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PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO situation report (“Libya: Sitrep No.7: 17 April 1986 (0630Z)”) [Tripoli, Gaddafi, European reactions, Libyans in UK, British hostages Beirut, Public Reaction, US evacuation Sudan] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to Conservative MPs (government position on Libyan crisis) [evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorism] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy) [party split 2-1 on US action] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[should signal interest in Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (Police Federation for Northern Ireland) [Eldon Griffiths MP proposal that MT meet with the Federation; records of Ministerial conversations with the Federation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya: UK reaction III”) [British deaths in Beirut, Heathrow bomb attempt “fueled further controversy over the Libya raid”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Security Council: United Kingdom confirms it will vote ‘no’ on resolution on central MED”) [resolution condemning US action fails to recognize Libyan involvement in terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein/IRA attack US British, and Irish Governments and defend Gadaffi in more explicit terms than usual”) [adoption of “a more prominent apologist role on Libya than is ordinarily the case”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sofia to State (“Bulgarian demarche to Uk on Libyan situation”) [concern over use of British bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Beijing to State (“Chinese tilt toward Libya: Embassy Security issue”) [additional security for US missions and personnel] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Charlie Price (thanks for his letter) ["vital to stand up to terrorism even though the price can be very harsh, as the murder of the hostages has shown"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (action in Libya) [“Your courage and strength is a source of great inspiration to all of us”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya will dominate) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Political Issues”) [MT found the draft statement “rather weak”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Eldon Griffiths") [attacks on the RUC; Tom King keen to be present at meeting but Policy Unit advises against] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [US actions against Lybia, New Zaeland ship visits, South Africa, South Pacific nuclear free zone] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Libya - further Irish reaction”) [Fianna Fail more critical, alleging military aggression] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Demonstration against US raid on Libya”) [number of protestors, police action] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Madrid to State (“International democrat union statement in support of US action in Libya”) [scourge of terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Dr David Owen (responds to his letter of 17 Apr) ["I reserved the position of the UK on any question of further action which might be more general or less clearly directed against terrrorism"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya dominates, Queen’s birthday] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [Libya and IRA; security situation; Molyneaux/Paisley; Intergovernmental Conference; RUC] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“London Times editorial on extradition treaty”) [political reaction to UK decision to allow US use of military bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Buenos Aires to State (“Demonstration at US stand - international book fair, Beunos Aires”) [three political groups identified as organisers] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, domestic politics, industry) [Europe finally acts on Libyan terrorism] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) [situation in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Weinberger (“London press conference on Libya”) [“Thatcher urgently needs our help in convincing the UK public”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Labour’s new programme) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eldon Griffiths) [role of the RUC in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 17th (Wallis Simpson’s death, Prince Andrew’s marriage, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, British Leyland) [confidential annex on immigration controls at London Airport] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: State to USE London (“Deputy Secretary Whitehead’s meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe, April 18, 1986”) [“Howe said the UK had paid a high doemstic, politcal price for its action on Libya”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Paul Johnson (thanks for writing) ["a very difficult time for me … your booklet on the seven deadly sins of Terrorism most helpful … sapping the will of civilisation to resist"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, domestic politics) [“Reagan warns Libya that no-one can kill Americans and brag about it”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with M Jacques Chirac: 26 April") [French domestic politics, Chirac's policies, Libya, east-west issues and arms control, bilateral issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya raid, Tokyo Summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Duchess of Windsor death, Libya) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speeches in Korea") [MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Mr Nakasone’s Political Prospects”) [Japanese domestic policy, economy, terrorism, Libya] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [draft reply to Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone’s letter to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell letter to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [MT disappointed with draft speaking note on economic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, law and order, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya, Economic Summit, Northern Ireland] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan message for MT (the forthcoming Tokyo Summit: talks on terrorism and economic issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [draft of the summit statement & draft telegram to President Chirac] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (the forthcoming Tokyo Economic Summit: economic issues & terrorism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [meetings about the summit: terrorism, agriculture, expansion of G5] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Northern Ireland Secretary") [meeting with Molyneaux and Paisley; Intergovernmental Conference; contingency plans for industrial disruption] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, Cabinet reshuffle) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Powell minute for MT (“Economic Summit: Briefing Meeting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“Japan: Terrorism”) [declaration drafting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe minute for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [UK line on summit topics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Powell letter to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [MT views on draft summit statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Gorbachev's message: Tokyo Economic Summit, East-West relations, arms control, terrorism, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, prison dispute) [“Worst nuclear accident in history”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for MT (Tokyo Summit: Soviet Nuclear Accident & International Terrorism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (briefing meeting for Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[response to Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Agent Resettlement") [agent has disappeared, a high priority target for PIRA] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Maekawa Report: Japanese Government Follow-up”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: US draft (“Terrorism and the Summit Partners: Some Thoughts by the United States”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Thomas, Giffard) [Tokyo Economic Summit: terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute for Thomas (Tokyo economic summit: representatives and arrangements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011]
PDF 86 May 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: General Declaration”) [final draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Political Declarations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to Powell (“Draft Declaration on International Terrorism”) [statements on international terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: speech") ["...the Prime Minister's stock is very high here... I think [MT] should seek to stretch the limits of what Israelis regard as 'thinkable'"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT notes (“Actions against Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (G7 Summit, Libya, Chernobyl, top salaries) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Immediate Reactions in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute to FCO (“Economic Summit: Statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Declarations by Candidates in Northern Ireland Elections") [consultation on proposal that candidates take an oath to neither support nor assist activities of proscribed organisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar (Tokyo Economic Summit: international terrorism, the developing countries, trade protectionism) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letter from UN Secretary General: draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE the Hague telegram to FCO ("European political cooperation: political committee: the Hague, 14-15 May: Arab-Israel") [eve of MT visit to Israel, May 1986; UK protests, but outvoted, on prospect of EU President meeting with Arafat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Letter to the Prime Minister from the Inter Action Council”) [draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel: speeches") [MT unhappy with draft: "...if I were to make this speech, I should have no chance whatsoever of influencing the government behind the scenes..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to President Hussain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh (Tokyo Economic Summit: declaration) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1350 to FCO (2340Z) ("US/Syria: Asad interview") [comments on Israel, on eve of MT's visit there in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Israel: briefing meeting") [Occupied Territories; Jordan; EC Presidency; Syria; Lebanon; Anglo-Israeli research foundation; counter-terrorism. arms & oil trade embargo; Argentina] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) ["continuation of... violence... as a form of pressure in the negotiating process... need for Governments... publicly to denounce the ANC... certain countries in Southern Africa continue to harbour terrorists... South African security forces were left with no option"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, tourism, Conservative leadership, pay reviews) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Helmut Schmidt (the Inter Action Council statement: topics relevant to the Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (violence) ​​​​​​​[violence should not be used as a bargaining chip] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1353 to FCO (0800Z) ("UK/US analysts talk on Syria: 20 May") ["...main points of agreement reached..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's visit: issues: Jordan/PLO") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's statement on foreign affairs to the Knesset") [Shimon Peres on terrorism, Syria, Lebanon, the Marshall Plan, Egypt, PLO/Jordan; on eve of MT visit to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egypt/Middle East") [Egyptian policy on MT forthcoming visit to Israel terrorism, Jordan/Palestine, Taba, Gaza, Syria/Iraq, Middle East development plan] [declassified Dec 2014]

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