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| Date | Category | Type | Value | Author/Source |
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| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 2nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 32nd (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs, Queen's Speech, Airline Competition Policy, Local Government Finance, Public Service Pay and Expenditure 1985-6, Public Expenditure Survey 1984) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, US Presidential Election, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Public Expenditure Survey 1984, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jan 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Nuclear Defence Policy - MISC 7(83) 1st Meeting (Basing of United States Cruise Missiles) [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to members of MISC 7 - MISC 7(81)1 (United Kingdom Strategic Deterrent) [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Call by new Canadian High Commissioner”) [“McMurtry spoke of trying to identify fields for new initiatives in UK-Canada relations”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 83 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Coles minute to MT (“Possible visit to the United States & Canada”) [MT’s views] [declassified December 2014] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Reagan's Visit to Canada: 10-11 March") [account of Reagan's visit] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Oct 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s visit to Canada: Meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister”) [both agreed “the UK/Canada relationship was both close and in danger of being allowed to drift”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 83 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Central America: Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua letter to MT (situation in Central America; US intervention) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Central America: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher defends U.S. policy towards Central America”) [“Reagan is seeking to help the people in Central America choose their own governments”] [declassified 2003] |
| 89 Jun 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | China, etc: White House telcon (MT-President Bush) [Bush "trying to preserve the relationship with China while speaking out against abuses"; Poland] [partially declassified 2009] |
| 80 Nov 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK seeks to reassure allies] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 letter to Dept of Energy (Guangdong Nuclear Power Station) [directive to discuss with French but keep other options open] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [US reservations on account of non-proliferation policy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [“only US reluctance which is standing in the way of a joint UK/US bid”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | China: UK Ambassador to Peking despatch ("Visit of the Prime Minister to China") [account of MT's visit] [released 2013] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Meeting between the Secretary of State and Chinese Foreign Minister, 1 April”) [conversation between Lord Carrington and Huang Hua] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Coal: MT letter to Reagan (miners' strike and dock strike: response to Reagan's letter) ["I am confident that in due course firmness and patience will achieve a victory for the forces of moderation and commonsense"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Coal: Reagan message to MT (miners' strike and dock strike) ["In recent weeks I have thought often of you with considerable empathy as I follow the activities of the miners and dockworkers unions...my thoughts are with you"] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (Caribbean Basin & F15s) (NSC 003) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (El Salvador & Saudi F15s) (NSC 004) [declassified 2011] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher talks fail to bridge chasm" & "Reagan tells Thatcher Soviet-US deal would not affect UK deterrent" (Camp David meeting) |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher wins Reagan pledge to sell Trident" (Camp David meeting) |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Adelman memo for President Reagan (chemical weapons) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Allen briefing (President’s notes for NSC meeting on Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 80 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Armstrong minute to Alexander (report of conversation with Chancellor Schmidt) [acquiring Trident: Armstrong delivers MT's personal message; Schmidt recounts visit to Moscow] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Trident") [Armstrong speaks to Ed Meese about Trident] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Burt briefing for Shultz (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 26 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Bush to MT (arrangements to meet) [declassified 2000] |
| 89 Dec 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Camp David Declaration (draft) [declassified ?2000] [23K scanned image] |
| 87 Jun 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Carlucci email to Colin Powell (MT wants to visit DC in July) [declassified ?2000] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Caroline Ryder note for MT (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Latest weather reports are that it is getting colder and it would be advisable for you to take a coat"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 82 Jan 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Carrington minute to MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty") [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Carrington to MT (Washington & SDI) [apart from Reagan, European fears much better understood] [released 2015] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative (Meeting of Ministers on 7 November at 4 p.m.)") [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Casey paper (“CIA Memorandum on Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 87 Mar 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Charles Wick report to George Shultz (Labour defence policy an electoral albatross) [unclassified] |
| 84 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Charles Wick report to Robert McFarlane (British public opinion basically pro-US) [unclassified] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract] |
| 07 Mar 19 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence) | Cold War: CIA intelligence monograph (“A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare”) [origins and scope of Operation RYAN] |
| 81 Oct 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: CIA paper for NSC (“Possible Allied Response to US Strategy on the Pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Cobb memo for Poindexter ("Presidential phone call to PM Thatcher") [open line call; talking points on proposed agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years, "if raised"] [declassified 2008] |
| 83 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Coles minute to MT (key points in recent articles on Alliance and East/West relations) [released 2013] |
| 88 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Colin Powell meeting with Soviet Ambassador to the US (Dubinin) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 75 Apr 9 We | Press |
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Major | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Ed Thomas note to Ed Meese on US takeover of British engineering firm (Governor of Texas requests his intervention) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO draft (Lady Young statement to House of Lords on Reykjavik) [“We believe it imperative that both sides return to the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs) and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: background for 16 July meeting with Howe and Heseltine] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB)") [report on discussions with US] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs)") [Heseltine and Howe suggest that HMG encourages US Administration to support controls on ASATs] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minsiter's Visit to the US: Nuclear Matters") [Cruise missile and Pershing II deployment] [released 2013] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [Howe forwards Foreign Affairs article to MT; Powell: "This is very anti-SDI...Perhaps the FCO thinks it is 'educative'!"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan designed “to deny Gorbachev the easy propaganda points for which he may now be looking”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan: “I want to congratulate you on getting so close to a new range of agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US-Soviet Meeting in Reykjavik: Message to President Reagan”) [“The INF field contains at present the best prospect for an agreement (though not at Reykjavik)”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US/Soviet Reykjavik meeting”) [agree to proposed use by Reagan of UK Ambassador’s residence in Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [France, Germany, NATO, Afghanistan, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [Libya, Middle East, China, Arms Control, relations with White House ("would resign" if his authority challenged)] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: FCO to UKE Washington ("INF: Modified US Position") [US position on arms control] [released 2013] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Gorbachev message to MT (proposed US-USSR summit) [“the whole process of Soviet-American dialogue was in need of a serious impulse”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Mar 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (declares “positive attitude to ... a personal meeting ”) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (SALT II) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (stock reply to 30 April Reagan letter) [declassified 2000] |
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