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PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 minute for MOD ("Gulf Briefings") [group briefing arrangements] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to FCO ("Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [press briefing] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (EMU: launch of the British proposals for amending the EC Treaty) [timetable and press briefing] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Acts of Atrocity in Kuwait") [Information Department ask to have a look to the photograph album given to the PM] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Treasury letter to Transport Secretary ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["favour an agreement with the industry which allowed for a much shorter period of notice: perhaps no more than 24 hours"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [Government backbenchers; letter to all MPs setting out Government case in event of Commons debate Jan 15; reply to Cardinal Hume's letter; case against further time for sanctions; photos of the atrocities in Kuwait to be used to bring home Saddam's inhumanity; refusal of Saudi authorities to issue sufficient visas for British journalists] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Call by Chief of Defence Staff") ["The Prime Minister will want primarily to ask Sir David about a number of issues rising from his visit to the Gulf d the Cabinet discussion"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to FCO ("Call by Admiral Lanxade") ["Admiral Lanxade made clear that he had President Mitterrand's authority for his reassurance that France would fight"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for Prime Minister ("OPD(G): 10 January") [PM's visit to the Gulf; international situation; second round of UK/US talks; response tu partial and full Iraqi withdrawal;media handling; debate in Parliament; IEA stockdraw; cabinet 10 January; pattern of meetings in the event of hostilities] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for Prime Minister ("Cabinet, 10 January: Possible Military Action in the Gulf") [international situation; comments from Ministers on the possible conflict; possible debate in the Parliament; formal authority to the PM to commit British troops after 15 January] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for Powell ("Iraqi Options: Threat of a Pre-emptive Attack") [assumptions on possible targets and strategies] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Morris PS minute for Prime Minister ("Gulf Debate") [arrangement of short discussion on Parliamentary handling of the debate during OPD(G) 10 January] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Department for Transport minute for FCO ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["we must expect that airlines will withdraw services from areas where they foresee conflit, whether or not we offer re-insurance"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (EMU: Major's draft reply to Michael Butler) [hard ecu proposals helpful, but rejects need for European System of Central Banks] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of telephone conversation (Lamont, Bérégovoy) [UK tabling hard ecu/EMF treaty texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of telephone conversation (Lamont, Solchaga) [UK tabling hard ecu/EMF treaty texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Visit of the prime Minister to Oman - 8/9 January") ["the Prime Minister clearly established an easy rapport with the Sultan who was visibly flattered to receive such attention at this early stage of the Prime Miniter's term of office"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKMIS Geneva (1100Z) ("Gulf: Secretary of State's Conversation with Secretary Baker") [French initiative considered counterproductive; possible new Troika invitation to Tariq Aziz for a meeting in a different venue from Luxembourg; UN Secretary General's potential initiative not be discouraged] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg ("Gulf: Secretary of State's Conversation with the Luxembourg Prime Minister") ["if the Baker/Tariq Aziz meeting in Geneva is unsuccessful...no difficulty if Poos were to say publicly that the EC Troika invitation remained on the table"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Office telegram to Powell ("Iraqi Withdrawal from Kuwait: Immediate Reactions") ["things might not develop in a clear-cut way. Saddam Hussein might reject the timetable or the pattern of withdrawal we proposed. Or he might make some attempt to negotiate on these"] [declassified Jul 2018]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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