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Subject: British relations with the US. Importance levels: 1-Key, 2-Major.

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PDF 72 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 menu ("Luncheon in honour of the Honourable Ronald Reagan Governor of California, and Mrs Reagan") [first meeting of MT and Reagan] [released 2003]
PDF 75 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) ​​​​​​​MT: White House memcon (President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger, Deputy NSA Scowcroft) [Kissinger: "I don't think Margaret Thatcher will last"] [declassified 2004]
PDF 75 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ford Library) Cold War: White House memcon (President Ford, Brent Scowcroft, MT) [declassified 2004]
Info only 79 May 4 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] MT appointed Prime Minister
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 989 to FCO (2226Z) ("The Outlook for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy") [analysis; Presidential & Congressional elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("East-West relations") [top copy annotated by MT; other foreign policy and defence briefing] declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Carter) [congratulates MT on becoming PM, "tremendous personal victory for you"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Carter letter to MT (foreign policy issues) [renewed congratulations; SALT II & Middle East] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 40 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“still great uncertainty”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Sino-British relations”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Brown, Pym) [nuclear, Middle East, China] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT telegram to President Carter (foreign policy issues) [interim reply] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT to Lord Chalfont (future of Washington Embassy) [“So much will depend on our future relations with the Carter Administration”] [released 2017]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Talk with Dr. Brzezinski”) [John Hunt: nuclear policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1235 to FCO (2152Z) ("President Carter") [report on indictment of Bert Lance & the ramifications for Carter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 42 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“entering sustained period of slower growth”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1396 to FCO (2305Z) ("Rhodesia: Presidential Determination") [text of statement by President Carter outlining his reasons for being unwilling to lift sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Defence sales to China: future policy”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's Call on King Hussein") [Carrington, Hussein: Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Lebanon; Oman; sale of British tanks to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Carter (foreign policy issues) [SALT II, South Africa, Middle East, Tokyo G7; including drafts] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Senator Helms' request for a private meeting with MT, ostensibly on the authority of President Carter] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Pym, Gilmour, Hurd, Abdelhamid Sharaf, Sharif Zeid bin Shaker, Jordanian Ambassador, John Moberly) [MT account of meeting with Prime Minister Begin; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Egypt/Saudi Arabia; Soviet intervention in Middle East; Lebanon; sale of British tanks to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to President Carter (SALT II, CTB, Middle East, G7, Vietnam) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with President Carter”) [Economic Summit, Tokyo] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1668 to FCO (1515Z) (“Farewell call on President Carter”) [UK ambassador Peter Jay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1740 to FCO (0420Z) ("Rhodesia") [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Quadripartite Breakfast - record of conversation) [US, UK, France & West Germany] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit Communique (“Declaration: Tokyo Summit Conference”) [including statement on Vietnamese boat people]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Senator Jesse Helms on the Prime Minister, Wednesday 4 July") [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jesse Helms, John Carbaugh) [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: John Carbaugh letter to MT (Meeting with Senator Helms) [Helms' assistant conveys thanks to MT for meeting with Helms; Rhodesia; Salt II; request that MT meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms and Mr. Carbaugh") [MT concurs with Helms that US oral assurance over SALT II are insufficient; unwilling to take up his proposal to meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [implications of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 43 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“likelihood of recession this year”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1910 to FCO (2007Z) ("US Political Scene") [report on Domestic Summit at Camp David; speculation on outcomes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms") [MT agrees to details of her recent conversation being shared with UK Ambassador Henderson, following divulgence of details to US press, despite No. 10 requests to FCO for confidentiality] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Defence sales”) [reactions of COCOM partners] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1971 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Carter's Speeches") [analysis; "marks a strong effort to reverse his own political decline"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1972 to FCO (0035Z) ("President Carter") [Cabinet resignations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nott letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Policy on Film Finance") ["The interest in this subject, and the potential political difficulty if we mishandle it, is disproportionate to the amounts of money involved... I enclose the text of a statement which I should like to make"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2006 to FCO (1557Z) ("US Political Scene") [report: "looks very much as though this episode of the [entire Cabinet] resignations has added to the lack of confidence in Carter's administration"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 2058 to FCO (2202Z) (Carter praise for MT) [thanks to her initiatives Tokyo Summit succeeded] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [MT: "Please don't dash into recognition yet [of the new government]"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 79 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2122 to FCO (1955Z) ("US Government") [Cabinet reshuffle: appointees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Nicaragua") [MT "belief that we should not rush into recognition of the new Nicaraguan government"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 79 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram to MT via UKHC Lusaka (“US defense budget”) [“higher inflation levels than originally estimated”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("Sir Lawrence Kadoorie") [trade and industrial contracts with China] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Lawrence Kadoorie) [trade and industrial contracts with China] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Sir Lawrence Kadoorie (developing trade links with China: discussions with Exxon) [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2335 to FCO (2140Z) ("President Carter and Andrew Young's resignation") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: Bryan Cartledge to FCO (Mrs Sharansky phone call) [hunger strike over husband’s imprisonment, can MT make a plea to Brezhnev] [released 2017]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT ("Robert Conquest") [Conquest paper on US/UK misconceptions about Soviet motives; MT agrees with Carrington proposal for seminar for experts on Soviet affairs, and requests Joint Intelligence Committee study on current thinking and outlook of Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 46 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“not very encouraging”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [stresses urgency of need for sanctions to be lifted if Muzorewa Government is not to fall] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2657 to FCO (0002Z) ("Senator Edward Kennedy") [consideration of candidacy for the Presidency] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Caroline Stephens note to Michael Alexander (John Carbaugh, Assistant to Senator Jesse Helm: request for meeting with the Prime Minister) ["will not take no for an answer"] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Note of a Discussion with Dr J Lucier and Mr J Carbaugh (Assistants to Senator Jesse Helms) on 14 September at 1100 hours at No. 10") [Michael Alexander, Lucier, Carbaugh: Rhodesia; Chile; Cuba/Salt II] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Chile") [restoration of Ambassadorial relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Nuclear warhead programme”) [“major problems of resources”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“MISC 7: future of the United Kingdom strategic nuclear force”) [discussions with US] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Ambassador Brewster) [Rhodesia] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Abdelhamid Sharaf, John Moberly) [Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; sale of British tanks] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("King Hussein's Call on the Prime Minister") [sale of British tanks to Jordan; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine/Lebanon] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to FCO Permanent Under Secretary of State PS ("Rhodesia: Senator Helms' Staff") [agreement of press statement, and UK concerns addressed, following US press leak] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to PUS PS ("Rhodesia: Consultation with the Americans") [background to a US press report of an alleged UK Government complaint about the activities of Senator Helms' staffers] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eliot Janeway) [Democratic/Republican Presidential candidates; PLO; Rhodesia] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2948 to FCO (2330Z) (“U.S. wage and price policy”) [“fighting inflation is top priority”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [IMF/World Bank meetings: SDRS; NEDC membership; Enterprise Zones; exchange control; mortgage rate increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor - Thursday 4 October") [Howe's report on Commonwealth Finance Ministers & IMF/World Bank meetings; SDRs; world economic assessment; NEDC membership; enterprise zones; exchange control; mortgage rates] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Amendment of the 1958 US/UK nuclear defence agreement”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington letter to No.10 (background to Senator Helms' alleged intervention in the Rhodesia conference) [character analysis] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Senator Helms (Rhodesia Conference) [outline of UK position] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Brezhnev letter to MT (Berlin speech proposals) [“we do not seek military superiority”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement: Dr. Aaron’s visit”) [Wade-Gery, David Aaron] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Carter (modernisation of the UK nuclear strategic deterrent) [replacement of Polaris] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 minute to MT (death of President Park Chung Hee) [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 79 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Secure telephone link to the White House") [offer of free US loan of equipment to UK, France and West Germany] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Soames, Keith Joseph, Giscard d'Estaing, Francois-Poncet, Giraud, Sauvagnargues) [US Presidential candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: FCO briefing for MT ("Courtesy Call on the Prime Minister by the King and Queen of Tonga at 16.15 on 4 December") [background; brief on UK aid; personality notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Tupou IV) [oil in Tonga's off-shore waters; Cambodia; relations with China and Taiwan; Vietnamese refugees; Tongan economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future of the strategic deterrent”) [“key decision… will affect our… defence over the next 40 years”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Replacement of the Polaris”) [US Deputy National Security Adviser visit to UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future of the strategic deterrent”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4134 to FCO (2314Z) (“Summary of monthly economic report for the U.S.”) [“possibility of a recession”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: FCO letter to No.10 ('Belize') [re-election of Price Government seeking early independence with multi-national defence guarantee, to "a very large degree" British aim also; Guatemala and US however prefer status quo "with British troops on the eastern flank of Guatemala"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 79 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Visit to Washington - 17th December 1979 future of the United Kingdom nuclear deterrent”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Harold Brown) [Sino/Soviet relations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Harold Brown, Frank Cooper, Robert Komer, others) [meeting with US Defense Secretary: UK defence policy; Soviet defence budget; Western allies' defence budgets; Soviet education & technology; chemical warfare; defence technology specialisation in NATO; naval strength; Western naval presence in Caribbean; USSR/China; Middle East/Asia; Oman; Diego Garcia; AV8B aircraft; US/UK defence contracts] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT restricted meeting with President Carter) [Diego Garcia; China; Cambodia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Carter, Vance, Brzezinski, Lord Carrington) [“The successor to Polaris”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Chile") [restoration of Ambassadorial relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 4301 to FCO (2300Z) (analysis of MT visit) [Carter’s “inner conviction that Britain, through its Prime Minister, is his soundest international partner”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Jan 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi Arabia foreign policy") [Soviet invasion of Afghanistan] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell PS letter to No.10 (BNOC: oil prices proposal) ["2-tier price if all the African producers increase their prices"; MT requests further advice on arbitration] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Brezhnev’s statement”) [condemnation of US foreign policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 223 to FCO (2320Z) (“US economy”) [“recession had in fact begun”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris successor”) [Robert Armstrong, Zbgniew Brzezinski] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UKCS crude oil prices") [MT goes against Howe advice to avoid risking arbitration & potential ensuing higher prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by King Hussein on the Prime Minister on 23 January") [Regional stability; Afghanistan/Soviet Union; Arab/Israel dispute; sale of tanks & aircraft; Rhodesia; Iraq and Syria; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Oman & the Gulf; oil] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Ray Whitney to Geoffrey Howe (US-UK relations) [“there is a widespread fear among the incoming Administration of being ‘Thatcherised’”] [released 2017]
PDF 80 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 343 to FCO (2358Z) (“Treasury Under Secretary Solomon”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, John Moberly) [Iran/Afghanistan & Soviet motives; Arab/Israel dispute; Iraq and Syria; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Oman & the Gulf; oil] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 note to MT ("Sakharov") [background to his recent arrest] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 5 to FCO ("US Presidential Election Campaign: Senator Edward Kennedy") [report on Washington speech designed to relaunch troubled campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Afghanistan: forward planning: China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to H. Hornsby (credit support for trade with the Soviet Union) [clarification of UK policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("Oil prices and import targets") [Iranian prices; UKCS prices; import targets] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi internal") [report on "another violent incident in Qatif... anti-American feeling"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 642 to FCO (2145Z) (“Reactions to the US budget for FY 1981”) [“little enthusiasm”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Teelock) [Mauritian economy/politics; Diego Garcia; Afghanistan; Rhodesia; British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 7 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Carrington letter to No.10 (“Proposed Naval visit to China”) [“in keeping with our improved relations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchquer PS (relieving the pressure on mortgage rates) [proposal for financial institutions to pay interest on borrowed money in order to lend tax free to members] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Yalta Victims Memorial") [proposed amendment to wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: MT letter to Lord Bethell (Memorial to the Victims of Yalta) [wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington, Cyrus Vance) ["Saudi Arabia"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Future United Kingdom Defence policy”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Saudi/West relations") [Ambassador Craig, Prince Fahd record of discussion: Palestine] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine letter to Lord Bethell ("Memorial to the Victims of Yalta") [disagreement over wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Afghanistan: controls on the transfer of technology to the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Defence sales to China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Feb 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Polaris successor”) [UK/US co-operation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 11 to FCO (“US economic problems”) [“crisis stage”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine letter to Lord Bethell ("Memorial to the Victims of Yalta") [disagreement over wording of inscription] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 968 to FCO (2347Z) (“US economic problems”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Heseltine PS letter to Peter Blaker PS ("Inscription Proposed By Yalta Victims Memorial Appeal Steering Committee") [disagreement over wording] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [Budget; EMS; Turkish application for membership; German challenge to UK restraints on US synthetic textiles imports] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: FCO briefing for MT (Saudi Arabia) [MT dinner with Speaker, "when she will meet with Shaikh Yamani": points to make; essential facts; biography; guest list] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1190 to FCO (0435Z) (“President Carter’s anti-inflation package: initial reaction”) [not well received] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO letter to No.10 (reply to Carter letter announcing economic package) [reducing inflation and oil consumption] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement”) [Wade-Gery, David Aaron] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 ("Policy Towards the Soviet Union") [FOC paper 'The Prevention of Soviet Expansion in the Developing World"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 80 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Polaris replacement”) [negotiations with US] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Harry Boyne note to Richard Ryder (US Ambassador) [“H.E. is continuing his practice of meeting trade union leaders over lunch”] [released 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement: Komer negotiations”) [Robert Wade-Gery, Frank Cooper, Robert Komer] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Gilmour letter to Pym (“Defence sales to China and COCOM”) [US interests] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Ponomariev”) [speech expressing hostility to US & UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (2045Z) ("US Presidential Campaign: Pennsylvania") ["seen as a last chance for Kennedy and Bush to stem the tide running in favour of Carter and Reagan"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Conversation with Mr. Carbaugh at 10 Downing Street on Thursday 24 April 1980") [Michael Alexander, John Carbaugh: US defence policy; request that MT make case in Parliament for increased defence expenditure; Rapier programme; Republican nominee: request that MT meet with Reagan to support his campaign; funds for Reagan campaign; Namibia] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“British underground nuclear test”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("TV film") [Saudi reaction to 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Bonn telegram 370 to FCO (1418Z) ("Muskie") [West German reaction to appointment as Secretary of State] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Message for Prince Fahd") [accusation of UK media bias, exemplified by recent 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary; UK/Saudi relations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Message for Prince Fahd") [proposed strategy for repairing the damage to UK/Saudi relations due to 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Arab League ambassadors) [UK/Saudi relations following screening of 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary; concerns about wider bias against Arab states in UK media; current tensions in Middle East] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Harry Boyne note to Richard Ryder (US Ambassador) [“H.E is giving lunch to the whole TUC General Council”] [released 2014]
PDF 80 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Adam Butler letter to Ian Lloyd MP (INMOS) [Lloyd visit to Colorado Springs;location of UK factory] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Adolfo Suarez) [extract - EC; Middle East; UK/Saudi relations following controversy over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires ("US/UK Consultations: UK Talks on Falkland Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 80 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (Chevaline flight trial) [Polaris] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (IMF Interim Committee & IMF/World Bank Development Committee meetings) [main points from Howe's attendance at most recent meetings] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Polaris successor system”) [proposed talks with US National Security Adviser] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: FCO briefing for No.10 (MT meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Conservative Friends of Israel) [PLO, Camp David, West Bank] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Taoiseach's visit") [internal politics; N. Ireland; international dimension; EC; trade; world economy; industrial relations/Employment Bill] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 80 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Freitas Do Amaral, Almeida Mendes, Julian Bullard, Lord Moran, David Hannay) [Sá Carneiro car accident; accession to EC; pre-accession aid; textiles; free movement of labour; USSR/Afghanistan; NATO/use of military facilities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1400Z) ("Contacts with Mr Reagan's Advisers") [John Carbaugh, aide to Senator Helms: request for channel of communication to No.10] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Official visit by the United Nations Secretary-General, 20-23 May 1980”) [global issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kurt Waldheim, Brian Urquhart, Donald Maitland, Anthony Parsons, Antony Acland) [Iran, Afghanistan, Middle East, Namibia] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Haughey, Carrington, Atkins, Lenihan, Eamon Kennedy, Robert Haydon & others) [Lebanon; US; Iran; Afghanistan/Soviet Union/Olympics;EC budget & Presidency] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 80 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("King Hussein's Visit to Britain") [Hussein stresses need for Middle East peace process to include US, Soviet Union and Western Europe] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, Jordanian Ambassador) [Arab/Israel dispute; Saudi Arabia; Gulf; Iraq; Algeria; Libya; Syria] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (meeting with King Hussein) [Arab/Israel dispute; Saudi Arabia; Afghanistan; regional security; Iraq; Hussein visit to Moscow; UK military sales to & training for Jordan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“MISC 7”) [Polaris replacement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing to No.10 (“MISC 7: future of the United Kingdom strategic deterrent: present position”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Brown, Pym) [Top Secret annex on Polaris replacement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Prior minute to MT ("INMOS") [further Govt funding; private capital] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 32 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States for May 1980”) [“growing signs that recession will be quite deep”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Cossiga, Colombo) [Presidency of the Commission; Middle East] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("INMOS") [decision on future public funding; Parliamentary debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 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]
PDF 80 Jun 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington PS letter to Pym APS (“Defence sales to China”) [COCOM] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("King Hussein's Call on the Prime Minister on 24 June") [Arab/Israel dispute; visit to Washington; EC statement on Middle East] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Prime Minister Sharaf, John Moberly) [Arab/Israel dispute] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 939 to FCO (2229Z) ("Security Council - Angola") [vote on UN resolution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: MT letter to President Choi Kyu Hah (Korea Electric Company contracts) [MT (reluctantly) makes plea for GEC to be awarded nuclear power station contracts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 80 Jul 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister of Mauritius") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Harold Walter & others) ["Call on the Prime Minister by the President of Mauritius": Diego Garcia; Seychelles; British Council; BBC External Services] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister of Mauritius") [Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK willing to resume bypassing COCOM in future deals] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Microprocessor Awareness Project (MAP)") [case for further public funding] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sudan: FCO briefing for MT ("President Nimeiri of the Sudan") [Ethiopia/Eritrea; the President's health/observance of Ramadan] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Jack Straw MP (Lancashire textile industry) [follow-up to meeting with Straw and Winterton] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (2335Z) ("The Republican National Convention, Detroit 14-17 July") [report on Reagan's endorsement as Presidential nominee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Fraser letter to MT (South Pacific) [impressions from the annual South Pacific Forum meeting: self-governance; storage of nuclear waste; UK/Australian joint interests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tim Lankester minute to MT (INMOS) [location in South Wales/regional grants] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 37 to FCO ("Republican Party Energy Policy") [summary & analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Atkins letter to Keith Joseph ("De Lorean sports car project") ["...the Company would actually collapse by about the end of August unless extra funds are forthcoming..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sudan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nimeiri) ["Call by President Nimeiri": UK aid; relations with neighbouring countries; domestic policy; Ethiopia/Eritrea/Somalia; Uganda/Tanzania; Chad/Libya; Organisation of African Unity summit/Middle East; Zimbabwe] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office letter to Whitelaw PS ("Menwith Hill") ['New Statesman' article on US National Security Agency activities] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2619 to FCO (0030Z) ("U.S. Presidential Election") [Democratic Party Nominating Convention/Billy Carter affair] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2620 to FCO (0100Z) ("U.S. Presidential Election: consequences of Anderson's candidacy") ["the peculiar circumstances of this election, and of Anderson's candidacy in particular, are likely to provoke more than the usual nervousness and distraction within both Congress and Administration over the next few months"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2631 to FCO (2300Z) ("The US Economy and the Presidential Election") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser (South Pacific) [current issues; Australian/UK joint interests; US proposal to store nuclear waste on Palmyra] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Gilmour minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Aug 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (“Polaris replacement”) [Robert Wade-Gery, David Aaron] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Aug 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3695 to FCO (2145Z) ("Billy Carter: President Carter's press conference") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT (Rolls-Royce Corporate Plan) [long term strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 42 to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for July 1980”) [“decline in US economic activity is continuing”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Aug 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Director of INMOS Ltd (invitation to visit INMOS) [declines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg ("IMF/IBRD and the PLO") [International Bank for Reconstruction & Development: vote on resolution to prevent PLO becoming observers: "a change of position would dismay the Americans"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Aug 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3779 to FCO (2345Z) ("Democratic National Convention, New York, 11-14 August") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: UKE Seoul telegram to FCO ("Resignation of President Choi") ["clears the way for Chun's election as President... even the American were taken by surprise... business circles... resigned relief.... politicians, academics and students... in considerable disarray"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 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]
PDF 80 Aug 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3834 to FCO (2300Z) ("The outlook for a second Carter term") [assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO (Lord Carrington's visit) [summary of meetings; diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3847 to FCO (2145Z) (“Economic package”) [stimulating investment] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Aug 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3869 to FCO (1848Z) (“Economic package”) [stimulating investment] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Anglo/Saudi relations and the Middle East") [diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary; Israel/US/Soviet Union] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of M. Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League") [Palestine/Israel; Afghanistan/USSR; Anglo-Saudi relations; Euro-Arab dialogue; diplomatic status for the Arab League Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chedli Klibi, Julian Bullard, Omar Hassan) [Secretary General of the Arab League: Palestine/Israel] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Oppenheim letter to MT (Los Angeles power workers' strike) [contrast with UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (Call by King Hussein on the Prime Minister) [Arab/Israel dispute] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Sir John Graham, Ibrahim Izziddin) [Arab/Israel dispute; Lebanon; Libya; Syria; Saudi Arabia; North Yemen; Gulf; Iran] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Sir Ian Gilmour APS letter to No.10 (“Global negotiations at New York”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3979 to FCO (2330Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [participation in first televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram 1258 to FCO (0325Z) (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Nott letter to Carrington (“Trade with the Soviet Union”) [protecting UK’s competitive position] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Sir Ian Gilmour minute to MT (“UN special session: global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKDel IMF telegram ("IMF: world economic outlook") ["broad agreement on the serious state of the world economy, and particularly on the very serious problems faced by at least some non-oil developing countries"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Nott letter to Director of ‘Low Pay Unit’ (‘Trouble Looming’ report on the woollen industry) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4087 to FCO (2358Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [first televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Pym minute to Carrington (“China - proposals to modernise Luda class destroyers”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Saudi relations") ["assessment of the post-reconciliation position... most responsible Saudis, although upset by the film ['Death of a Princess'], think it was a mistake to react so violently"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Rolls Royce and Airbus") [engine financing negotiations; Saudi deal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Angus Maude minute to all Ministers ("US Presidential Election") [participation radio & television programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph record of conversation ("Rolls-Royce Corporate Plan") [Keith Joseph, Adam Butler, Frank McFadzean] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT (“Tank Policy”) [procurement collaboration with NATO allies] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: President Carter message to MT (Presidency of the World Bank) [nomination of Alden Clausen to succeed McNamara] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“The Soviet Union and aid”) [communist aid to the Third World] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("President of the World Bank") [MT endorses nomination of Clausen for President of World Bank] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4459 to FCO (2355Z) ("US Presidential Election") [polls; electoral system; hostage crisis; analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
Info only 80 Nov 4 Tu Chronology Key [Chronology] Reagan elected US President
PDF 80 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Moscow telegram 696 to FCO (1515Z) ("US Elections") [Soviet reporting on/reactions to results] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4499 to FCO (2135Z) ("U.S. Presidential election") [analysis of Reagan/Carter campaigns & results] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Health of the Alliance”) [proposed review of NATO to reduce UK contribution to budget] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Paris letter to FCO (US election result) [notes MT likely to get on particularly well with Reagan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT message to President Carter ("Successor to McNamara") [MT endorses nomination of Clausen for President of World Bank] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President-elect Reagan letter to MT (thanks for her congratulations) [looks forward to another meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Alex Fletcher PS letter to No.10 (record of US visit) [trade mission] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4538 to FCO (0105Z) ("US elections") [analysis of results] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Health of the Alliance”) [proposed review of NATO to reduce UK contribution to budget] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Paul Johnson (US elections: thoughts on Reagan's victory) [American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; "a note to thank you for your assessment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK seeks to reassure allies] [declassified 2013]
PDF 80 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Nott minute to MT (“Textiles”) [“we have some difficult decisions to take”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram 1848 to FCO (0010Z) (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 letter to FCO (“Contacts with the Reagan team”) [proposed MT first meeting with Reagan as President] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4678 to FCO (2325Z) ("President-Elect Reagan") [analysis of character and likely policies & priorities on assuming office; probable key advisers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UK delegation to CSCE in Madrid to FCO (“CSCE review meeting: general view”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4667 to FCO (1755Z) (“U.S. press coverage of British economy”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Nov 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Gilmour letter to Nott (“Textiles”) [US imports, Multi-Fibre Arrangement, Hong Kong] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram 1414 to FCO (0020Z) (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Textiles”) [proposed items for next OD(E) meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4785 to FCO (0125Z) ("The transition: appointments to Mr Reagan's Cabinet") [speculation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Atkins minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Sir Lawrence Kadoorie") [Hong Kong & Guangdong nuclear power station projects] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Japanese Foreign Minister, 9-10 December") [oil prices; Middle East; EU restrictions on trade with Soviet Union; Japanese foreign aid & defence expenditure; trade imbalance; industrial collaboration; prospective visit from Japanese royal family for Royal Academy Great Japanese Exhibition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4851 to FCO (0150Z) ("The Reagan Transition: Cabinet Appointments") [timetable; Al Haig] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Vice President Mondale letter to MT (Carter Presidency and the UK) ["superb relatioship"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Textiles”) [industry concerns about lack of government support] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador) [oil prices; Middle East; MT views on Carter and Reagan administrations; MT views on place of human rights in foreign policy; Poland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4879 to FCO (2055Z) ("The Reagan Cabinet") [appointees; biographies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Nott PS letter to No.10 (“Textiles statement”) [US imports and energy prices] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Credit terms for business with the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4957 to FCO (0040Z) (foreign policy of the incoming Administration) [Ambassador Henderson, Richard Allen: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4988 to FCO (0016Z) ("Reagan Cabinet appointments: Press Conference") [Haig Q&A; Haig; Kirkpatrick; Edwards; Watt; Pierce: biographies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Gilmour letter to Keith Joseph ("Guangdong nuclear project") [MT raises concerns over terms of Anglo-French package] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Lord Carrington minute to OD colleagues (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4998 to FCO (0035Z) ("Reagan Cabinet: Secretary of Agriculture") [biog & assessment of new appointee, Block] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4999 to FCO (0043Z) ("US Presidential Appointments") [biogs & assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 5005 to FCO (1755Z) ("Presidential transition: General Haig") [Haig's dismissals & appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 5015 to FCO (0005Z) ("The Reagan Cabinet") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 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]
PDF 81 Jan 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 73 to FCO (2100Z) ("Visit to the US of the Reverend Ian Paisley") [Paisley keen to accept accidental invite to Reagan's inauguration] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 87 to FCO (2350Z) ("Confirmation Hearings on Secretary of State Designate Alexander Haig") [report: Watergate; Haig's views on US foreign policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 85 to FCO (0035Z) ("Appointments at the State Department") [biogs of Eagleburger, Rashish & Stoessel] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Bonn telegram 31 to FCO (1615Z) ("Appointments at the State Department: Walter Stoessel") [West German reaction to former US Ambassador's appointment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 119 to FCO (2347Z) ("Confirmation Hearings on Alexander Haig") [report; Chile; Watergate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 132 to FCO (2250Z) ("Confirmation Hearings on Alexander Haig") [report; Cambodia; Chile; Watergate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Carter letter to MT (US elections) ["my appreciation for your personal support, counsel and friendship... During these past years"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Vice-President Mondale (US elections) [courtesy note] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Bonn telegram 47 to FCO (1020Z) ("The New US Administration: FRG views") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (inauguration) [congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Carter (US elections) [message to mark end of Carter's Presidency] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 205 to FCO (2245Z) ("The Reagan Administration") [appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 245 to FCO (2357Z) ("Reagan Administration Appointments") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (President Reagan) [evaluation by Dr Edward Luttwak] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Caroline Stephens minute to MT (Paul Volcker visit to London) [meeting with MT & Lawson] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 257 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's Government") ["some preliminary comments on the conduct of business, particulary foreign affairs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 286 to FCO (0050Z) ("Hostages: Washington Reception") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 314 to FCO (2220Z) ("Haig press conference: 28 January") [report on first press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas aid: Carrington PS minute to No.10 (“The 6th replenishment of IDA”) [MT disapproves of UK alignment with EC against US] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Relations with the Soviet Union”) [MT critical of re-negotiating Cultural Agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT speech to the Pilgrims’ Dinner) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Development Policy”) [MT: “The important thing is that we stand with the US”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (President of the World Bank: visit to UK) [MT agrees to meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Dr Andrei Sakharov") [hunger strike] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Official Visit of the Prime Minister of Mauritius: 10-13 February") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Meeting with Mr Volcker") [US economy; UK financial policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott, Carrington) [future defence policy/cutbacks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversations ("Ottawa summit and meeting of Personal Representatives") [Sir Robert Armstrong, Allan Gotlieb] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Volcker) [US economy; monetary control issues; Volcker findings as to opinion in London ("pretty nervous") and Europe (recesssion thought to be deepening)] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Ringadoo, Harold Walker & others) [Communist domestic political opposition; sugar trade; UK aid loan; Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (“A Review of NATO”) [objectives] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Exports of flour to the USSR”) [US embargo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“International Development Association: 6th replenishment: bridging arrangements: Parliamentary timetable”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Future of Rolls Royce") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Handling of political questions at Ottawa summit") ["we shall need to consider what preparations should be made in advance"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Call by Prime Minister on Mr Tugendhat on 19 February and M Thorn on 20 Feb") [EC issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT visit to US) [inauguration] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February 1981") [complete set] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott PS letter to No.10 (“A Review of NATO”) [“substantive worries on the Americans’ part”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Washington) [talks with Reagan; meetings on the Hill; US space programme budget cuts; honorary degree ceremony; Donovan award; Economic Industrial Lunch] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US/Central America: UKE Washington telegram 636 to FCO (2012Z) ("US/El Salvador: media coverage of European attitudes") [wariness noted; Administration making the issue "its first test of European solidarity"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“26th Congress of the CPSU: Brezhnev’s speech”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) US/Central America: FCO public statement ("El Salvador") [USG information pointing to "gross interference in the internal affairs of El Salvador"; condemns violence "from whatever quarter"]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO record of conversation (MT-Economic Industrial lunch in Washington) [economic situation in Britain; Secretary Regan account of US policy; industrial policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO record of conversation (MT-GENEX) [visit to genetic engineering lab in Rockville, MD] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO telegram 360 to UKE Washington (1555Z) (Donald Regan criticism of UK economic policy) [Regan ‘plain talk’ ruffles diplomatic feathers during MT visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 4 to FCO (0405Z) (“edited extracts of the Prime Minister’s tv interview) [foreign policy, arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 714 to FCO (0800Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Afghanistan/Pakistan”) [“there seemed no risk at the moment that Pakistan’s position would change markedly”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 716 to FCO (0810Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Falkland Islands”) [“Our aim was to keep the dialogue going and avoid a crisis”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 708 to FCO (0730Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: review of the Alliance”) [Haig said “the prospect of another round of Alliance studies … was a personal nightmare”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 707 to FCO (0724Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Middle East”) [“although there were some differences of emphasis betwen the US and European views, the two sides were to some extent of a single mind”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 712 to FCO (0750Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Belize”) [prospects for a settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 717 to FCO (0814Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: bilateral relations”) [US visa requirements, US licensing of exports] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 715 to FCO (0805Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: North/South summit”) [Reagan would attend if postponed and Castro not present] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 709 to FCO (0734Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: arms control”) [Carrington “emphasised the need for the Europeans to be reassured that the new administration would continue the two-prong approach to TNF”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 710 to FCO (0737Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Namibia”) [“Haig said that the new administration were taking a careful look at the complex of Southern African problems”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 711 to FCO (0740Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Zimbabwe”) [Carrington “asked that the new administration should show maximum generosity towards Zimbabwe at the donors’ conference”] [declassified 2014]
Info only 81 Mar 1 Su Chronology Key [Chronology] Northern Ireland: second Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct with ten deaths)
PDF 81 Mar 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 721 to FCO (1830Z) (“Visit of the Prime Minister and Lord Carrington to the USA: 25-28 February 1981”) [Reagan said he looked to the visit “as that of a leader who had a similar approach to international issues and economic policy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Tebbit, Keith Joseph, Nott, Armstrong, Ibbs) ["Future of Rolls Royce"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE London ("Secretary's Meeting with British Foreign Secretary Carrington, February 27, 1981: Falkland Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister’s visit to Washington”) [proposed messages to Schmidt and Giscard] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 (“French wheat sale to Soviet Union”) [UK registers protest at US green light for deal] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Statement on the Defence Estimates 1981”) [“fundamental review to match defence commitments”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lord Carrington minute to Howell ("France and North Alwyn Gas and the Seventh Round Licensing") ["[the French] response should determine your announcement of awards to them"; distribution of license awards amongst UK, European & US companies] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to British Aerospace (AV8B and Hawk aircrafts) [while in Washington MT “took every opportunity to encourage the Americans to buy British defence equipment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Ingham letter to Peter Hall (MT’s visit to Washington) [“The truth is that this was not a newsy visit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Messages to President Sadat and King Hussein“) [briefing on MT visit to US, and invitation to visit UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador, Julian Bullard) [“Message from President Brezhnev”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Bulend Ulusu: July 1981") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London telegram to State Department ("Britain Searches for Solution to Falkland Islands Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 81 Mar 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Soviet contacts”) [MT unhappy with Carrington proposal to renew contact without US consultation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (“Visit to Washington”) [conversations between Nott, Weinberger and Haig] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 17 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr. "Tom" Clausen") [President of tthe World Bank: likely topics for discussion with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Clausen, McMillen) [meeting with President of the World Bank: US economy; UK economic strategy; Bank's role in recycling of oil money; principles & role of World Bank & IMF; proportion of UK aid; increased visibility for capital projects vs increased credit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Marten, Clausen, McMillen) [meeting with President of the World Bank: bilateral aid; politicisation of World Bank; proportional representation; World Bank's role in assisting developing countries; reduction in US and other countries' support & new strategies to compensate] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Biffen minute to MT (“US textiles”) [UK at odds with EC over imports issue] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Gromyko”) [Gromyko conversation with Curtis Keeble] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Rolls-Royce") [collaboration with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 985 to FCO (0200Z) ("Call on Haig") [record of conversation: Henderson, Haig, Veliotes, Eagleburger] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1002 to FCO (2311Z) ("Secretary Haig: crisis management") [report on Reagan's decision to allocate responsibility to Bush, and Haig's reaction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to Department of Energy (“Co-operation with the US on Fast Reactor Development”) [US Energy Secretary “enthusiastic about the idea of such collaboration”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: US Embassy in Argentina telegram to State Department ("Falkland Islands Negotiations: The View from Buenos Aires") [published 2015]
PDF 81 Mar 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT (Donald Regan visit to London) [meeting with MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Meeting between the Secretary of State and Chinese Foreign Minister, 1 April”) [conversation between Lord Carrington and Huang Hua] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Apr 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Brezhnev’s message to the Prime Minister”) [MT response - rules out “talks at all levels”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [case for abolition] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by King Hussein on the Prime Minister") [military equipment sales; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Syria; Iraq] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King Hussein, Jordanian Ambassador) [exchange of reports on Haig visit to Jordan & MT visit to Washington; Arab/Israel dispute/Palestine; Syria; Iran/Iraq; Rapid Deployment Force; North Yemen; Egypt; Tornado MT visit to Gulf] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Call by Mr Haig on the Prime Minister on 10 April (4.30 pm)”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram 2645 to State Department (1915Z) ("Army Chief of Staff Meyer's visit to Argentina: a substantive and public relations success") [Galtieri pleasure expressed to US Ambassador - "all past differences with the US can be put behind the two governments as relations enter a constructive phase"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Secretary of State Haig, Lawrence Eagleburger) [Middle East, India/Pakistan, Spain in NATO, USSR/Poland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Carrington, Gilmour, Haig, Lawrence Eagleburger) [Middle East] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Pentagom) Falklands: US Army Chief of Staff 'Shy' Meyer telegram to Ambassador Shlaudeman (1611Z) (visit to Buenos Aires) [thanks for help; finalising letter to Galtieri "on the initiatives which I proposed"] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (message of congratulations) [maiden flight of ‘Columbia’] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (“tête à tête discussion between the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham) [“Meeting between the Prime Minister and Mrs Gandhi”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham, Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao) [“The Prime Minister and the Indian Foreign Minister, Mr Rao”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shri R. Venkataraman, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham) [“Meeting at Rastrapati Bhavan… between the Prime Minister and … Minister of Finance, Government of India”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham) [“The Prime Minister and Mr. Mukherjee, Minister of Commerce and Steel”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKA Washington despatch to Lord Carrington (“The Reagan Administration’s economic policy - an initial assessment”) [assesses content, prospects in Congress & chances of success] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“US trade representative”) [visit to UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation to FCO (High Commisioner, Pakistan Charge d'Affaires) [“Prime Minister’s talks with Mrs Gandhi”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“US grain embargo”) [US notification of ending] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT letter to President Reagan (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [“warm personal regards… the world needs you”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (thanks) [assassination attempt and meetings with MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT (introduction of word processors to the Civil Service: agreement with unions) [Keith Joseph objection to guarantee of no compulsory redundancies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT letter to Indo-British Association (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [“Mrs Gandhi was marvellous”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Grain sales to USSR”) [reaction to lifting of US embargo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Carrington minute to MT ("Spain/NATO") ["in the aftermath of the attempted coup d'etat, Sr Calvo Sotelo's government [intends] to accelerate the application for Spanish membership of NATO... might be possible to settle the Gibraltar impasse at the same time"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ottawa economic summit) [probable key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Oman: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Oman”) [MT demands changes] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Sales of food to the USSR”) [reaction to lifting of US embargo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1406 to FCO (2102Z) ("State Department appointments") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: MT letter to Prince Abdullah (SANGMED project) [National Guard medical services/hospitals modernisation contract; MT privately notes disappointment at lack of media coverage for her role in securing the contract] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Edwards letter to MT (“Inward Investment Missions”) [report on visits to Japan and USA] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Rolls-Royce: RJ500") ["requesting approval for further expenditure... a number of important implications of the RR proposal need to be recognised"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Rolls Royce: RJ500") [launch; addtional expense/cash limit; collaboration with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Biffen letter to Joseph (Foreign Affairs Council meeting: trade with Japan) [balance of trade deficit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Rolls Royce: RJ500") [launch; collaboration with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Possible call on the Prime Minister by Governor Carey of New York State”) [Northern Ireland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: State Department research paper ("Argentina: a new President and old problems") [assessment of Viola; his civilian ties; poor relationship with Galtieri] [declassified 2017]
PDF 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Law of the Sea: Wade-Gery minute to No.10 (“Announcement of the Government’s decision to extend the United Kingdom Territorial Sea”) [“risk of… seriously upsetting the Americans is small enough to be acceptable”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: President Reagan letter to MT (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Carrington ("Chairmanship of the Interim Committee") [controversial appointment of MacEachen over Americans' favoured choice of Howe & its potentially negative consequences for IMF] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Political Co-operation") [addresses John Nott's misgivings - shared by MT - regarding Foreign Ministers' discussions on security, arms control, support staff for the EC President, and wider implications for sovereign defence policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Jun 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (“Visit of ex-Vice President Mondale”) [European defence] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: FCO briefing for MT (PLO observer status at the IMF/IBRD annual meetings) [King Khalid state visit to London] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Khalid, Lord Carrington, Nott, Hurd, Sir James Craig, Prince Sultan) [Israeli strike on Iraq; Palestine; Afghanistan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Trenchard minute to Nott (trade mission to US) [record of conversations with senior US officials] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Political discussion at the Ottawa summit") [East-West relations] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Meeting of Personal Representatives, 4 to 6 June 1981") [Ottawa G7 economic summit: key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UK delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev letter to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("International economic situation: US interest rate policies") ["We need... to think carefully about the line that the United Kingdom should adopt... I am very conscious of the need not to part company from the Germans over this"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Chancellor Schmidt's views on the German political situation, the Ottawa summit, and the Middle East) [Federal German Chancellory State Secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Visit of Mr. Trudeau") [Canadian High Commissioner, Sir Robert Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Carbaugh") [Michael Alexander, John Carbaugh: Namibia/Angola/Southern Africa; Cuba; US/UK defence policies] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Gilmour, Biffen, Jopling, Lord Bridges, Michael Pitfield, Allan Gotlieb & others) [France; W. Germany; forthcoming Ottawa G7 summit; Canadian domestic issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1987 to FCO (2225Z) ("Recent developments in Congress on Reagan's proposed public expenditure reductions") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit - objectives of participants") [Trudeau] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Ottawa summit: North/South item") [spending on foreign aid] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2023 to FCO (2207Z) (“President Reagan’s economic recovery programme: the present position”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2034 to FCO (2010Z) ("Ottawa economic summit: U.S. objectives") [speculative assessment] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Economic summit") [G7, Ottawa: anticipated Italian position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit") [G7: anticipated French position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit") [G7: anticipated W. German position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with French and German Foreign Ministers on 5 July: Ottawa summit") [summary of discussion] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Carrington minute to Nott (“World Disarmament Campaign”) [line to take and strategy for counter-briefing the public] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2127 to FCO (2350Z) ("Trudeau's visit to Washington: 12 July") [summary of his meeting with Reagan in advance of G7 summit] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Ottawa economic summit") [summary of final preparatory meeting, with annexes addressing key issues] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2126 to FCO (2326Z) (“Prospects for the U.S. economy”) [“concern expressed by other countries”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Relations with developing countries") [minute presenting policy options & background briefing paper for forthcoming international summits] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 minute to MT (Eldon Griffiths visit to US) [negative press coverage; Northern Ireland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO ("Australian Prime Minister: North/South") [global negotiations on foreign aid] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Ottawa communique") [G7 summit; assessment of the draft] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to Chairman of Esso (Chairman of Exxon) [MT unavailable for proposed meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jul 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Arms Sales to the Middle East and Chile") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Jul 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Carrington minute to Nott (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Argentina Urges Acceleration of Negotiations") [published 2015]
PDF 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]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Atkins letter to Carrington (“Ministerial visits to the United States during September”) [conveying UK government position on hunger strikes] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to Howell (“UN conference on new and renewable sources of energy”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2303 to FCO (2230Z) (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to Rosalind Gilmore, Treasury (statement by Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System) [endorsed by Howe] [declassified 2012]
PDF 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]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2354 to FCO (2314Z) (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [“doubts have been expressed”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US economic policy”) [concern about high interest rates] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram 723 to FCO (2030Z) (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2418 to FCO (2327Z) ("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]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1212 to UKE Washington (1703Z) ("Angola") ["scarcely veiled threats of American withdrawal... somewhat ill-judged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1216 to UKE Washington (1130Z) ("Angola") ["We remain much concerned by continuing indications that the Americans contemplate pulling out"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola") [analysis of S. African position on Cuban withdrawal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 18 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Luanda ("US/Angola/Cuba") [US/Angolan talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (G7 summit) [forthcoming CHOGM, Nancy Reagan's visit to UK for Royal Wedding] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2486 to FCO (2329Z) ("Angola") [Portugese diplomatic efforts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2506 to FCO (2205Z) ("Angola/South Africa") [US reaction to news of S.African incursion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South African incursion") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Namibia/Angola") [Lord Carrington, Al Haig: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1266 to UKE Washington (1155Z) ("Namibia/Angola") [report of Al Haig conversation with Pik Botha] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Weinberger memorandum for President Reagan (“Weekly Report on Defense Activities”) [Nott outlines UK naval cuts; "My real concern is that deeper cuts may be required later"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 765 to FCO (0130Z) ("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]
PDF 81 Aug 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Haig message to Carrington (countering Soviet propaganda) [“pressing need to do a much better job”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 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]
PDF 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]
PDF 81 Sep 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2565 to FCO (2246Z) (“President Reagan and the economy”) [budget deficit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 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]
PDF 81 Sep 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand - East-West military balance) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses) [Anatoly Shcharansky case: MT asks FCO if more can be done to assist] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 81 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: GJW Government Relations letter to John Coles (Trident and other projects) [Marconi’s problems competing for US defence contracts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 81 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bernard Ingham minute to Clive Whitmore ("BNFL") [British Nuclear Fuels PLC: invitation to MT to visit their plants at Capenhurst & Risley in Cheshire] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer telegram to MT (“The state of policy in the United States”) [“pressing the Americans… to reduce their budget deficit”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2972 to FCO (2225Z) ("Northern Ireland: CBS '60 Minutes'") [proposed amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Malvinas/Falklands Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Rome telegram 398 to FCO (1615Z) ("End of IRA Hunger Strikes: Italian press reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2990 to FCO (1940Z) (“US economic recovery programme”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Pakistan: Press Conference concluding visit to Pakistan
PDF 81 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pakistan: UK High Commission Islamabad record of conversation (MT, Zia-ul-Haq) [“Prime Minister’s visit to Pakistan”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (US economy) [scepticism about anti-inflation programme] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 228 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [including report on Afghan media reaction to MT visit to Pakistan/Afghan border] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 81 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3048 to FCO (0101Z) (O’Neill statement on Daily Express claims) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3047 to FCO (0100Z) ( Daily Express comment on Four Horsemen and IRA nail bomb) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3078 to FCO (2228Z) (“Visit to the United States by Owen Carron MP”) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordanian purchase of air defence equipment from the Soviet Union") [Jordan's reasons for the purchase; possibility of Iraq/Soviet arms deal] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev message to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (King Hussein's call on the Prime Minister) [multinational peacekeeping force in Sinai; Lebanon/Palestine; Dead Sea Canal; Israeli excavations in Jerusalem; Iran/Iraq war; arms sales/contracts] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Henry Brandon, Brian Fall) ["Position of Mr Haig"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute: Pattison to Whitmore ("De Lorean") [summary of the steps taken within No.10 when informed by Nicholas Winterton MP of a "...possible commercial scandal... liable to break publicly in the very near future"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, Sir John Graham & others) [US arms sale to Saudi Arabia; multinational peacekeeping Force in Sinai; Palestine; Hussein visit to Washington; Egypt/Israel; Sudan] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Sir John Graham, Lord Carrington) [Lebanon; Oman; Libya; Chad; Morrocco and the West Sahara; Dead Sea Canal; sale of Tornados/P-110s; Khalid tank; military training courses; fundraising for Hospital of St John and Jerusalem] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Conservative Party Treasurer letter to No.10 (‘Cam Gears’ UK company export order procurement) [substantial order] [declassified 2012]

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