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| Date | Category | Type | Value | Author/Source |
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| 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] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig paper (“Control on Exports to the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Apr 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig letter to Carrington (Spanish and NATO) [declassified 2002] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to Carrington (Soviet invasion of Poland “serious posibility”) [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to Reagan (MT on Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to US Embassy in London (Soviet preparations for invasion of Poland) [declassified 2002] |
| 81 Apr 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig to Thatcher (Pakistan/Afghanistan) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Feb 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig-Carrington meeting (Central America) |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hailsham minute to MT (dealing with the Soviet Union; East/West relations) ["I am sure we have been wrong to avoid Ministerial and other contacts. The USSR is our enemy. It is to our advantage to study him at first hand"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hailsham minute to MT (policy toward USSR) [Korean airliner shot down; commercial relations/sanctions; mend fences with Reagan administration] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [advocates sceptical stance towards SDI] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Howe minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [advice on UK stance towards to US on arms control, outer space weapons systems etc.] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hugh Thomas minute to MT ("A Western policy towards the Soviet economy") ["Mr. Reagan's administration may be interested in a radical approach of this nature"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hugh Thomas note to MT ("Visit to Washington, December 13 - 14 1982") [Thomas' account of visit to discuss US-Europe Alliance and nuclear deterrent with US Administration representatives] [released 2013] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: John Kerr note (asks White House to explore 14/15 Nov visit) ["main purpose to discuss US-Soviet summit"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lavin & Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [have done everything to accommodate the British, who still want more; President playing unprecedented role in visit arrangements] [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Nov 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lenz memo for Allen (NSC leaning towards Haig rather than Weinberger on Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
| 85 Jan 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane (& others) letters to Thatcher (SDI briefing) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane briefing for MT on SDI & Geneva talks (arrangements for) [declassified 1998] |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane briefing for President Reagan (Gorbachev 10 June letter) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Aug 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane letter to MT (President found your comments helpful) [declassified ?2000] |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memo for Deaver (arrangements for MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: McFarlane message to No.10 (MT-Reagan meeting) [two new agenda items] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 ("President Reagan's Speech on Defensive Technology") [Strategic Defense Initiative: detailed assessment of Reagan's SDI speech] [declassified 2014] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (2nd Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Reagan visit to Danilov Monastery) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Jun 1 We | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 88 May 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Jun 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT engagement card (Camp David visit) [times, meetings, locations] [released 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (advance copy of US-Soviet relations speech) [“I hope that your speech will mark the beginning of a new phase”] [released 2014] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (lifting of East-West trade sanctions by US) [ending Siberian gas pipeline row; "very good news"] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (East-West economic relations) [sanctions against USSR potentially affecting UK companies] [released 2013] |
| 86 Dec 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000] |
| 83 Apr 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (nuclear proliferation and arms control) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (strengthening COCOM) [released 2013] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (trade with the USSR and situation in Poland) [released 2013] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Robert McFarlane (thanks for briefing) [declassified ?2000] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT letter to US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (US makes D-5 missile available to UK) [UK to consider offer] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Gorbachev (proposed US-USSR summit) [“it should be possible to reach agreements … on reductions in arms”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Kohl (delivery of US cruise missiles to UK and Germany) [argues that original delivery timetable should be kept to, despite difficult domestic political situation for Kohl] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to President Mitterrand (common approach to overall East-West economic relations) [Mitterand opposed to publication of conclusions] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (common approach to overall East-West economic relations) [released 2013] |
| 83 Aug 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (comprehensive nuclear safeguards) ["we must ensure that legitimate competition for nuclear trade does not weaken the non-proliferation regime"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (delivery of US cruise missiles to UK and Germany) [MT writes to Kohl arguing that original delivery timetable should be kept to, despite difficult domestic political situation for Kohl] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (downing of South Korean airliner by Soviet Union) ["This incident has vividly illustrated the true nature of the Soviet regime"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (dual track policy on INF) [US-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva] [released 2013] |
| 86 Oct 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“INF seems to offer the best prospect for agreement on arms reductions”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group) [future size of NATO's nuclear stockpile] [released 2013] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“I see this as a very positive step”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes on conversation with Chancellor Schmidt (Schmidt's visit to Moscow) [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes on USSR (Soviet position on nuclear weapons & arms control) ["The Soviet Union is genuinely concerned to prevent NATO deployment of Pershing II and ground launched missiles and the massive propaganda campaign to thwart this will continue"] [released 2013] |
| 84 Nov 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT telegram to President Reagan (Shultz & Gromyko to meet in Geneva) [“patience and persistence will in the end pay dividends”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: MT’s visit to Camp David (Shultz memoirs) |
| 83 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Adviser Clark memo for President Reagan (“Meeting with British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe”) [get acquainted meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 002) [declassified 2007] |
| 88 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: New York (Reagan-Gorbachev) Meeting (Governors Island) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (Reagan-Thatcher discussions) [topics to raise] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems") [MT requests more information on ASATs and arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [MT's response to Howe's minute] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Sep 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Trident Negotiations") [Lord Trenchard's visit to the US] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1030 hours”) [tête-à-tête on Gorbachev, SDI] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: North memo for McFarlane ("Call from Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick") [has "re-established rapport" with MT] [declassified 2005] |
| 81 Jul 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("Trident") [need to take decisions about aspects of the Trident force, including submarine design] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("UK Strategic Nuclear Force") [Trident: choice between C-4 and D-5 missiles] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("US Strategic Nuclear Decision") [Nott meets with US Defense Secretary Weinberger; Reagan to announce decisions on nuclear weapons] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSA brief for Reagan letter to MT (John Brown & Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC & British schedules for MT visit (drafts) [declassified 2006] |
| 82 Jun 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC brief for President Reagan (meeting MT) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (meeting MT) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Dec 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (responses to martial law in Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [125K scanned image] |
| 81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (disinclination to accept return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Jan 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (urges accepting invitation to return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC draft guidance for press on MT visit (“upbeat bad news”) [declassified 2005] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC memo (arrangements for MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006] |
| 86 Dec 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC note for McFarlane (Mrs Thatcher's impressions of Gorbachev) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006] |
| 87 May 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC staff memorandum (Wick has “bad idea” that Reagan congratulate MT on reelection via TV) [declassified ?2000] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC-State department planning for MT visit (agreeing MT should have one on one meeting with Reagan) [declassified 2005] |
| 83 Sep 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Pentagon briefing for President Reagan (COCOM) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Perle memorandum for National Security Adviser (Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005] |
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