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PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office letter to Home Office (Mercury Licence) [national security concerns about granting licence to Mercury rather than to Cable and Wireless] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Polygraph") [GCHQ pilot scheme: line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Teachers' Pay") [comments on Keith Joseph proposals for assessment/performance-related pay, and 1984 pay settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales)") [employees' contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [approves proposal to offer 3%; employee contributions to pensions; data and structural reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Paris telegram 221 to FCO (1035Z) ("Political Cooperation: Political Committee: 21/22 February 1984 Paris: Afghanistan: Soviet Prisoners") [applications for political asylum] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Prior minute to MT ("Shorts: corporate plan and privatisation") [required adjustments to balance sheet for current financial year; conversion of Government loan to equity in time to show on end-year balance; EFL for 84/85; the way forward] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Babcock: Pohang Steel Co.") [MT intercedes to ensure financial aid provided in support of securing contract] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John King) ["British Airways privatisation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Lane (Judicial Salary Structure) ["noted the points made in your letter... will be taken into account when Ministers... consider the recommendations of the [Top Salaries Review Body]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [budgetary discipline; financial guideline on agricultural spending; budget inequity; Spanish accession; Greenland; UK's 1983 budget refunds; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Keith Britto letter to John Wakeham (“Attitudes of Members of Parliament”) [ORC survey: “The Political Environment for Industry 1984”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (“Training for Jobs”) [correspondence between Rees and Joseph] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Budget: Tax Reform") ["It is right to shift the balance to taxing spending rather than earning...The direction is exciting. The only question is one of speed"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("The Budget") ["my reaction is that it is an economist's budget...should appeal to serious commentators...[creates] a host of losers, as well as gainers"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment note for record (meeting with Liverpool City Council) [“the Council was united in its determination to get what it wanted, if necessary by taking to the streets”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Timothy Raison PS letter to No.10 (“Crown Agents: statement to the House of Commons”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Ridley letter to Lawson (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [British Caledonian remittances blocked] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Stock Exchange Commissions”) ["a political triumph"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian President Pertini, FM Andreotti) [Lebanon, East-West relations, European Community issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: President Pertini’s toast at No.10 luncheon in his honour [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT toast to President Pertini at No.10 luncheon in his honour [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD to No.10 (Ships deployment in the Gulf area) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Baghdad to FCO (“Iraq-Iran”) [new Iranian offensive] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Common Agricultural Policy: Proposed Supplementary Levy on Milk”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: round 9: first day”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Brittan PS letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality etc”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Raison letter to Tebbit (Westland Helicopters) [cost negotiations/aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Dublin telegram 91 to FCO (0900Z) ("Post Stuttgart Negotiations: President Mitterrand's Visit") [report on Mitterrand's visit to Dublin] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 611 to FCO (0255Z) ("Presidential Press Conference 22 February") ["played a very difficult hand quite well"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker) ["Privatisation of BCG"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (Government spending on Universities) [apology to MT for wording of letter drafted for her signature, during the election to the AUT, and subsequently quoted against her] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Conservative Party Members' Brief ("East-West Relations") [MT visits to Moscow & Budapest; recent events & upcoming meetings; Howe quotes; arms control; Kinnock] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: DTI draft (letter to Sean Hughes) [job lossess in constituency “can only be combated by making the Borough an attractive place for industrial investment”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: European Elections Publications’ Committee minutes (“Howe Group”) [strategy paper, manifesto, information campaign] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Biffen PS ("Consultation documents") ["... [improving] arrangements for identification and handling... to meet recent criticisms..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [review of health expenses] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's discussion with Sir John Mason") [summary of the key points made by Sir John on acid deposition] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to MacGregor (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) ["You are under no illusions that your task as Chairman of the Coal Board is a tough one, but I am sure that you will not be intimidated"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Attack on Chairman of the National Coal Board) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Budget proposals"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (draft MT reply to Sean Hughes MP) [urban renewal to attract investment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bishop of Liverpool letter to Jenkin (situation in Liverpool) [“a generation which has already grown up with no prospect of work”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 614 to FCO (0436Z) (“President’s press conference: economic issues”) [“it was ironic that those who had demanded negotiations were now proving reluctant to enter them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO minute for Coles (“Visit of Mr Lubbers: 2 March”) [agenda for talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 617 to FCO (1836Z) (“Iraq-Iran”) [possible Iranian offensive] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq”) [contingency planning, diplomatic activities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKBIS telegram to FCO (“Defence Industry Contracts”) [revisions and amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 618 to FCO (1850Z) (“Arms Sales to Iran”) [US concerns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“A320 Airbus”) [Tebbit deal with BA Chairman] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke (Future of Hong Kong) [Hawke conversation with Zhao Ziyang] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Tebbit PS (launch of Austin Rover's Montego: request for message of support from Prime Minister) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (National Coal Board financial data) [unreliable; Colin Barker appointment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKREP Brussels telegram 48 to FCO (1140Z) ("Belgium and the French Lorry Driver's Dispute")[declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 628 to FCO (0049Z) ("Lebanon and the Middle East Peace Process") [Eagleburger, Leahy: record of conversation: Lebanon "a disaster"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (article on world economy by GATT Director of Economic Research) [Policy Unit analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Tebbit minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Power Project") [financial support for GEC bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [comments on draft paper by Department of Energy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislative Programme") [advice on prioritisation of Bills] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") [content; clearance; publication] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Call on Papandreou, 23 February: Cyprus”) [“Papandreou had been considering ways of escaping from the deadlock”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.1o Policy Unit minute to MT ("Contracting-out in local government") [Jenkin paper on progress to date and options for legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 (White Paper on the 1984 EC Budget) [draft for comments; proposed publication date; "This is the first White Paper which includes... UK contributions to and receipts from the EC budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Dumas, David Hannay, Guy Legras) [EC Budget discipline; Budget imbalance; new policies; common agricultural policy; EC enlargement; future meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Ministry of Agriculture press notice (“John MacGregor speaks on future CAP negotiations”) [“British Ministers are in there fighting to reach a settlement which is wholly fair to British farmers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 8 (Legislative Programme 1984-85) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 9 (Summary of Bids for the Legislative Programme 1984-85) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter for Governor Vargas de Rosas (thanking for the gifts) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT (“FRG Ambassador’s Call on the Prime Minister: 1030 on 28 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl: 28 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe message to UKE Paris (“European Community: Talks in London with Mr. Dumas”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Jenkin minute to MT (“Training for Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems") [MT requests more information on ASATs and arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (impact of company tax package on Nissan) [MT: need to mitigate effects of tax package on Nissan, "otherwise we shall be accused of lack of good faith"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram 375 to UKE Washington (1040Z) (“President Reagan and the London Summit”) [likelihood of Reagan accepting dinner invitation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute for Turnbull (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Crispin Tickell letter to Turnbull (Alan Walters’ Key Economic Issues for the American Enterprise Institute) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram 81 to UKMIS New York (1600Z) (“Iran-Iraq: Mediation”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to UKE Algiers (“Initiative to Encourage Further Mediation in the Iran-Iraq War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq”) [mediation: India and Pakistan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Pascall to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Reactions of the Markets”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Escalation of the War in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery (UK relations with South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“A320 Airbus”) [Tebbit deal with BA Chairman] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: round nine: dinner”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan, Lu Ping, Jiahuan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Meeting of OD(K), 27 February 1984: future of Hong Kong: assessment of 9th round of talks”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Meeting of OD(K), 27 February 1984: future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation (“Annex to record of conversation between Mr Richard Luce and Mr Lee Kuan Yew”) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [timing of announcement: “A decision is needed urgently”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“OD(K): future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 25 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 202 to FCO (0134Z) ("Lebanon: UN options") ["development... which implies a more substantial degree of Israeli withdrawal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations, Kohl/Mitterrand Meeting in Paris, 24 February") [report; monetary compensation amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Radio Free Europe) Hungary: Radio Free Europe Situation Report (MT visit to Hungary) [summary of press coverage]
Text 84 Feb 26 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Visit of Kohl to Paris: Craxi to Bonn") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Feb 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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