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Text 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Tebbit PS ("British Leyland") [MT request for Policy Unit note to be brought to Tebbit's attention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The National Health Service") [cost reductions; patients' charter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("Legislation in the 1984/85 Session") [procedure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Raison letter for Channon ("Turkey: Diesel Electric Locomotives") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Ministry of Defence letter to Cabinet Office ("Leak Inquiry: Cruise Missiles"") [background, and handling of the investigation] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem: Lady Young’s visit”) [“Danger of an early UDI probably receding”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting”) [proposed International Monetary Conference] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Nuclear Planning Group) [reduction of stockpile] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“The rising costs of defence procurement”) [cost-saving technology and comparison with Soviet spending] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Public Expenditure Survey: education") ["Several points of interest emerge from the DES minute of 21 October": local authority capital expenditure; university capital expenditure; university staff/student ratios; number of teachers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Michio Watanabe visit to UK) [request that MT meet with Watanabe "to discuss current Japanese-British relations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Reagan letter to MT (Lebanon) [way forward following bomb attack of 23rd October on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Gas prices") ["I have seen Peter Walker's minute of 20 October... I really do find it hard to believe that the difference between 5 per cent and 6 per cent could cause the problems he foresees. All we would be doing is compensating for inflation since the last price increase"; freeze on industrial prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 minute to MT ("BR statement") [report on Ridley statement's reception in Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: Governor General") [Deputy High Commissioner General Montgomery calls on Grenada Governor General] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [Bullard speaks with Prime Minister Adams of Barbados: "He had particularly in mind an SAS operation to ensure the Governor General's safety"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: General Impressions") [further details of Deputy High Commissioner General Montgomery's visit to Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada - Revolutionary Council") [personality sketches of members of the Revolutionary Military Council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO Sitrep ("ODEM: 1000, 24 October, 1983") [situation in Grenada and international response] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO telegram 1759 to UKE Washington (1350Z) ("Grenada") ["I and my colleagues see no grounds on which military intervention could be justified internationally unless it were required to protect lives"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Howe draft statement to House of Commons (situation in Grenada) [MT annotation: "No reason to think that military intervention is likely to take place"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [text of OECS statement: "The Authority of the OECS wishes to establish a peace keeping force...to restore on Grenada conditions of tranquility"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to MODUK ("Grenada: From Col Beaumont in Bridgetown for Cossec") [details of US intervention plan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [MT draft message to Reagan: "In short, I have serious doubts about mounting a military operation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Tebbit minute to MT (appointment of special advisers) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: Reagan letter to MT (bombing of US Marines barracks in Beirut) ["The United States will not be dissuaded by acts of violence committed by those who are seeking to prevent Lebanese political reconciliation"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Coles letter to Senator John Tower (thanks for arranging for MT's speech at Churchill Award dinner to be printed in the Congressional Record) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Duchess of Wellington (thanks for luncheon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Japanese-British relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to John Sparrow (thanks for letter) ["Thank you for asking about my eye. I have now recovered fully, and am back at full stretch"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles note to Cabinet Office (arrangements for Anglo-Irish Summit) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Membership of the Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy”) [proposed changes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (government announcements) [procedure] [declassifed 2014]
Text 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thinking of intervening) [declassified 2000]
Text 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (decided to intervene) [declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: discussion with EXCO”) [discussion on the latest round of UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: talks with the Chinese”) [“Cradock… suggests that we should change our tack and put forward our own ideas”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Hong Kong”) [first meeting of UK/China negotiations sub-committee] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram to FCO (“Visit of Tam Dalyell MP”) [allegations regarding sinking of the ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013]
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