collaboration with France and the FRG") [No.10 request for note on track record/prospects for future co-operation, for MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (Training Charges for Military Courses for Foreign and Commonwealth Personnel) ["[You] asked for a definition of the terms "extra costs" and "full costs" used in my minute of 29th July"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Tebbit letter to Rees ("EH101 Helicopter Project") [Westland acceptance of launch aid offer for Anglo-Italian project; terms & publicity] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Foreign and Commonwealth Training Charges") ["proposals for making military assistance a more effective instrument of defence policy... the remaining problem is the level of our charges for military training"; MT requests further information of the definitions of "full" and "extra costs" and how costs compare to UK competitors] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Economy and Value in the MoD") [copy of letter from Chief of General Staff to HM The Queen] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Howe MP letter to Heseltine MP (handling of the issue of defence cuts during the election campaign) ["the principal points we need to watch"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("British Atlantic Committee") [MT draft statement of support for inclusion in Committee's reissue of publicity brochure] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Fanfani (EH101 helicopter project) ["I hope... you will be able to use your personal influence... to ensure that sufficient funds are made available... If this could be done in Italy... [UK] would be prepared to do the same"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Defence and Public Expenditure") ["the prime candidate for reduction in expenditure, this year and for the foreseeable future, must be Defence... All these defects are obvious in the way Michael Heseltine has presented the Harm/Alarm decision"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Events in Italy: impact upon EH101 helicopter") ["potentially serious impact of the fall of Signor Fanfani's government"; MT agrees to write to Fanfani, though doubtful it will help] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimate 1983") [publication/Written Answer] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates") [Heseltine's amendments to his White Paper; handling of its publication] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Brittan letter to Jenkin ("EH 101") [Anglo-Italian helicopter project: "I am very reluctantly prepared to agree to launch aid [to Westland] of up to £65 million (cash)... on two conditions"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("EH101") [Anglo-Italian helicopter project; thanks for MT intervention & advice on next steps following Prime Minister Fanfani's reply to MT] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [possible UN resolution requiring UK Task Force to "drop anchor, to turn around, to hold off as it were, which obviously we couldn't accept"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Haig) [full transcript of first call: dispute over British use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Pym) [Haig's latest proposals, problems at the UN] [declassified 2012] |
| 90 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union: Speech by Poehl") ["expresses doubts with moving ahead with EMU too quickly ... sympathises with the British concept of competing currencies"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin) ["Future of the ILEA": Inner London Education Authority: abolition by stages: next steps] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority) [Whitelaw, Brittan, Keith Joseph, Jenkin, Rees, Havers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Jenkin, Wakeham, Lord Bellwin, Waldegrave, Gummer) ["Education in London"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Biffen letter to Jenkin ("MISC 95: Education in London") ["perturbed to hear that the Group may conclude that the first elections to a directly elected ILEA should be held in May 1985... provision for them... in the Paving Bill... [risking] delaying the passage of the Bill and having a knock on effect on other important legislation"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "direct elections would be the easiest course politically... [but] you will almost certainly be making it impossible to achieve improvements in London's education for many years"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Scholar ("Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: 'borough opt-out' option] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Future of the ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: analysis of options & recommended course of action] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Jenkin) ["Future of the ILEA": Inner London Education Authority: options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner London Education Authority") [abolition of GLC/Paving Bill; direct elections to ILEA] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Aug 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Inner London Education Authority: direct support staff) [numbers provided at request of No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Waldegrave, Letwin, Bob Dunn) ["ILEA": Inner London Education Authority; London Conservative MPs' reform proposals; direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: London Conservative MPs' reform proposals; direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin ("Education in Inner London") [Inner London Education Authority: representative joint board vs. direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Involving the Boroughs in Inner London Education") ["running of their schools within the overall control of the new joint-board ILEA... [Dept of Education] proposals would be a great step forward in giving the boroughs a real say in the day-to-day administration of their schools"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 minute to Ian Gow ("Abolition of the ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: attendees for MT meeting with MPs "to run over the history of the last attempt to abolish the ILEA and consider the political advantages and disadvantages of a second proposal to this end"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Mar 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "We are recommending Joint Boards for other services following the disappearance of the GLC... it would be much easier to follow the same logical pattern for education"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Mar 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 letter to King PS ("Greater London Council and Metropolitan County Councils") [timetable; future work; future of the Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Future of the ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "I attach a paper by Oliver Letwin with some appealing ideas for constraining capricious and far-left behaviour"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Jul 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (future of the Inner London Education Authority) [MT "believes that the right solution would be to allow local authorities to opt out of the ILEA... [she] would like this solution to be considered further"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Hailsham (Polytechnic of Central London) [Inner London Education Authority "will be taking over direct financial control until they are satisfied that adequate financial procedures have been instituted"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "Following the meeting with... [MT] last week... [Keith Joseph] has revised his paper for Cabinet.... paragraph 4 opens up the issue of more favourable representation on a Joint Board for Westminster and the City"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Feb 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 minute to MT ("ILEA Statement") [report on Carlisle statement to Commons regarding future of Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Mark Carlisle minute to MT ("The Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baroness Young minute to MT ("The Future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: case for White Paper in preference to Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Future of I.L.E.A.") [Inner London Education Authority: report on H committee discussions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Mark Carlisle minute to MT ("The Future of the Inner London Education Authority") [MT unconvinced by Carlisle paper, and makes extensive comments on it] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Dec 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lady Young, Horace Cutler, David Smith) [Inner London Education Authority: Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 minute to MT (future of the Inner London Education Authority) [cover minute for Centre for Policy Studies paper, not attached] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Dec 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 briefing for MT (future of the Inner London Education Authority) ["likelihood of GLC Conservatives running on a platform divergent from the Government decision on the future of ILEA"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (the new block grant system: Inner London Education Authority) [note about item on 'Today' programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit note to MT (Industry's relations with the civil service) ["the attached letter... shows that at least some in industry understand and appreciate what officials here are doing"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Brittan, Hailsham, Gowrie, Neil McFarlane, Alan Clark, David Trippier, Robert Armstrong, John Redwood) ["Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms": MT "disappointed at the progress of this exercise"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [advice on possible further measures; MT: "The lack of progress is disgraceful... I will have a meeting myself with all depts in a fortnight"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms: Progress on Reductions") ["You asked me to summarise actions in hand, and those proposed... in preparation for your meeting on 24 July"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms: Enabling Bill") ["to exempt very small firms from large areas of legislation... the legal difficulties could be very considerable"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Loan Guarantee Scheme") [MT intercedes in DTI/Treasury dispute over financing & future of Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [circular to local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: David Trippier minute to MT (Local Enterprise Week) ["a resounding success"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [possibility of any major announcement before Parliamentary summer recess; Enabling Bill; further actions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: David Trippier minute to MT (Local Enterprise Week) ["a resounding success"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [overview; strategies; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme) ["The aim should be to get back nearer to the original intention that the scheme should break even"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Lord Caldecote") [small firms: economic recovery; Government schemes; main obstacles to expansion] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme") ["Given... the scale of the losses... I do not now propose to refer to it in the [Budget] Speech"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Parkinson minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [MT against the proposal to set up a Ministerial Working Group for what she regards as "a routine matter"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Repackaging of Department of Trade and Industry Schemes") ["confusion created by the number of related schemes and services... we will be looking to standardise and simplify... We expect small firms to benefit particularly"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme") [DTI/Treasury dispute over financing & future of Scheme: "I remain very concerned about the costs"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") ["in light of your wish... that this should be treated as a routine matter... I have asked [David Trippier]... to make recommendations to me by the end of the year"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme") [financing & future of Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Caldecote, David Trippier) [Loan Guarantee Scheme; Business Expansion Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Fowler, Gowrie, Armstrong) ["TSRB Pensions"; Top Salaries Review Body: "all members of the TSRB groups would receive smaller pensions than they would have done if the rates payable from 1 January 1984 had been payable from 1 April 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 note to Treasury (press report on pay rise for senior civil servants) [Top Salaries Review Body pay review] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 note (internal): Duty Clerk to Diary Secretary ("TSRB Meeting: 12 January") [Top Salaries Review Body: meeting rescheduled to accommodate Lord Chancellor] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: advice & attached briefing for MT meeting on 21 December] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Lane (Judicial Salary Structure) ["noted the points made in your letter... will be taken into account when Ministers... consider the recommendations of the [Top Salaries Review Body]"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: dispute with over senior army officers'/judges' pensions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("TSRB Report on Top Salaries") [background note for circulation to Cabinet] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Pay Review Bodies") [report on E(PSP) committee meeting: terms of reference of the Review Bodies; exchanges between MT and the Chairmen] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Top Salaries Review Body Reports") [decisions; handling; timing of announcements; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Top Salaries Review Body: Pensions) ["ask you to reconsider the policy that you are advocating... To treat in this way loyal public servants at the end of their careers... does not, I suggest, bear examination"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Hailsham, Heseltine, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Reports of the Top Salaries Review Body"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ('Financial Times' article on Armed Forces Pay Review Body) [proposed reply to the article] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Top Salaries Review Body report) [draft Written Answer to Parliamentary Question] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: MT agrees to further meeting to try to resolve Heseltine/Hailsham dispute with Treasury over senior army officers'/judges' pensions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Top Salaries Review Body Reports") [options; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Tebbit, Fowler) ["Review Bodies Reports 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 letter to HMSO (future arrangements for printing sensitive documents) [review of procedures] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("MPs' Pay") [data on civil service pay scales] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Top Salaries Review Body reports) ["the Government has decided to postpone decisions... until after the election. I am most grateful to you and your colleagues for... these reports"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 letter to Baroness Young PS ("Review Body Reports") ["I attach a copy of the written statement that... [MT] will be making tomorrow"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review Body Reports 1983") [main issues; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body; "part of the problem... [is] that final salary is defined differently for the different groups"; Cabinet Office paper; further meeting] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Top Salary Review Body Report No 19") [Report proposals; options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Review Body Reports") [precedents for statements on Top Salaries Review Body reports] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("TSRB Report") [Top Salaries Review Body: main issues; options; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("ICL") [consequences for UK company International Computers Ltd should BT procure IBM technology; future of ICL] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: British Telecom letter to No.10 (meeting in 10 Downing Street on 1 December) [proposed acquisition] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 26 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd; latest position] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit) ["BT/ICL": International Computers Ltd; "fears about technological dependence on the US"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("ICL") [chairmanship transition; BT purchasing choice between UK company International Computers Ltd and IBM] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (post-Cabinet meeting with Norman Tebbit) [topics, including INMOS and BT/International Computers Ltd (ICL)] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("ICL") [chairmanship transition; relationship between BT & International Computers Ltd] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to Information Technology Division, DTI (security classification of recent correspondence with No.10 regarding BT/International Computers Ltd) ["would be inappropriate to downgrade... to 'confidential'"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: BT letter to No.10 (record of confidential discussion) [Robin Butler, Clive Priestley: "to confirm my understanding of the outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("INMOS and BT/ICL") ["sale of INMOS and the placing of the major BT contract for computer systems [with either IBM or UK company International Computers Ltd (ICL)]... strength of the technological argument in each case"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jun 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: announcement of major redundancy programme] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 (sale to Fujitsu of International Computers Ltd microsystems facility in West Gorton, Manchester) [briefing] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: "if their hopes and plans go wrong, then a buyer is what they will have to look for... an unlimited source of Government funding... does not exist"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("ICL: collaboration with Fujitsu") ["I propose that Kenneth Baker should announce the tapered extension of the [Government] guarantee... on 27 November. This would spell out precisely the continued borrowing facilities which... [International Computers Ltd's] bankers are prepared to provide"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Nov 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gerald Kaufman MP, Kenneth Baker) ["ICL, Plymouth Grove": threatened closure of International Computers Ltd factory in Manchester] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("ICL") ["a [potential] disastrous blow to public confidence in... [International Computers Ltd] caused by either the appointment of Edwardes... [prompting] the resignation of board members... or by a public failure to find a new Chairman"; BT purchasing decision] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("ICL Ardwick: meeting with Gerald Kaufman MP, 23 November") [closure of International Computers Ltd factory] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: MT letter to Gerald Kaufman MP (closure of International Computers Ltd (ICL) factory at Plymouth Grove) ["the negotiations have all been unsuccessful"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("ICL: Preference Shares") [International Computers Ltd: conversion from Government loan guarantee: "With considerable reluctance... [and] misgivings, I am prepared to go along with the proposal"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: MT letter to Gerald Kaufman MP (closure of International Computers Ltd (ICL) factory at Plymouth Grove) [Kenneth Baker/National Enterprise Board assessment of options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Central Policy Review Staff minute to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: options for future of the company] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: response to MT request to know state of play regarding discussions on future of the company] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Barney Hayhoe letter to Keith Joseph ("Future of ICL") [International Computers Ltd: "The loan guarantee you announced... gives us a welcome breathing space. But we now need to reach a view quickly on further problems arising from Government dependence on ICL computers"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Kenneth Baker, Soames, Brittan, Cockfield, Reay Atkinson, Peter Carey, Gerald Watson, Bill Ryrie, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs, David Wolfson) [International Computers Ltd (ICL)] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("I.C.L. Report") [International Computers Ltd: discussions with banks on future of ICL; Government loan guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Attorney General letter to MT ("ICL - s.332 Companies Act 1948") [International Computers Ltd: "Inevitably the need to restore confidence in ICL increases the risks under section 332"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: options for future of the company] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 letter to Department of Industry ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: Government loan guarantee: Ministerial statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 May 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chairman of ICL Computer Users Association telegram to MT ("Urgent: from ICL User Convention") [International Computers Ltd: "urge you to insist that any decision about ICL will ensure that the company's long-term future is secured"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: Government loan guarantee: draft Ministerial statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry record of conversation ("ICL") [Kenneth Baker, Michael Havers, Lord Cockfield, Lord Benson, Robin Ibbs, David Woolfson, Peter Carey: future of International Computers Ltd: Government loan guarantee terms & conditions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("ICL") [future of International Computers Ltd: threat of receivership; discussions; possible Government loan] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Soames, Brittan, Havers, Kenneth Baker, Peter Carey, Bill Ryrie, Lord Benson, David Scholey, Robin Ibss, Robert Armstrong) [future of International Computers Ltd (ICL): Government loan guarantee: draft Ministerial statement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Future of ICL") [International Computers Ltd: receivership; Government loan; discussions with banks] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: discussions with banks on future of ICL; Government loan guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: Government loan terms & conditions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: Government loan guarantee: terms & conditions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Department of Industry minute to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: discussions with banks on future of ICL; Government loan guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: "main events leading up to the present crisis"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Attorney General minute to Kenneth Baker ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: advice on potential legal risk of Government loan to keep ICL afloat] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Younger minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") ["On reflection, I think it would be better to have a single White Paper covering the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Rees letter to Whitelaw ("Public Services (Transfer of Functions) Bill") [pending legislation "it would be valuable to have an assessment from colleagues on the transfers from their departments planned over the next few years for which the enacting of the Bill in the 1984-85 Session is thought to be necessary"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("E(A) Privatisation Review") ["We have now clearly set out the shape of the prospective privatisaton programme for future years and the implications for the legislative timetable and capital markets... I hope that we can obtain unqualified endorsement for the whole programme... you may like to be forewarned of one or two problem areas"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Competition and Privatisation") [candidates for privatisation; market implications of the proposed programme; legislative implications; proposal to transfer all except "special" shares to Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (privatisation of gas & electricity: press leaks) [Walker angry about "totally untrue stories"; asks MT to identify source of the leaks] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.1o Policy Unit minute to MT ("Contracting-out in local government") [Jenkin paper on progress to date and options for legislation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore (timetable for the sale of Sealink) [delay; bids] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley letter to Heseltine ("Sealink Sale: privatisation and defence") ["the possibility of restricting Sealink from "flagging out" any of its ships at any time, after privatisation, without Government approval"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore ("Sealink Sale") [announcement; BR press release] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (sale of Government equity) ["The case for selling... seems overwhelming"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Sale of the Government's Residual Shareholding in Associated British Ports Holdings") [announcement; details of sale arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": difficulties regarding sale] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Airports policy Movements at Heathrow - and Privatisation") [analysis of Ridley proposals in consultation paper for E(DL) committee ] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": "difficulties which have arisen over the sale"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Wytch Farm") ["The Government's objective is to obtain the best price for the [British Gas] disposal... There is no need to reopen the bidding to others... We do not consider the Government can be accused of bad faith in its dealings with the Dorset Group. Failure to complete a deal is a normal commercial risk... The Budget has significantly changed the value of Wytch Farm"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") [Ridley proposals to extend deregulation: "Only the persistent frustration of market forces could have produced a situation such as we now have"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("The Horserace Totalisator Board") [MT interested in privatisation proposal; Brittan presents case against it] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit) ["Sealink": P&O eligibility to bid] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Sealink UK privatisation) [refusal of European Ferries' request to be released from its 1982 undertaking not to acquire Sealink] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Bus Industry") [outline of Ridley proposals, "intended as the basis of a White Paper in the summer"; main issues; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Sea Link") [press release on privatisation bids, and referral of P&O bid to Monopolies & Mergers Commission] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Tebbit, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Sealink": consideration given to bids & decision made] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Contracting Out of Local Government Services") ["I was asked to commission a report from officials on the legislative options... will take rather longer than we had hoped... I thought... I should bring colleagues generally up to date"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Local Choice in Public Transport") [Welsh Office publication; "I am proposing to publish this simultaneously with your White Paper on 12 July"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Sealink") [assessment of bids for sale of the company] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Rees minute to MT ("VAT and Contracting Out") ["whether the incidence of VAT... [distorts] appraisal of the merits of carrying out certain work "in house" in the public sector": findings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: John Moore minute to MT ("Privatisation progress reports: July 1984") ["I attach to this minute summary notes on the present position of individual private candidates... My overall impression is that we have made fair progress... But some slippages have also become apparent"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Contracting-out of Local Government Services") ["still a danger that... [Jenkin's] plans will be neutered [by officials] before they reach Ministers... It would therefore be helpful for... [MT] to express her strong support for the principle of competition, and her wish to see rapid, effective action"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Airports Policy") [privatisation of BAA's London & Scottish airports] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Nationalised Industry References to the MMC: Scottish Bus Services") ["I have... now proposed that the bus reference be dropped, because circumstances have changed... recent White Paper... proposals... will lead to significant gains in efficiency without benefit of an MCC study... some presentational difficulty in abandoning a reference which we have already announced"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Younger letter to Walker (sale of the Portavadie oil platform construction yard site) ["the [best] offer is disappointing, and comparisons will inevitably be drawn between this figure and the cost of developing the site... I conclude that, notwithstanding the comment that willl be made, I should conclude the sale"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: MT letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["I understand that after giving careful consideration to your suggestions, Norman Tebbit remains of the view that European Ferries should not be released from its undertaking not to acquire Sealink"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Sealink") ["to inform you about the latest position on the Sealink sale, and the necessary timescale for decisions"; No.10 reply notes MT "concerned at the way the Sealink privatisation is developing. She would like to discuss it"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Sealink: Statement by the Secretary of State for Transport Wednesday, 18 July") [text; "I have today given my consent... to the sale of Sealink (UK) by BR to a subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Edwards PS letter to Ridley PS ("Bus White Paper") [Edwards "has now considered the Annexes... enclosed comments... point up apparent inconsistencies and problems"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Jaguar Flotation") ["a note of the main dates in the timetable"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (The Bus Industry: Statement to Parliament) [publication of White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") ["It was agreed that I should urgently revise the draft Annexes... amendments in the [attached] revised text"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to Cabinet Office (White Paper on Buses) ["I now attach the final version... [to be published] on 12 July"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Treasury briefing for MT (lunch with Sir John Baring) [Baring Brothers; developments on the Stock Exchange; Gower Report on investor protection] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Walker minute to MT ("Privatisation of Oil Companies") [stock market flotation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") ["We are to discuss at E(A) on June 28th... in advance of the meeting... revised opening paragraphs and a new piece about London... we should discuss the question of how to tackle fuel duty rebate"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Bus White Paper") [MT "feels that this is a major subject for which it is vital to get the presentation right, and she would, therefore, like it to come back a further time to E(A)... (MT) would like the following points to be considered"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["The decision not to release European Ferries from the undertaking [not to acquire Sealink] was taken in accordance with the advice of the Director-General of Fair Trading"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Walker minute to MT ("Enterprise Oil") ["the issue should be by tender... in line with a recommendation just made by the Public Accounts Committee"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Mr. Walker's Statement on Enterprise Oil") ["What could have been a difficult occasion for the Government proved to be very successful"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Howe minute to MT ("Flotation of Enterprise Oil") [stock market flotation: "the only aspect... that concerns me is [Peter Walker's] intention to retain a special share in the company"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Enterprise Oil") ["A difficulty has arisen on the flotation... the aim was to create an independent exploration and production company in the North Sea. RTZ's holding, if allowed to go through, casts doubt on Enterprise's independence"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") [draft] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Bus White Paper") [background; main issues; presentation/rural areas; fuel duty rebate; London; publication; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Washington ("Angola") ["scarcely veiled threats of American withdrawal... somewhat ill-judged"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Haig letter to Lord Carrington (Namibia/Angola) ["disturbed to learn... that we do not yet have common agreement... on the relationship between Cuban withdrawal from Angola and settlement of the Namibian question"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Angola") ["now a strong current in favour of [US] pulling out of the negotiations... unless... the other members of the Five... [associate] the Angolan and Namibian problems"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Washington ("Angola") ["We remain much concerned by continuing indications that the Americans contemplate pulling out"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola") [analysis of S. African position on Cuban withdrawal] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("Angola") [Portugal "increasingly concerned by the impassed over Namibia... believed that they now had some role to play"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [Cheysson message to Haig: "could be read as ruling out a common diplomatic line on the problem of Cuban withdrawal from Angola"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Cuban withdrawal: US/Angola talks") [lines to take in the event of opportunity to offer advice to US] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("US: Angola") [visit of US Congressmen to Angola: report on talks; Ambassador Kennedy record of conversation with Minister for Petroleum, Morais] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Luanda ("US/Angola/Cuba") [US/Angolan talks] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Angola") [Portugese diplomatic efforts] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Namibia/Angola") [Pik Botha press conference: "It is the Cuban presence which is making it extremely difficult... to make progress with the negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") [President Dos Santos public message to UN Sec Gen, condeming S. African attacks & mobilisation of army on Angola/Namibia border] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") [US reaction to news of S.African incursion] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Namibia/Angola") [Lord Carrington, Al Haig: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Cape Town ("South Africa/Angola") [press release stating UK government reaction to "reports of the fighting in Angola"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Namibia/Angola: FRG views") ["difficult... to agree to the sort of linkage between the Namibia initiative and Cuban withdrawal from Angola that the Americans currently seemed to envisage"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African/Angola") [record of conversation wit Pik Botha: "in a great state... complaining that the British press were harassing him... [but] South African forces had had to go in"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African/Angola") [PW Botha statement to House of Assembly on military action in Angola] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South African incursion") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Pretoria telegram to MODUK ("SADF operations in Angola") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa - Security Council") ["a growing feeling here... that the Security Council is fiddling while Rome burns"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Washington ("Namibia/Angola") [report of Al Haig conversation with Pik Botha] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Angola") ["Pik Botha... took exception to our statement yesterday... he would not accept criticism from us"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa: Security Council") ["If we decide in the end to abstain on... a resolution which the Americans veto... you should consider a confidential personal message to Pik Botha"; MT regrets not seeing advice sooner] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Havana telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") [public statement by Castro] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") ["I think it important that we should be seen to respond to the initiatives which the moderates take"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/Security Council") [record of conversation with Ambassador Figueiredo] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa - Security Council") ["only difference in... [US] eyes between the two sides in this conflict is that one side is backed by the Soviet Union"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Lord Carrington) [UN resolution on Angola; US decision on Enhanced Radiation Warheads] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Paulo Jorge, Luis de Almeida, Francis Kennedy) [message from President Dos Santos regarding situation in southern Africa; UK role in Angolan national reconstruction; Namibia; UK trade & investment; British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Howe minute to MT ("Angola: UNITA's British hostages") [latest position; MT concerned about handling] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President dos Santos ("Release of British prisoners") [message of thanks; "I should like to stress our readiness to help in any way we can in the search for a solution to the problems of the region"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lopo do Nascimento, Luis de Almeida) [Southern African issues; release of British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: the Prime Minister's message to President Dos Santos") [record of UK ambassador's meeting with President: release of British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("British mercenaries") [Ambassador Goulding record of conversation with Venancio da Moura] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (British mercenary prisoners) [message of thanks for forthcoming release] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO briefing for MT ("Possible call by Sr Nascimento, Angolan Minister of Planning, on the Prime Minister, 14 December 1983") [contingency briefing in the event that MT is called upon to "tip the balance on the release of the British prisoners"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (relations between the UK and Angola) [trade; conflict in Southern Angola; South African role in the conflict] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (UK/Angolan relations) [Lopo do Nascimento visit to UK; trade relations; Southern African issues] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jan 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (eighth anniversary of People's Republic of Angola proclamation of independence) [thanks for MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (Angola/South Africa) [complaint of incursion & request for UK support; UK ambassador record of conversation with Dos Santos] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit by Paulo Jorge, Angolan Foreign Minister") [British mercenary prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Aug 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to Sir James Scott-Hopkins MEP (Angola: UNITA) [Jonas Savimbi; MPLA govt; British personnel working in the diamond mines] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("President Dos Santos") [Ambassador Kennedy record of conversation with President Dos Santos: MT message requesting clemency for British mercenary prisoners; Namibia] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: Call by Mr Tiny Rowland: 1 August") ["Savimbi's prospects and intentions"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (Minister of External Relations visit to the UK) ["in addition to bilateral matters... [Paulo Jorge] will discuss... the serious situation prevailing in Southern Africa"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("UNITA") ["assessment... [of] situation on the ground... chances of... driving the MPLA from power... [and] whether a UNITA victory would serve British interests"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 6 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos ("Prisoners") ["concern in this country at the continued detention of the seven British mercenaries"; visit of Paulo Jorge to UK] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Visit of Angolan Foreign Minister") [record of Jorge Paulo's comments on his visit to UK and meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Nov 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi ("Angola: Commonwealth Congrss and Cuban troops") [proposal to replace Cuban troops with multinational force denounced by Angolan Embassy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Refinery") [report on attack; "this commando raid came very close to plunging Angola into economic chaos"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Aug 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Namibia and Cuba/Angola") ["the Americans think they have achieved a breakthrough, but this may be premature"; MT agrees] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Sep 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("African military assistance for Angola") [second hand report on Lagos meeting of front line states] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Aug 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Maputo telegram to FCO ("Namibia") [President Machel record of conversation with President Dos Santos; Ambassador Stewart record of conversation with President Machel] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Sep 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa/US") [record of conversation with Minister for Petroleum; "I would see valuable possibilities in a meeting between Angolan Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Aug 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/Namibia/Cuba: President Dos Santos") [Dewar record of conversation with Dos Santos] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Jul 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("US-Angolan bilateral talks") [status report/analysis] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Paulo Jorge visit") [probable agenda; suggested lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola") [Ambassador Kennedy record of conversation with Paulo Jorge] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Visit of Angolan Foreign Minister. Call on Minister for Trade") [background; lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Jun 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO ("Security Council - Angola") [vote on UN resolution] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (Angolan Presidency) [MT congratulations on his election] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (Angolan Presidency) [thanks conveyed for MT congratulations on his election] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("The situation in Angola") [Professor Hugh Thomas record of conversation with Jonas Savimbi: FCO assessment of Savimbi's claims] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Apr 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Zimbabwe/Namibia: meeting with President Dos Santos") [Ambassador Byatt record of conversation: Zimbabwe; Namibia; Cuban presence in Angola] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 May 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to Brian Crozier (activities in Zaire related to Angola) [MT thanks Crozier for his report on suspected training camps for Angolan dissidents; Foreign Office sceptical of report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (South African support for UNITA) [plea for UK intercession conveyed personally by Ambassador van Dunem on visit to UK] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 May 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador van Dunem) ["Angolan Emissary": delivery of message from President Dos Santos concerning South African military action in Angola; British mercenary prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Jun 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (Namibia) ["the British government, in association with... [our] Western partners, will continue... [our] efforts to ensure that the people of Namibia may soon become free and independent"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Jun 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO ("Security Council: Angola") [Angola pressing for UN resolution as a result of South African military activities] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Jul 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("South African attacks into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 80 Aug 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Following is free translation of broadcast by Angola Radio on 20 August") [perceived Western support for Jonas Savimbi/UNITA guerrilla forces] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: visit of Savimbi") [case against MT meeting with leader of UNITA guerrilla movement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jan 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (UK/Angola relations) [goodwill message] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("SADF raid into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jun 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Portugese views on Angola") ["Perhaps the greater danger is that the Cubans, of their own volition or at Soviet instigation, refuse to comply with Angolan requests to withdraw"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Angola") [record of latest meeting of Namibia Contact Group] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("SADF operations on Angola/linkage") ["would be prudent to take seriously Angolan protestations... there is in my view a case for urging the Americans to persuade the SAG to [moderate pursuit operations and evacuate border areas]"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Aug 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/SADF") ["would be very helpful to have some guidance on the present state of our and South African knowledge of Angola's southern air defence system"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute (internal): Armstrong to Secretariat ("Attribution of Views to Individuals in Minutes of Meetings") [guidance] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Attribution in Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Attribution in Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Minutes") ["given the prevalence of leaks, it is clearly important to interpret the rules strictly"; MT concerned that aspects of current guidance "go flatly against collective responsibility" - requests meeting with Armstrong to discuss] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 May 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [lines to take "about mutual trust between colleagues and also between Ministers and their senior Advisers: and additionally... about diaries"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 May 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: No.10 briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Tuesday 8 May") ["Points to Make": Cabinet Government; Administration/reducing waste; Cabinet Committees; the Queen's Speech; Ministerial procedure; press interviews; "We must be absolutely clear about our philosophy and strategy. All the pressures will be aimed at diverting us from it... We must stick to our guns"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Haig) [Haig informs MT of his "very worrying" phone call with Costa Mendez; MT: "he's playing for high stakes and he can't have them"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO (final version of draft agreed memorandum for proposal to Argentine Government) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Haig) [call at 0115, Haig tells of his further talk with Costa Mendez; "The truth was that President Galtieri had created a problem, and it was now running away with him"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [discussion of further Argentine demands; Argentina moving closer to USSR; concerns about UK public opinion] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (Pym-Haig) [further Argentine proposal compromising on certain demands; Pym will consider] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (Pym-Haig) [further US proposals; Haig requests meeting with Pym at airport to discuss; "Haig added that the Argentines were now terrified"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Pym-Haig) [Pym visits Haig at airport to discuss new Argentine proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Nick Ridley testifies) [leaseback not accepted "but there was every chance in due course it would have been"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA)/(Thatcher MSS) | US: Reagan message to MT (Trident II Sale) [Reagan regrets embarrassment caused by "premature press reports concerning my visit to London"] [declassified 2012] |
| 89 May 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China - students demonstrating for democracy") ["military will likely be used to restore order"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Apr 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China: student protests") ["an escalation of student protests will most likely trigger a government crackdown"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Crisis in Beijing") ["Xiaoping reportedly dead; President Shangkun orchestrates military crackdown"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jun 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Martial law and public security") [police divided, unreliable, untrained; ordered off the streets when martial law declared, army preferred] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China: relations worsening") [strains in PRC relations with US; random firing by PLA at diplomatic compound; Fang Lizhi] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jun 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Military region commanders") [possible role] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Aug 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Special assessment for customers of DIA NADA INTSUM") [overview of events April-June 1989] [declassified ?2014] |
| 90 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram (anniversary of Tiananmen Square demonstrations) [square open to suggest normalcy; tension in Hong Kong] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jul 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("Chinese Military Attaché comments on situation in China") ["Deng Xiaoping is in firm control"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Jul 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("Apprehension about bombs on CAAC flights") ["Each day everyone seems to have a new horror story about China"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Aug 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("Chinese riot control police units") [PLA used to suppress uprising because authorities lacked riot control units; "brute force … ended in the massacre of many Chinese demonstrators"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Aug 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("Disposition of Tiananmen Square victims") [medical staff defying government by refusing to release corpses until positive identification by next of kin] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Oct 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("conditions in Beijing under martial law as of 10 August 1989") ["appears very calm … the martial law forces guarding the square looked sharp"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Nov 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("PLAAF aircraft used to transfer foreign exchange to Bank of China's Shanghai branch in June 1989") [bank run following Tiananmen crackdown] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Nov 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Joint Staff telegram ("The new MC leadership - a postmortem analysis") [rise of Jiang Zemin] [declassified ?2014] |
| 89 Apr 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US Dept of Defense) | China: Intelligence telegram ("Internal friction among top political leaders in China") [Li Peng on Zhao Ziyang: "I don't see how a person who is always playing golf can know anything"] [declassified ?2014] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US visit: State Department program for MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) [unclassified] [221K scan] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US visit: State Department file on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) [unclassified] [376K scan] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US visit: International Exchange Program file on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) [unclassified] |
| 73 May 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Conservative Party: State Department record of MT conversation (lunch at the Connaught) [declassified 1998] |
| 75 Feb 16 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US Embassy in London to State Department (“Margaret Thatcher: Some First Impressions”) [declassified 2006] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires ("President's conversation with Argentine President") [use of force "would gravely compromise US-Argentine relations"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires ("UK-Argentine confrontation - Secretary calls in Argentine Ambassador") [if force used "we will have to side with the British"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE London to State Department ("The Falklands crisis: HMG under pressure") ["their toughest crisis since coming to power"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires to State Department (GOA suggests US Ambassador seek meeting with Galtieri) ["please advise"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Santiago to State Department (private Chilean response to invasion) ["blatant aggression"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig off the record briefing for press (US 'tilt' towards Britain) [UK "reasonable and forthcoming", Argentina "less so"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig off the record briefing to Congressmen (describes impasse) ["there is no one who can make a decision" in Argentina; questions self-determination] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig off the record briefing to Newsweek (shuttle diplomacy) [junta: "there are as many as 40 to 50 guys who can veto anything"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig off the record briefing to Time (extract on Falklands) ["neither side wants war"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department to US Mission at UN (" Times report of Kirkpatrick interview on CBS Face the Nation ") [if Argentina owns Falklands, moving into them not armed aggression] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE London to State Department ("Falklands dispute: a few suggestions") [buy time with "dramatic proposal for talks"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig letter to MT ("Falkland Islands crisis") [Pym bringing proposals back from Washington] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig letter to Costa Mendez ("Falkland Islands Dispute") [British reject your proposals; hopes for new text by Sunday] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Dept to USE Buenos Aires (Costa Mendez phone call to Haig) [accepts US "good offices"; invites Haig to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2001] |
| 80 Jan 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Dept Bureau of Intelligence memorandum ("Argentina: New Army Commander will provide continuity") [Galtieri appointment "a victory for moderates"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires to State Dept ("Safety of Americans") [press stories of US intelligence help to British could create "serious problems"] [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE London to State Dept ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [MT: "impossible to be neutral in the face of unprovoked aggression"] [declassified 2009] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires to State Dept ("Sinking of the Belgrano: Alleged US role") [unable to kill Argentine press stories that US satellite enabled sinking] [declassified 2008] |
| 82 Apr 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires to State Department ("Secretary's April 6 meeting with Costa Mendez") [Argentine government's "impressive capacity for self-delusion"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Vernon Walters ("Falklands Dispute") ["Brits in warlike mood - high strung, unpredictable … UK probably wants big sea battle to give Thatcher a 'victory' … Must stop their fleet"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department ("Need for urgent analysis") [after London talks Haig wants by Friday "powerful, strong analysis of the full range of consequences to our shared interests, if Falklands dispute is not resolved peacefully and promptly"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Eagleburger to Haig ("Consequences for US-UK interests of UK-Argentine armed conflict") ["damage to shared Western interests which could occur if Falklands dispute is not resolved peacefully and promptly"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE London to State Department ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [corrected memcon; redacted] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE London to State Department ("Conflicting reports on the possibility of a Red Cross opinion survey in the Falklands") [stories that some islanders want evacuation] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Galtieri ("Falkland crisis") [do not deviate from proposals they discussed on Saturday] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to Haig ("Falkland crisis") [Argentine reactions to his message to Galtieri] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Enders telegram to State Department ("Probable suspension of US effort") [12 Apr Haig conversation with Costa Mendez "yielded no new proposals"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez ("Falkland Islands crisis") [plea to avoid "public posturing of the sort that could spoil the prospects for good-faith discussions"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Safety of Americans") [ABC/Washington Post stories of US intelligence help to British "could create serious problems for this mission and resident Americans in general"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Galtieri ("Message for President Galtieri") ["my deep personal appreciation for the patience and statesmanship which you have shown over the past 24 hours"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Francis Pym ("Message to Foreign Minister Pym") ["I want to thank you and the PM for the extraordinary patience and statesmanship you have displayed over the past 24 hours"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Francis Pym ("Falkland Islands Dispute") [Argentinian language on decolonisation] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message from Buenos Aires to President Reagan ("Message to the President from the Secretary of State") ["very little give here … We are not at point where break is inevitable but events could unfold rapidly"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Bonn telegram to State Department ("Genscher on Falklands dispute") ["Western alliance could not afford to have the US effort fail. It would be a great prestige victory for the Soviets"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Francis Pym ("Message to Foreign Secretary Pym from Secretary Haig") [new Argentine text - "some movement towards a workable solution"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to Haig ("Message for Foreign Minister Costa Mendez") [asks for instructions] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez ("Letter to Costa Mendez") [London's reaction disappointed "but not closing the door"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US Mission UN telegram to State Department ("Falklands crisis: potential elements of a United Nations contribution") ["informal note" from Perez de Cuellar] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Francis Pym ("Message for Foreign Secretary Pym") [looks forward to seeing him in Washington; asks for his views on current Argentine proposal in advance] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez ("Letter to Costa Mendez") [Pym visiting, London has not rejected proposals, will need to be changes in document but is sensitized to Argentine concerns] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands dispute: Argentinian negotiating position and attitudes") ["The GOA continues to paint itself further into the corner … Even a military withdrawal is becoming a more doubtful proposition"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department to European Diplomatic Posts ("Editorial comment on the Falkland Islands") ["Of 22 major US dailies taking sides … all labeled Argentina the aggressor"] [unclassified; released 2001] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires ("Message from Lami Dozo: setting the record straight") [GOA appeals to Rio Treaty only hours after warning Haig] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez ("Falkland Islands: Letter from Secretary to Costa Mendez") ["we should all be concerned about the possibility of imminent military action in the area of South Georgia"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands dispute: attitudes in the military") ["increasing solidarity and a degree of cockiness about the outcome"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falkland crisis: Junta continues deliberations") [Galtieri sends message: "unfortunately still not possible to give me a decision"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands dispute") [Ros says Costa Mendez will deliver GOA reply in Washington] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands crisis: Argentine negotiating position") [Argentine press quoting Argentine sources in Washington saying Junta had rejected proposal; Junta itself says diplomtic channels still open] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez ("Letter from the Secretary to Foreign Minister Costa Mendez") [announces US tilt] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands crisis: prespective (sic) US measures") [Ambassador called on Galtieri without instructions at midnight hoping to "head off a fatal confrontation"; "no give whatsoever" from Galtieri] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Costa Mendez letter to Haig ("Falkland Islands: Costa Mendez letter") [rejects proposal; "other formulas must be found"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Santiago telegram to State Department (Chile: "GOC explains abstention in Falklands vote and denies loaning tanker to UK") ["careful balance" sought] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Falklands crisis: Galtieri's position") ["Galtieri left me in no doubt he wants peace. He also left me in no doubt that he is under extremely heavy pressure from the navy"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department ("Revised Peruvian peace formula") [meeting with President Belaunde] [declassified 2001] |
| 89 Jun 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998] |
| 89 Jun 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: stalemate continues") [hard-liners still unable to resolve leadership crisis or end demonstrations] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: Police use tear gas on crowds") [army forced back; octogenerians summoned up by Deng active in leadership] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: troops open fire") [reports of deaths between 180 and 500] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: after the bloodbath") ["troops fired indiscriminately into crowds of unarmed civilians, including women and children, often with automatic weapons"] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: descent into chaos") [press report clashes between PLA armies, attempted assassination of Premier Li Peng, troops poised to enter Shanghai] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: tense standoff continues") [few if any significant engagements between PLA units, despite press reports; stories of Deng's illness or death untrue] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: uneasy calm") ["a surface calm returned to Beijing and other major cities yesterday"] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: mixed signals on purge") [Deng speech] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: back to business but the crackdown continues") [leaders appearing in public in large numbers, to show unity and control] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: accusation over Fang Lizhi") [China escalates confrontation with US] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: swift 'justice'") [Shanghai death sentences upheld] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.28") ["10-15,000 armed troops stopped at city perimeter by human and bus barricades"; not yet permitted to use force, but armed for it] [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State telegram to USE Beijing ("Sitrep No.1, 1730 EDT, 6/3/89") ["PLA moves on Tiananmen. Casualties high"; Chinese Ambassador summoned] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.27") ["Martial law with Chinese characteristics"] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.33") ["June 4 afternoon and [?evening]"; tanks, APCs and trucks moving towards Tiananmen] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State telegram to USE Beijing ("China Task Force Situation Report No.3 - Situatuon as of 1700 EDT, 6/4/89") [Beijing - "The PLA is mopping up isolated resistance"] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State Department log (events 11.13-16.18) [US Ambassador "urgently requests that evacuation be authorised, not ordered, for government dependents only from Beijing and Shanghai only"] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: William Clark memorandum to Secretary Baker ("Administration response to events in Beijing") [case for President announcing "a strong, balanced reaction as soon as possible"] [declassified 1991] |
| 89 Jun 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.35") ["June 6, 0500 hours", troop movements & sporadic gunfire in Beijing overnight 5/6 June] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.37") ["June 7, 1900 hours", troops rotating out of Beijing fire on diplomatic compound; US Ambassador meets Vice FM Zhu] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 11 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.49") ["June 12, 0500 local", arrest warrant issued for Fang Lizhi & wife] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("What happened on the night of 3/4 June?") [analysis suggests "the massacre took place on Changan Avenue and other of Beijing's main thoroughfares rather than in Tiananmen Square itself"] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Eyewtiness Chinese account of June 4) ["PLA tank crushing 11 students and related early morning events in Tiananmen Square"] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.65") ["June 27, 1700 local", 'measured' Chinese response to US military sanctions] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 May 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State Department memcon (Secretary Baker-Chairman Wan Li) [Wan Li: "restoration of stability" necessary for reform and opening outward] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jun 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State Department intelligence brief ("Current situation in China: background and prospects") [final break between Zhao and Deng] [declassified 1996] |
| 89 Jul 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | China: State Department intelligence brief ("China: aftermath of the crisis - IRR No.210") ["temporary victory by hardliners"] [declassified 1996] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department ("Peruvian Initiative") [US Ambassador's conversation with President Belaunde] [declassified Nov 2001] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Lima ("Peruvian Initiative") [Haig message to President Belaunde] [declassified Nov 2001] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: State Department briefing for Shultz (dinner with MT) [objectives: “Reinvigorate US/UK relations in wake of serious bilateral frictions”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (general election) [“Tories plan to use defense issue to win votes at Labour’s expense”] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jan 4 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Burt briefing for Shultz ("Your visit to the UK, Jan 11-12 Scope Paper") [“This past fall, pressures on the US/UK relationship have been stronger than at any time since Suez”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“The 1983 election and the future of British politics ”) [“Conflict within parties may be more prominent, especially within the large Tory backbench”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General Election: State Department memo to White House (“President’s congratulatory telephone call to Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“a victory not only for your party but also for Britain, the NATO alliance and US/British relations”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz ("Vice-President's visit to the UK: briefing") [Falklands; Belize; EDU, IDU; doubt over Pym's future as Foreign Secretary] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General Election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz ("British elections - foreign affairs plays almost no role") [“absence of much serious discussion or interest in foreign affairs”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz ("Public comment following British election on June 9") [“discouraging requests from TV reporters here who have asked about the possibility of post-election interviews with US officials”; White House alone should comment] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General Election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: Thatcher does it”) [“For the Tories it was the best of all worlds”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“The visits of the Vice President and SECDEF”) [“The political scene here is much changed”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Britain after elections: foreign policy”) [“She has the political leeeway to pursue a strong defense”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Vice President’s meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe, June 24”) [“The Soviets are coming to realize that the President is consistent in his attitudes toward Soviet behavior”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with UK Prime Minister Thatcher, London, July 5, 1983”) [“As Thatcher enters her second term, we expect a stronger, more confident British voice in Western councils”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Foreign Secretary Howe’s July 13-14 visit to Washington: the background in Britain”) [“One month after the elections, British politics have run through the post-mortems and lapsed into introspection”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Britain after the elections: Thatcher in low-gear”) [“She may be holding fire until the autumn, but there is scant evidence yet of a new master plan”] [declassified 2003] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Central America: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher defends U.S. policy towards Central America”) [“Reagan is seeking to help the people in Central America choose their own governments”] [declassified 2003] |
| 84 Jan 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Burt briefing memo to Shultz (“Checklist for your visit to London”) [“Assure HMG that the USG desires to maintain/deepen consultations and our interests remain basically consistent”] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jan 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Burt scope paper to Shultz (“Your visit to the United Kingdom”) [“the primary task for the US side will be to listen attentively to British concerns and to reiterate our basic willingness to consult on fundamental and particular issues”] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Reagan message to MT (50th anniversary of British Council) [“It has set high standards in the art of cultural diplomacy for free countries around the globe”] [declassified 2005] |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Ambassador briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with Thatcher”) [“Thatcher wants to raise the Middle East, Salt II observance, and W79 shells”] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US Embassy London memo for Shultz (“The Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [King Hussein, terrorism and peace talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: Charles Thomas briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [Camp David agenda, arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (Congressional visits) [defence policies] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (Labour party policy) [serious implications for other NATO members] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Apr 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“The coming election in Britain: opposition perspectives on regional foreign policy issues”) [“neither the presnt Labor party nor the Alliance has great foreign policy depth or breadth”] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Apr 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Labournomics: the issues”) [plans to rejuvenate industrial sector and cut unemployment] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Apr 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: party perspectives on Northern Ireland”) [no party likely to abandon 1985 Anglo-Irish accord in a play for Unionist support] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 May 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: set for June 11”) [MT’s chances of winning] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: congratulatory messages”) [what to send in event of MT or Kinnock victories, or hung parliament] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: suggested press line”) [what to say in event of MT or Kinnock victories, or hung parliament] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher’s third term: what’s in it for us?”) [“the US-UK defense relationship remains intact and Britain’ alliance role assured”] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“George Younger’s seasoned team at the MoD and pending defense issues with the UK”) [NATO requirements, UK nuclear forces] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan (MT victory at general election) [“We understand no significant changes are coming in personnel in the foreign policy area”] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US State Dept draft schedule (MT visit to Washington) [meetings with key personnel 16-17 July 1987] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Scope paper for visit of UK Prime Minister Thatcher, July 16-17, 1987”) [“An assured conservative government and Prime Minister are back in place in London, friendly and admiring but also critical at times”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Visit of Prime Minister Thatcher: Your briefing of the President, July 16, 5:45pm”) [respective priorities: arms control, Soviet talks, Middle East] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Industry: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Airbus”) [“Airbus Industries practices constitute major issue in our trade relations with Europe”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Arms control negotiations”) [priorities on: INF agreement, cut in US/Soveit strategic weapons, global chemical weapon ban] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: East West relations”) [Afghanistan, arms control,human rights] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Falklands”) [US relations with Argentina, consult with MT on arms transfers] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: Department of State briefing (“Middle East peace process”) [“still waiting to explore international conference”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Africa: US State Dept briefing (“Mozambique”) [“British have come out strongly in support of Chiassano government”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Persian Gulf”) [access to oil, Soviet influence, stability of friendly states] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: South Asian Nuclear Issue”) [“British have expressed concerns that India and Pakistan are on the verge of an open nuclear arms race”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Syria”) [“Assurance of no further acts of terrorism from Syria”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Economy: US State Dept briefing (“UK at a glance”) [economy, unemployment, monetary policy, trade] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: U.S.-Soviet summit prospects”) [arms control: “We would like agreements if they are ready, but it is not a precondition”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US State Dept briefing (“The Falklands”) [arms sales to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Economy: US State Dept briefing (“UK - economy at a glance”) [economy, unemployment, monetary policy, trade] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“UK: terrorism”) [seek UK support for US approaches to GDR, Polish, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian governments “to persuade these countries to sever links with or take active measures against terrorist groups”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, December 16 at 11:00am”) [MT’s views on Gorbachev’s domestic policies, human rights, arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway scope paper for Shultz (visit to London) [“Our views on most major foreign policy questions coincide, but Mrs Thatcher puts a slightly different spin on arms control, dealing with Gorbachev, and the Middle East peace process”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, November 16, 2:45pm”) [International Fund for Ireland, Middle East, economic issues, Southern Africa] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US State Dept briefing (“Issues agenda/schedule for Thatcher official visit”) [arrival, individual and plenary meetings] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Burt briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher”) [future of sub-continent, Laker Airlines case, Middle East, US-Soviet relations, Central America] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Berlin issues”) [discussions with Soviets on Reagan’s Berlin initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: East-West relations”) [“Ongoing changes in East Bloc have created opportunities; but essential to maintain consistent approach to deal effectively with continued challenges to Western interests”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Chemical weapons”) [Bush’s draft treaty as a basis for negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Cambodia”) [seek Vietnamese withdrawal, Sihanouk as head of a future government] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Start negotiations and Trident”) [US position on inspection requirements] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Start”) [negotiators to produce joint draft treaty] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: CST mandate talks”) [“NATO seeks to remove force asymmetries between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and establish a higher degree of stability at a lower level of forces”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Europe: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)”) [“Negotiations on concluding document text going well … obstacles remain in both human rights and security areas”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Europe: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: European Economic Community (EC)”) [“We support European integration, but are concerned about statements by EC spokesmen stressing reciprocity, protection of ‘sensitive’ sectors, and preference for European goods”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Economy: US State Dept briefing (“United Kingdom economy at a glance”) [“Even though the British economy is booming, some observers believe it may be overheating and thus lead to inflationary problems and larger balance of payment deficits”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: COCOM”) [“There is increasing pressure from our key Allies, including the UK, to free up high technology trade with the Soviet Union”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Middle East peace process”) [“We cannot support any attempt, by either Israel or Arabs, to determine unilaterally the ultimate status of the West Bank or Gaza”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Northern Ireland: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Ireland and Northern Ireland”) [International Fund for Ireland, counter-terrorism measures] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Transport: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Civil Aviation”) [“disputes betwen the US and UK have occured frequently due to the highly competitive nature of the lucrative North Atlantic air routes”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Trade: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Gatt - Uruguay Round”) [“the most ambitious and technically complex trade negotiation yet undertaken”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | South Africa: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: South Africa”) [“State of emergency repression has quelled violent protest at the expense of further restricting political freedoms”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Africa: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Angola/Namibia negotiations”) [“The necessary compromises are now fairly clear, and have been framed in the US mediator’s proposal”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, December 16 at 11:00am”) [relations with Gorbachev, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Middle East peace process, South Africa, terrorism] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - Media highlights alleged request for use of British air bases”) [speculation MT denied request] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Early morning radio and TV coverage of US bombing mission over Libya”) [difficult position of UK government] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Demonstrations at Embassy London”) [opposition to US action in Libya] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Oakley meeting at FCO, April 14”) [UK government working on “convincing justification” for intervention] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Socialist International condemns US attack”) [“urges the US to ‘provide the evidence’ supporting terrorist claims against Libya”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Thatcher defends UK support for US strike”) [“Thatcher did not give Washington carte blanche”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - further UK reaction”) [Conservatives have “closed ranks”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
| 86 Apr 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Shultz (“Briefing the British”) [“The British should not feel shortchanged on privately communicated technical information”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
| 86 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
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