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PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [to be discussed at General Advisory Council on 30 Oct] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKE Bonn (“Quadripartite Discussion of Summit Seven Follow Up”) [British participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 6 to UKDEL Nassau (2030Z) (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2895 to FCO (1900Z) (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for UK help with Achille Lauro terrorist attack) [grateful & proud] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 20 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference at Nassau Commonwealth Summit
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") [Craxi's statements to Italian cabinet & parliament] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [cover note only: McFarlane said US working on arms control counterproposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT briefing cards (meeting with Reagan) [Achille Lauro, Gorbachev/arms control, UN speech, South Africa, SDI, Middle East, MSE, MBFR, Ireland, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, McFarlane, Ridgway) [arms control, SDI; Achille Lauro; South Africa; PLO] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Italian political situation, US-Soviet Summit, Achille Lauro] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 24 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech at 40th Anniversary Session of UN General Assembly
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute for Head of Chancery (“Achille Lauro/US-Italy Extradition Treaty”) [account of crisis from US Dept of Justice official in Italy] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong-Cradock) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland": joint courts; European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism; procedure and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (BBC interview with President Reagan) [transcript with key passages highlighted] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Oct 29 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 85 Oct 29 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Nassau)]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA Office of European Analysis talking points (“PLO relations with Italy”) ["pro-Arab, pro-PLO bias of Craxi and Andreotti"; Spadolini sharply critical] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [Young hoped GAC discussion previous day had exorcised the ghost of "Real Lives"; Milne agreed] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Achille Lauro: British involvement") ["very minor player" - Gibraltar, SIGINT, Akrotiri] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Dolours Rea (nee Price)": 1973 Old Bailey bomber) [King proposes to alter conditions of release; MT opposes: "do nothing. She got out of prison on a false pretence"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [suggested further amendments to Anglo-Irish Agreement, with Powell covernote] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Lord Hailsham PS (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to Deskby (1730Z) ("US NAC Briefing on Shultz's Moscow Talks") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") ["the most lasting effect in Italian eyes may be the memory of her unhappy experience at US hands"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 14 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Info only 85 Nov 15 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [improvements to compensation provisions for the dependants of public servants] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Brief for handling the plenary") [east/west, Falklands, Southern Africa, Middle East, bilateral relations, defence issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [EC press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3164 to FCO (1655Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [summary of President Reagan/Speaker of the House of Representatives joint press conference; UK Ambassador to the US, Oliver Wright: "In view of past and likely future rows, we might as well make the best use we can of harmony on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3167 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Congressional Friends of Ireland statement: message of support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3165 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [transcript of statement from the Quai] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs") [message of support & congratulations for Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [message of support & congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Paisley & Molyneaux letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["On behalf of the Unionist people of Northern Ireland, we protest most vehemently..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 15 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with Irish Prime Minister (Dr Garret FitzGerald)
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Press review 16 November") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [text & MT request for additional information] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: points for answers") [Parliamentary Debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd minute to Howe (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [hijackers have applied for asylum] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 17 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Home Office record of conversation (Hurd-Joxe) [domestic terrorism and Irish situation, Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Caledonia] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand - plenary session) [Channel link, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Middle East, terrorism, defence issues, trade and industry, research and technology, transport, EC issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [background information requested by MT on the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 18 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Anglo-Irish Agreement]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [summary of outcomes from interdepartmental review into compensation provisions for dependants of civil servants killed by terrorists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington minute to FCO (1415Z) ("US/Italy relations in the wake of the Achille Lauro affair") [detailed read-out from State Department] [declassified Jan 2010]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Taoiseach's speech") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Speaker of the US House of Representatives (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["I would like to thank you for the statement that you made at your joint press conference with President Reagan..."; US financial & economic assistance for Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Anglo-Irish Agreement and its repercussions: co-operation with the security forces; power-sharing) [Tom King, John Hume MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in Parliament: draft speech for the Lord President) ["As you know, events are moving rapidly, and we may well advise the Lord President to amend the speech before it is made"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd PS minute to Wicks (counter-terrorist exercise) [“a simulated take-over of an oil installation in the North Sea”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Agreement: Speech in the debate”) [draft] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Irish opinion poll") ["...2-1 in favour of the Anglo-Irish Agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, James Kilfedder MP, Peter Robinson, Jim Allister, Frank Millar, Jack Allen) [delegation from Northern Ireland Assembly, to discuss Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's speech in the House") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Northern Ireland Assembly delegation") ["You will want to make clear... that the Government is not going to be deflected from the Agreement. The Unionists should therefore focus on the benefits of the Agreement for them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (meetings of officialls on the next Economic Summit: drugs, terrorism, sub-Saharan Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office: Goodall minute to Private Secretary ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [press article written by Garret Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 26 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 85 Nov 26 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Anglo-Irish Agreement]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [forthcoming European Council meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Prime Minister from Sir Eldon Griffiths") [RUC anxieties over the Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [the Parliamentary debate & its possible repercussions; notification of Acceptance of the Agreement; first meeting of the Intergovernmental Conference; liaising with Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 27 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl)
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Social Security Review) [Ulster by-elections; Fowler review approved] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 28 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Howe ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [revisions to draft Treaty on Political Cooperation: restricting the scope of Article 1] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [speaking note: Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Reverend Ian Paisley MP (resignation from the House of Commons) ["My reason for this action is that I believe the Anglo/Irish Agreement is an Act of Treachery to the people of Ulster, a surrender to the IRA and Dublin, and destruction of the Union"] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 4 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after Luxembourg European Council
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 5 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Luxembourg European Council]
Text 85 Dec 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 85 Dec 13 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Belfast Telegraph
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [proposed deployment of additional battalion, background of PIRA violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison minute to Nigel Wicks (situation in Northern Ireland) [King apprehensive about situation deteriorating, feeling vulnerable and isolated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 957 to UKE Dublin (1715Z) ("Chief Constable's Alleged Statement") [wish to assure Irish government of commitment to continuing and developing cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [can make a start on replacing bombed buildings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (arms shipment) [shipment from the Netherlands to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
Info only 85 Dec 27 Fr Chronology Major [Chronology] Palestinian terrorists killed 27 at Rome and Vienna airports; Libya involved
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Jan 8 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Le Figaro
Text 86 Jan 10 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference for American correspondents in London
Text 86 Jan 13 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference for American Press (CSIS Group)
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [completion of projects will demonstrate government's determination to overcome PIRA campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKREP The Hague telegram 27 to FCO (1715Z) ("Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam") [arrest of two men who escaped from The Maze] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Jan 16 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Ruud Lubbers (Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam) [thanks for cooperation by Netherlands authorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Jan 21 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 Jan 23 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Resettlement of Army Agent") [one of UK's best placed agents has been compromised, resettled in Britain] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Jan 28 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 Feb 4 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Compromise of an Army Agent") [PIRA investigations will lead them to a very well placed agent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO briefing to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 12 March 1986") ["...it is always important to show the Italians that we take them seriously"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Orders in Council for Local Government in Northern Ireland") [powers to put Commissioners into local authorities with powers to set rates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (terrorist bombings in Paris) [message of support & solidarity to French government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("CFL ceremony at Canterbury: President Mitterrand's current preoccupations") ["...the elections increasingly dominate [his] thinking... But polls still show the RPR/UDF likely to win a clear majority. Terrorism has become an election issue in the last week."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [political downside of additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Feb 13 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1512Z) ("Canada") (NSC 0129) [Canada attempting to restrict imports of US films, the President said he could not blame them] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger, Wörner, Bullard and others) [UK forces in Germany; Westland helicopters; NATO; SDI; chemical weapons; arms control; Spain; environmental impact of training, European Fighter Aircraft; SP70; Nimrod AEW; anti-radar drone] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish relations") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: press interview with the Taoiseach") ["... the Agreement is no threat to [the Unionists]... In fact, [it is] in their best interests"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") ["...we must ensure he really appreciates just how strong is the unionist reaction to the [Anglo/Irish Agreement]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February 1986") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong/Nally record of conversation, for MT meeting with Taoiseach to discuss post-Anglo/Irish Agreement negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Feb 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King PS minute to Charles Powell ("Northern Ireland: Shooting Incident") [death of PIRA member] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10: Press Officer minute to Ingham & Powell ("Dr. FitzGerald's speech to the press gallery: 19 February) [Sellafield; Northern Ireland: security; terrorism; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [Anglo/Irish Agreement & the Unionists; Sellafield] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: meeting of Ministers on 20 February") [line to take for MT/Tom King meeting with Unionists regarding Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Feb 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley to discuss Unionist position post-Anglo/Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: White House memcon (President Mitterrand-Ambassador Vernon Walters) [possible cooperation over Libya] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to Tom King ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [deployment of additional battalion cannot become an open ended commitment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to Tom King ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [presentational handling of sending additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [provision of additional infantry battalion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Unionists to discuss the Anglo-Irish agreement) ["...facts and figures on the issues which are causing concern"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kinnock) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: assessment of the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Molyneaux and Dr. Paisley") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (Ministerial Group on Crime Prevention) [membership] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [presentational handling of sending additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Hume") ["...the primary aim should be to bring home to Mr Hume that without the SDLP commitment to political dialogue and devolution, and more wholehearted endorsement of the RUC, the [Anglo-Irish] Agreement could founder..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [contingencies for possible repercussions from Unionist rejection of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop Eames (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [outline of Government policy, following meeting with Church of Ireland delegation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, King, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Tebbit, Wakeham) [contingencies for anticipated Unionist strike action in response to Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Hume) [SDLP and Unionist positions following Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Feb 28 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Letter to Church of Ireland Primate (Rt. Rev. Robin Eames)
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“United Kingdom Presidency of the European Community: July-December 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("United Kingdom Presidency of the EC") ["The Foreign Secretary's minute... reports the outcome of OD(E)'s discussion on objectives and priorities"; summary of main points & advice; minute attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Toast at Lunch on Wednesday 12 March") [draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: agenda") [CAP price fixing; Tokyo economic summit; arms control & East/West relations; terrorism; extradition; scientific/industrial collaboration; aid; Anglo-Italian roundtable; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [deployment of additional battalion, Army protection of RUC stations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit meeting in Florence: Italian press comment") [extradition; terrorism; East/West relations; Tokyo economic summit; nuclear defence; EEC; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO briefing to No.10 (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [arrangements for end of summit; note on extradition treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, tête-à-tête] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Younger, Spandolini, officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Home Office record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Hurd, Scalfaro, officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Geoffrey Pattie, Craxi, Andreotti, Scalfaro, Spadolini, Granelli) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, plenary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT draft opening statement for press conference (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) ["...we found ourselves substantially in agreement..."; deletes joke about Sikorsky helicopter] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 Mar 12 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Bettino Craxi)
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French elections: Mitterrand") ["...undiminished appetite for power... expressed satisfaction about the state of Anglo-French relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 10th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1605Z) ("Libya") (NSPG 0129) [planning response to Libyan threats against US forces in the Gulf of Sidra; possible request to MT for use of UK-based F-111s; NSDD to be drawn up] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Chirac) [British hostages in Lebanon, Chirac's visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Terrorism: Oliver North memo for Poindexter ("US-UK Bilateral Talks on Terrorism, March 5, 1986") [topics covered by "semi-annual and very frank talks with the UK on terrorism"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [provision of additional infantry battalion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Glenholmes affair) [Home Secretary to make statement] [released 2017]
Text 86 Mar 24 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for The Times
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, British Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Glenholmes affair) [US operations in Gulf, review of extradition procedures] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [US action, MT backs Reagan] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [unionist attitudes to Anglo-Irish Agreement, unionist marches, contingency plans for strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea") [comments on draft MT dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute: Flesher to Powell, Wicks, MT (Tom King proposal for candidates at Northern Ireland Assembly and District Council elections to denounce terrorism) ["...obvious attractions but... implications for electoral law... [and] problems in making the requirement stick..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland") [situation over Easter; intimidation of RUC families; Molyneaux/Paisley letter; parades; election legislation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Response to Libyan Terrorist Attacks") [recommendations of Terrorist Operations Sub-Group after Berlin disco bombing] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Brookeborough and Lord Moyola to discuss the current political situation in Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish Agreement; devolution; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ["Northern Ireland": security; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (dialogue with the unionists) [Robert Armstrong, Irish Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [decisions needed in afternoon meeting] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland bombings, clashes in Wapping, law and order) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Poindexter ("Next steps: Libya") [draft memo for the President] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [draft letters to European leaders] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (attacks on RUC homes in Northern Ireland, prison officer strikes, industry, education) [released 2017]
Text 86 Apr 8 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (Guinness kidnapping) [PIRA believed responsible] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Your meeting with Genscher, 11-12 April: political situation in the FRG") [briefing for Howe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") ["...events of Easter Monday and the attacks by loyalist elements on members of the [RUC]... increasing polarisation in the unionist community and the question... [of] dialogue with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt (Berlin bomb) ["horrified … by the dreadful incident"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, Northern Ireland, education) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[Mandela's release should not be accompanied by an increase in violence] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter ("Letters regarding Libyan terrorism") [presidential letters to Mitterrand, Chirac, Kohl, Craxi, Gonzalez & MT] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Northern Ireland, GLC, Fulham by-election) [Reagan on brink of retaliation] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter (Libya) [message to Lubbers; instructions for Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: UPI report (Libya) [reports from Washingon that Weinberger dissenting from Libyan attack; MT asked for permission to use FB-111s]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Fulham by-election, economy) [US fleet on battle alert] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Vernon Walters ("Special instructions for Presidential Emissary Walters") [request overflight for FB-111s flying from UK (request then cancelled but too late)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Spanish PM Gonzalez letter to President Reagan (Libyan terrorism) ["I consider inappropriate the resorting to this type of war actions" (sic)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Oakley meeting at FCO, April 14”) [UK government working on “convincing justification” for intervention] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: USE The Hague to State Department ("EC Foreign Ministers April 14 Statement on Terrorism") ["gravely concerned … the twelve underline the need for restraint on all sides"]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President "sincerely appreciates" MT's stand; ""we will do everything possible to help you"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to Egyptian President Mubarak (Libyan terrorism) [explains US action] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 15th (Libya, Shops Bill) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Thatcher defends UK support for US strike”) [“Thatcher did not give Washington carte blanche”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 948 to FCO (0350Z) (“Libya crisis”) [text of Reagan broadcast] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 949 to FCO (0425Z) (“Libya crisis: Shultz/Weinberger press conference”) [“tolerance or appeasement of aggression has historically brought more aggression”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO briefing (“Colonel Quadhafi support for terrorism”) [“Quadhafi said that he would train, arm and protect Arab guerillas and other volunteers for ‘suicide and terrorist missions’”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your speech tomorrow (Wednesday)”) [concerns over Reagan “provoking Qadhafi” … “people are unconvinced about what precisely and how much the US action will achieve”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: US Information Service fact sheet (Libya) [US acting in self-defence, Reagan on US successes, questions and answers] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, law and order, economy) [Reagan attacks terrorist targets] [released 2017]
Text 86 Apr 15 Tu Press Key Shultz (George) Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs)
Text 86 Apr 15 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 Apr 15 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [US bombing of Libya]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Schmidt letter to MT (Final Statement by the Interaction Council) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
Audio 86 Apr 16 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("NSDD: Counter-Terrorist Operations against Libya") [targetting & additional planning] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President agrees with MT’s understanding of the situation] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Socialist International condemns US attack”) [“urges the US to ‘provide the evidence’ supporting terrorist claims against Libya”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Anglo-Soviet relations so far unaffected by British support for US strikes on Libya”) [“Soviets have taken no action against the UK”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - further UK reaction”) [Conservatives have “closed ranks”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Shultz (“Briefing the British”) [“The British should not feel shortchanged on privately communicated technical information”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to White House (“Libya - Support from Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“She could hardly have been more resolute as an ally and a friend”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Local reaction to US attack on Libya”) [“Irish Arab Liberation organisation” threats to retaliate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Reaction in Scotland to US action against Libya”) [demonstrations outside consulate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein protests Libyan bombing”) [“call on the US administration to cease all such acts of aggression”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Vienna to State (“US strike against Libya: Austrian reaction”) [initial reactions not favourable] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 978 to FCO (2359Z) (“US/Libya”) [US administration is “immensely appreciative”; "future benefits for us"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT draft speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [government’s decision to support US military action, “taken in self-defence, against terrorist targets in Libya”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT notes for speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [evidence we have of Libyan complicity] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: No.10 minute (Tony Baldry phone call) [opinion in Upper Heyford on US military action] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Sunday trading) [only Canada, Israel, UK back US] [released 2017]
Text 86 Apr 16 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [US bombing of Libya]
Info only 86 Apr 17 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Hindawi affair - Syrian attempt to bomb El Al 747 at Heathrow
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("CABO Cable to PM Thatcher and Message from you to Bianco") ["disappointment and confusion over the exact policy of France towards Libya"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 16th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Libya, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Soviets low key in protest to Britain over support for US strikes in Libya”) [“a ‘routine, low key’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sierra Leone to State (“Unofficial GOSL reaction to Libyan situation”) [GOSL not likely to take a public position on the bombing] [declassified 2013]
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]
Text 86 Apr 17 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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]
Text 86 Apr 18 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting Finchley (Libya)
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]
Text 86 Apr 21 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Letter to Dr David Owen MP (US bombing of Libya)
Text 86 Apr 21 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Granada Television
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]
Text 86 Apr 22 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Press Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Peter Barry press statement (murder of RUC member) [condemns PIRA attack] [declassified Dec 2014]
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]
Text 86 Apr 24 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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]
Text 86 Apr 25 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Trivial Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting Sunderland (terrorism)
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]
Text 86 Apr 28 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Written Interview for Newsweek International (Libyan raid)
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]
Text 86 Apr 29 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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]
Text 86 May 3 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference in Seoul
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 Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo G7 Communiqué (“Tokyo Declaration: looking forward to a better future”) [statements on international terrorism, the implications of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the economic declaration]
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]
Text 86 May 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (Tokyo G7)
Text 86 May 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for IRN (Tokyo G7)
Text 86 May 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after Tokyo G7
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]
Text 86 May 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 May 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Tokyo G7 Summit]
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]
Text 86 May 13 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 May 14 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at lunch for UN Secretary General (Perez de Cuellar)
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]
Text 86 May 15 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Powell minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Lobby briefing") ["The most important thing about the visit is the fact that it is taking place... we have no illusion that the visit will in itself move the peace process forward significantly"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT to Bob Dole (support for US military action) [“the Administration was right to take firm action against terrorism, and I have no reservations about the part which the United Kingdom was able to play”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egyptian views on Arab/Israel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...your thoughts about what I might say in Israel"] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 May 23 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for CBS
PDF 86 May 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Shamir) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: PLO, Jordan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: Gazan, Jordan, Syria, Marshall Plan, Iran/Iraq, US role] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 May 25 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at dinner given by Israeli Prime Minister (Shimon Peres)
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Rabin) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Palestinian delegation) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians: 26 May") [MT visit to Israel: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: meeting with Palestinian delegation; West Bank; Gaza; Lebanon; US hostages; Jordan; USSR; SALT II] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 86 May 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference ending visit to Israel
Text 86 May 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (visiting Israel)
Text 86 May 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for IRN (visiting Israel)
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians") ["All greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet Mrs Thatcher, and her comprehension of their concerns"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Occupied Territories") [controversy over MT comments on alternative leadership to PLO, during May 1986 visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Syria, Libya, terrorism: NSC notes of conversation (NSC officials, Cradock & Acland) [Syria, Lebanon, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s trip to Israel, litter, industry, terrorism) [released 2017]
Info only 86 May 30 Fr Chronology Major [Chronology] Stalker suspended
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["King Hussein is very grateful for... [MT's] efforts on Israel and looks forward to their meeting in London on 17 June"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (trespass, warship design, litter, Labour party failures) [released 2017]
Text 86 Jun 3 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 Jun 4 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Confidentiality of Normal Vetting (NV)") ["If, as a result of a breach, it became necessary to discuss NV with the Defence Committee... there should be no reference to the role of the police, who have co-operated... on the understanding that the practice would remain confidential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Rodgers letter to Michael Havers (Joint Irish Courts) [membership of three-man courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Brighton trial, law and order, education) [released 2017]
Text 86 Jun 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Labour party) [“Seen to be on the brink of a bloodbath”] [released 2017]
Text 86 Jun 13 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Channel 4 News
PDF 86 Jun 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT (Israeli record of Peres/Mrs Thatcher discussions) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, World Cup, law and order) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, arms control, post-Chernobyl, strategy team) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, lamb, pay, economy, defence) [released 2017]
Text 86 Jun 23 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Interview for Woman magazine
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, journalist expelled, Brighton bombers jailed) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, domestic politics, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
Text 86 Jun 25 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Forbes Magazine
PDF 86 Jun 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa apartheid, health policy, law and order) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Talks with President von Weizsacker: 2 July") [to discuss: east/west relations, Berlin, terrorism, South Africa, European Community issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Robert Armstrong, Walker speech on nuclear power) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Soviet Foreign Minister: Call on Prime Minister on 14 July (1500-1630)") [draft programme; attendees] [released Dec 2016]
Text 86 Jul 7 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Text 86 Jul 8 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for The Guardian
PDF 86 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Shevardnadze") [main issues] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shevardnadze, Cartledge) [message from Gorbachev ; East/West relations & arms control; human rights; terrorism; Afghanistan; Chernobyl] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (by-election, secretarial allowances, South Africa, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (South Africa, Commonwealth conference, by-election, MPs’ allowances) [released 2017]
Text 86 Jul 19 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Sunday Telegraph
PDF 86 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Chirac (INLA arrests) ["an immense encouragement to all those engaged in combatting terrorism in Ireland and elsewhere"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Baroness Young PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: President Botha's speech") ["the defensive line our News Department will take today, about which we have consulted Geoffrey Howe"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1503Z) ("Libya") (NSPG 0137) [Tripoli raid judged more successful than hoped] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Aug 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Tambo") [meeting with Howe; MT: "I doubt the wisdom of seeing him in London... No F.C.S has ever met the head of a terrorist organisation before - so I presume he is only seeing him as President of the E.E.C. Council of Ministers"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Prime Minister Chirac (bomb attack on the Hotel de Ville, Paris) [expressions of sympathy and solidarity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Norway: No.10 record of conversation (MT, UK Ambassador, No.10 officials, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Ministers & Ambassador) [East/West relations; Norway/EC; Acid Rain; South Africa; North Sea Oil"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Norway: Ingham minute to MT ("Your press conference") [MT visit to Norway] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (SDP conference, terrorism, BBC programming row, economy) [released 2017]
Text 86 Sep 16 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) (visiting Bonn)
Text 86 Sep 18 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Sunday Mirror
PDF 86 Sep 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 457 to FCO (1517Z) ("Farewell Call on President Evren") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger, German Defence Minister) [US isolationism; General Political Guidelines on nuclear weapons; France; Libya; new tank technology; chemical weapons; conventional defence; SDI; TNW; European security; equipment collaboration; SP70; INF; environmental impact of training areas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Norway: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's visit to Norway") ["A successful visit despite the well publicised demonstrations"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [miners’ strike, Liberal assembly, east-west relations, economy] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (party conferences, arms talks, drugs) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Prime Minister Chirac letter to MT (recent terrorist incidents in France) [thanks for expressions of sympathy and solidarity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Terrorism in France") ["public anxiety continues. Coherence of French Middle East policy questioned"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Liberals/Alliance issues on defence, Labour and NATO, football) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Liberals/SDP defence policy non-existent, coalition talks, latest polls, Edwina Currie) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Owen rules out merger with Liberals, Rover shake-up, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French Ambassador's farewell call on the Prime Minister: 17.30 on 30 September") ["current major concerns are terrorism and [Lebanon]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“London European Council: 5-6 December”) [proposed agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“White Paper: Developments in the European Community: January-June 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Lord Wolfson letter for MT (Memorial Service for the victims of the attack in Istanbul) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 20 (The Queen’s speeches on the prorogation and opening of Parliament) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, industry, terrorism) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand") [points on the EC to keep in mind: relations with France, European Council, EC financing] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand seeking to upstage Chirac, Reagan's nuclear weapons proposals, EC issues, agriculture, Middle East] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("President Mitterrand's Visit") [main focus to be post-Reykjavik and EC issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [Intergovernmental Conference; Chiefs of Staff; dialogue with Unionists; Stalker case; FitzGerald government] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [European Council themes of terrorism, drugs, immigration, enterprise; Japan; trade; Syria] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (situation in schools, industry, unemployment, BBC) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Oct 23 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 86 Oct 28 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Norman Tebbit to Marmaduke Hussey (analysis of BBC coverage of Libya raid) [questions “whether an increasingly subjective and confrontational style of BBC news coverage is appropriate for a public service broadcasting system”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Conservative Central Office analysis (“Media Monitoring”) [detailed comparison between BBC and ITN coverage of US raid on Tripoli] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“The BBC”) [stronger and weaker aspects of BBC response to CCO complaint] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Conservative Central Office statement (Tebbit on alleged BBC bias) [initial reaction to BBC response; promises fuller analysis later] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: State Department telegram to London Embassy (US-UK next steps on Syria) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Secretary of State Shultz (meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 1) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 2) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 213 to UKDEL NATO (1215Z) ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial, 11-12 December: Communique") [Reykjavik; arms control; CSCE; Afghanistan; international terrorism] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 23 (The Queen’s Speech on the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department to US Embassies (British statement on Falklands fisheries) [declassified 2000]
Text 86 Nov 10 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
PDF 86 Nov 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: State Department telegram (EC statement on Syrian terrorism) [unclassified]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Call on the Prime Minister: 13 November") [arms control, Syria/terrorism, CSCE/human rights, UK-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1203 to FCO (1824Z) ("France and the Middle East") [criticisms of French policy, French objectives for Lebanon, Arab/Israel dispute, inconsistencies in approach] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“The Chairman and the BBC”) [has warned Tebbit that MT would prefer him not to send his letter to BBC; suggests she see him in person] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Nigel Wicks minute for MT (points for meeting with Tebbit) [“I see a danger of some elements of this episode repeating the Westland troubles. A colleague with an obsession, doing things difficult to reconcile with collective responsibility”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (Hurd-Kaufman correspondence) [briefing for PMQs] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne notes on conversation (meeting with Tebbit on BBC) [main points discussed] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Knowsley by-election, teachers’ pay, unemployment, Reagan-Gorbachev) [released 2017]
Text 86 Nov 15 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after Camp David talks (nuclear weapons and arms control)
Text 86 Nov 15 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (Camp David talks)
Text 86 Nov 15 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for IRN (Camp David talks)
PDF 86 Nov 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (FBI) US: FBI airtel (“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Victim”) [arrest at time of Nov 1986 Camp David visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (visit to US, Iran, teachers’ pay, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit") [position on EC issues, nuclear cooperation, arms control, east-west relations, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit: Briefing Meeting") [aims for the Summit: agriculture, defence, R&D, terrorism, EC] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1226 to FCO (1629Z) ("Anglo-French Summit, 21 November: Scene Setter") [tensions between Mitterrand and Chirac, differing UK/French views on Middle East, cooperation on arms control, EC Presidency] [declassified Jul 2016]
Text 86 Nov 19 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN News at One
PDF 86 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell note to MT (Anglo/French Summit) [may wish to bring up Camp David conclusions, Trident, EC budget, terrorism, Middle East] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell note to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French political scene, French policy on Middle East, defence and arms control] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (immigration, terrorism and security of Europe) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Discussion Papers”) [and draft message to EC heads of government] [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Nov 21 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Le Point Magazine
Text 86 Nov 21 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with French President (Francois Mitterrand)
Info only 86 Nov 21 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Remarks meeting French Prime Minister (Jacques Chirac) (close cooperation on terrorism)
PDF 86 Nov 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1252 to FCO (1042Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [comments to the press on bilateral relations, EC problems, nuclear weapons, Middle East] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT (draft message to Gorbachev) [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Gorbachev ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Presidency papers”) [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Nov 25 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 86 Nov 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors) [EC affairs: economic and social situation; terrorism, immigration, drugs; CAP; structural funds; sex discrimination] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to EC Heads of Government (“Presidency Report on Frontier Controls, Terrorism, Immigration and Drugs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Orlov") [human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, and their link to disarmament] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Lubbers, 1745 hours, 4 December") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, van den Broek) [East/West relations; extradition of MacFarlane & Kelly; Van Agt appointment to Tokyo; EC internal issues; South Africa; new Managing Director of IMF] [declassified Dec 2017]
Text 86 Dec 6 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after London European Council
Text 86 Dec 6 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for TV-AM (London European Council)

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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).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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