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PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser (Adams visa) [US eyeball to eyeball with Adams; "could not believe that it would be democratic America which blinked. Surely you won't"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Gerry Adams") [given visa; Lyne "did not mince words with Lake when he was telephoned to be told of the decision"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Adams/USA: contingency press line") [small modification following conference call between Renwick, Lyne and Meyer] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to FCO ("Gerry Adams: reactions") [State "extremely disappointed", 'scathing' about White House statement; Holl of NSC "unapologetic about the decision", "could not be separated from the more general feeling that something was fraying in the relationship between the US and the UK"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 46 to FCO (1425Z) ("Northern Ireland") [Taoiseach says publicly he will clarify aspects of Joint Declaration but not renegotiate; generally positive press reactions to issue of US visa to Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to President Clinton on Adams visa) ["to show Clinton that he has reached the limits of our tolerance, and should not take us for granted"; Major - "Pl. refer Tuesday when I'm in a calmer mood over this"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to Taoiseach) [new material on Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [US decision lead item on British radio & tv; newspaper coverage; Adams "trumpeting the fact that he was NOT asked by the US to renounce violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [PM and Foreign Secretary "agreed that our tactic must be to put Adams on the spot, and expose his evasions as directly as we can"; two car bombs in London since visa granted] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 267 to FCO (0515Z) ("Foreign Secretary's call on National Security Adviser, Washington, 31 January") ["FS spells out bluntly our position on Adams. Lake chastened but unrepentant, still hoping that Adams might produce something"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Speech by Gerry Adams in New York, evening of 1 February") ["rumours in Washington that [he] may offer some form of conditional ceasefire"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [terrible UK press, Adams using "the finest platform ever granted to the IRA to justify terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [Major deciding against message to President; US Ambassador to call at No.10 instead] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (evening) (Lyne-Seitz) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [No.10 calls in US Ambassador Ray Seitz - "need to find constructive ways of rebalancing the situation", distancing Administration from Adams's statements] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (0040Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["Adams offers nothing new" - account of his NYC speech] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 294 to FCO (0450Z) ("President Clinton on Northern Ireland") ["rejected Adams' call to pressurize the British Government on Northern Ireland"; says proposal for a US envoy "overtaken by events"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [contrary to US thinking, Adams visa "relieved rather than increased pressure on the Provisionals to end violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne calls Lake) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British thanks for "corrective action" in President's speech; conversation "amicable on both sides"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Press line on Northern Ireland: Wednesday 2 February") [PM wants "a very firm line in public comment today about Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Hume calls Lyne) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British misread Adams visit to US, which put him "under great pressure to refrain from violence and address the Joint Declaration"] [declassified Dec 2018]

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