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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 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan: Arms Control Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for Reagan ("Your meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher") [British worries, US goals; talking points] [declassified 2007]
Text 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (regional conflicts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“President Reagan’s Address to UNGA 24 October”) [US-Soviet relations, regional conficts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4 to FCO (1345Z) (“MBFR”) [UK proposals on arms control] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Nigel Wicks ("Afghanistan Talks with Reagan") [Soviet involvement in drug trade] [released Jul 2018]
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 (TNA) Cold War: McFarlane message to No.10 (MT-Reagan meeting) [two new agenda items] [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 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: Southern Africa”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (Inkatha’s commitment to non-violent reform) [condemns ANC and international media reporting] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation ("MSE") [Charles Powell, Robert McFarlane] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKMIS New York telegram 935 to FCO (2320Z) (“President Reagan’s meeting with allied leaders”) [arms control negotiations at Geneva] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("My Call on Janos Kadar") [UK ambassador conversation preceding General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Kadar: 31 October - 2 November") [General Secretary János Kádár; "the Hungarians see Kadar's visit to London as the most significant event in Anglo-Hungarian relations since the War"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“President Reagan’s Meeting with Allied Leaders”) [MT suggestions to Reagan: points to make to Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1 to FCO (1800Z) ("US/Soviet Meetings in New York") [record of conversations: Reagan, Shevardnadze; Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter for MT ("Arms Control: Soviet Violations") [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (arms control verification) [declassified 2000]
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]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Reagan letter for MT (The Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) negotiations: the UK proposals) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& Kohl) (agrees to shift US view on MBFR talks) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (Soviet violations of arms control agreement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Ambassador to UK) [Prince Hiro; trade issues; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT, János Kádár) [East/West relations; Gorbachev; arms control/SDI; internal politics & economy] [declassified Dec 2014]
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]
Text 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (nuclear arms) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [MT sole voice of opposition to sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lord Thomas record of conversations (apartheid, ANC resistance, sanctions; Strategic Defence Initiative) [Thomas, Oliver Tambo; Thomas, Howard Baker] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Poindexter memorandum for Armacost (“Public Diplomacy Program for South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
Text 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (channels of communication) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") [MT signs off on Charles Powell's amendments to FCO draft, highlighting her recent meeting with Kadar & his insights into Gorbachev's thinking on arms control/SDI] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") ["your voice will count for more than any other after the de-briefing... we should together consider the kind of media programme... you should undertake"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert McFarlane letter to Armstrong (arms control: President Reagan's negotiations with Gorbachev in Geneva) ["God save Margaret Thatcher"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (US/Soviet Summit) [agenda; thanks for MT support] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (failed UK bid for battlefield communications contract) [brief summary declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to FCO (1700Z) ("Secretary Shultz in Moscow - 4/5 November: Summit Prospects") [record of conversations: Gorbachev, Shultz, Shevardnadze, McFarlane, Dobrynin, Hartman; and Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
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 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to General Secretary Kádár (visit to UK) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3101 to FCO (2100Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, and Summit Prospects") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1490 to FCO (1330Z) ("Geneva Summit, 19/21 November: Final Preparations") [attendees; topics; media arrangements; outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3144 to FCO (2015Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement: text of Reagan statement) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (meeting with Robert McFarlane to discuss President Reagan's address to NATO on the US/Soviet summit) [arrangements] [released 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]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1499 to FCO (0820Z) ("Summit Preparations") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3157 to FCO (0236Z) ("The Summit: Presidential Broadcast") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva: details of Reagan address to the nation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3183 to FCO (2000Z) ("Geneva Summit: Regional Issues") [US/Soviet summit: Afghanistan; Nicaragua; Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia; the Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3180 to FCO (2356Z) ("Geneva Summit Prospects") [US/Soviet summit: analysis] [released 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 3165 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Channel link, China, east-west relations and arms control, European Council, CAP, EC parliament and treaty, Falklands] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Draft dodgers in Berlin") [implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Mood in Dublin after the Summit") [Anglo/Irish Agreement: "Sober satisfaction..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 423 to FCO (1434Z) ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3188 to FCO (0050Z) ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: US press reactions") ["In American news terms... a one day wonder... guarded optimism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“Public Diplomacy, South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brussels, 21 November: President Reagan's Briefing of the NAC") [North Atlantic Council] [released 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]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 186 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Initial Views on Joint Statement") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Category 1 visit by Johannes Rau: 21-22 November) [East/West relations; defence; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3232 to FCO (0330Z) ("Report to Congress") [Reagan on US/Soviet Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Prague telegram 233 to FCO (1130Z) ("Gorbachev in Prague") [account of Gorbachev's report, on US/Soviet summit, to meeting of the Warsaw Pact members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1524 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Soviet Press Presentation of the Outcome") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr McFarlane") [proposed questions to put to US National Security Advisor, following his recount of US/Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Johannes Rau) [US/Soviet relations; INF Middle East; chemical weapons; ABM Treaty and SALT II; Anglo-German summit; access to markets in Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS note to No.10 (60th anniversary of the Locarno Pact) [request for background information following Kohl proposal for Berlin academic seminar to mark the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1135 to FCO (1705Z) ("Geneva Summit: German Reaction") [views of Kohl & Genscher] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in the Irish Dail") ["In preparing for the debate in the House of Commons... enclosed extracts..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3293 to FCO (2000Z) ("US/Soviet Summit") ["Some glosses on the Joint Statement"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("First Thoughts on the Summit") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for Chequers visit with Bud McFarlane) [McFarlane’s read out on the summit; “how much longer he can stand the pace is open to question”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1551 to FCO (0900Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech to the Supreme Soviet") [details & analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT dismisses FCO's proposed draft message to Gorbachev regarding outcomes; "I will try to draft another if time permits"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3345 to FCO (1645Z) (“Shultz’s visit to Europe next week”) [Shultz “satisfied that the alliance is in pretty good shape after the Geneva summit, and that trade problems between the community and the US manageable”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Post Geneva summit US/Soviet Activity”) [appointment of US ambassador, Reagan message on human rights] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz) [Reagan-Gorbachev arms control talks: movement on Arab/Israel conflict] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents 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]
Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“South Africa: Looking Ahead”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 3 to FCO (2300Z) (“Future US/Soviet meetings”) [conflicting reports of proposals for additional summits] [released Dec 2015]
Text 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (presses case for reform) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“AID program in South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1500Z) ("Review of US Policy in Central America") (NSC 0128) [declassified Dec 2005]
Text 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: NSC memorandum for Poindexter (need to energise State Department) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 115 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [text of President Reagan's statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 117 to FCO (1710Z) (“US/Soviet nuclear and arms control negotiations: US approach to Geneva Round IV”) [“There are no significant new elements in the President’s instructions”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (0135Z) (“Gorbachev proposals on arms control”) [“Initial reactions within the administration differ widely”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (support) ["while there is understandable silence on the part of the Embassy, we are enthusiastically cheering for you on the sidelines"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 25 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Westland, Reagan’s state of the union address, OPEC meeting, rates reform, inner cities] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (visit to South Africa) ["grateful to you for raising with the President the importance of seeing the Eminent Persons Group and the need to avoid cross-border raids"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: President Reagan’s Plans”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1615Z) ("Arms Control - Responding to Gorbachev") (NSPG 0127) [Reagan: "the US does NOT give up SDI"] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (briefing on Stealth technology) [arrangements to meet Weinberger, Powell & US experts] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“Westland will rumble on this week”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for Cradock ("Message to President Reagan on Arms Control") [declassified 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 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("US Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [MT's draft message for President Reagan & NATO meeting on arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SDI and US Strategy at Geneva: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Channon letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be necessary to persuade the US that what is being proposed will bring benefits to both sides”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for President Reagan (MT's thoughts on arms control issues) [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Crocker telegram to State Department (talks with Pik Botha in Geneva) [declassified 1999]
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 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Gorbachev's arms control proposals) [declassified 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]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT message to Manuel Fraga ("Spain/NATO: possible Prime Ministerial message to Fraga") [effort to avert conservative Opposition's abstention from referendum, which might lead to "the unfortunate precedent that Spanish withdrawal from NATO would establish"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German/Italian summit") [G5; Single European Act; Middle East; INF; East-West relations & Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter for MT (arms control: Geneva talks and Gorbachev proposals) [declassified 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) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (President's reply to Gorbachev proposals on arms control) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris to FCO (arms control: President Reagan response to Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (briefing on Stealth technology) [precise arrangements in London] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow minute to FCO ("President Reagan's reply to Gorbachev's 15 January proposals") [arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ​​​​​​​["We need to tackle the causes of the insecurity which make nuclear weapons necessary"] [released 2017]
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 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 538 to FCO (2100Z) (“Timing of US/Soviet summit”) [“Press reports of US impatience at Soviet delay in agreeing a summit date are exaggerated”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [arms control; G5; industrial joint ventures; arms sales to Argentina; oil prices; CAP reform; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (current European issues) [officials from Cabinet Office, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Italian Embassy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation ("Meeting between the Secretary of State and Mr Barry in Brussels on 10 March: Northern Ireland") [Geoffrey Howe, Peter Barry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Negotiations over the UK/US Air Services Agreement (Bermuda 2)”) [risks of early privatisation and feasability of ongoing challenge to US anti- trust law] [declassified 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: 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: 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 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan's letter for MT (US/Soviet negotiations: new proposals on the verification of nuclear tests) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (MT meeting with Weinberger) [Stealth technology; determined to show perseverance in disputes with Congress over Nicaragua] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary Weinberger") [briefing on Stealth technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Barber") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons visit to S. Africa & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Stealth technology) [meeting with Weinberger; Nicaragua; South Africa; forthcoming meeting with Reagan at Tokyo G7] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Barber) ["Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Barber": account of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's visit to S. Africa/'possible negotiating concept'] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for Howe ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 680 to FCO (2355Z) (“Shultz meeting with Ryzhkov: 15 March”) [timing of a further US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["The Group's report will clearly be of major importance... Your response to their 'possible negotiating concept' will be the determining factor in shaping that report and subsequent steps"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["hope... that you might agree to add your support to their efforts at what could prove to be a critical moment"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Browne MP letter to MT (visit to South Africa) [proposals, in advance of meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Eminent Persons Group paper (“A Possible Negotiating Concept”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Koenigswinter Conference 1986") [MT message of support for annual UK-German conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
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 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("RSVP Options") (NSPG 0130) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Testing: Message from President Reagan") [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Briefing on the Machine Tools, Section 232 Case") (NSC 0130) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council minutes (1927Z) ("Aid to the Nicaraguan Resistance") (NSPG 0129A) [discussion immediately after House of Representatives voted to end aid to the Contras] [declassified Jul 2010]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (nuclear testing: the new US proposal) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for Younger ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message") [declassified 2014]
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 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks) [her support over US exercises in Gulf of Sidra] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [analysis of current political situation and advice on what stance UK should take] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 (Reagan Library) Libya: North memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [decisions needed in afternoon meeting] [declassified 2005]
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 (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: summit prospects”) [US ambassador’s “disappointment with the current Soviet approach to East/West relations”] [released Dec 2015]
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 (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 882 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/Central America") [Oliver Wright record of conversation with Philip Habib] [declassified Nov 2016]
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 (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 884 to FCO (0445Z) (“US-Soviet relations”) [“No date yet for summit, but summer not yet ruled out”] [released Dec 2015]
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 Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 916 to FCO (2320Z) ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 947 to FCO (2340Z) ("Nuclear Testing: New US/Soviet Dialogue?") [declassified 2014]
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 (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: 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]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Options in Responding to Soviet Violations") (NSPG 0131) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005]
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 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 (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]
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 (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO situation report (“Libya: Sitrep No.7: 17 April 1986 (0630Z)”) [Tripoli, Gaddafi, European reactions, Libyans in UK, British hostages Beirut, Public Reaction, US evacuation Sudan] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to Conservative MPs (government position on Libyan crisis) [evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorism] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy) [party split 2-1 on US action] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents 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 (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Charlie Price (thanks for his letter) ["vital to stand up to terrorism even though the price can be very harsh, as the murder of the hostages has shown"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (action in Libya) [“Your courage and strength is a source of great inspiration to all of us”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya will dominate) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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 (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Dr David Owen (responds to his letter of 17 Apr) ["I reserved the position of the UK on any question of further action which might be more general or less clearly directed against terrrorism"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya dominates, Queen’s birthday] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, domestic politics, industry) [Europe finally acts on Libyan terrorism] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2014]
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) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (US response to the Soviet record on compliance with arms control agreements) [her views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Paul Johnson (thanks for writing) ["a very difficult time for me … your booklet on the seven deadly sins of Terrorism most helpful … sapping the will of civilisation to resist"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, domestic politics) [“Reagan warns Libya that no-one can kill Americans and brag about it”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya raid, Tokyo Summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Duchess of Windsor death, Libya) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Nick Edwards letter to MT (reasoned response to raid on Tripoli) [his wife's critical letter; arguments for & against the raid; MT placed in "a horrendously difficult position"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (arms control) ​​​​​​​["the Soviet Union has no intention to slacken the efforts to achieve a breakthrough"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, law and order, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya, Economic Summit, Northern Ireland] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Prime Minister’s Bilateral Meeting with President Reagan, Tokyo 4 May”) [arguments on EC/US relations] [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) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict: "it will be necessary for us publicly to endorse the court's findings... if Nicaragua then has recourse to the Security Council we are likely to be faced with a difficult voting decision"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: speech") ["...the Prime Minister's stock is very high here... I think [MT] should seek to stretch the limits of what Israelis regard as 'thinkable'"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Peres 'Marshall Plan'") ["...Peres is sincere in his belief that a major rescue act is required to prevent further economic collapse in the region, the consequence of which could... bring war closer..."; MT visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("US Space Launch Capabilities") (NSC 0131) [proposed NSDD] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: President Reagan letter to Hayek (Birthday wishes) ["We are all indebted to you..."]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Central America") (NSPG ?0133) [Contadora process - "We need to take steps not to have a bad agreement signed" (Weinberger)] [declassified May 2006]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 593 to FCO (1310Z) (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ​​​​​​​["political will alone is not enough"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1347 to FCO (2305Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to No.10 ("Message from President Reagan") [arms control agreements: the suggested public line] [declassified 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 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan's message for MT (Compliance with Arms Control Agreements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [the proposed response] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet negotiations and arms control issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [revised text] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl ("SALT Constraints") [President Reagan's announcement on compliance with the SALT II agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell message to FCO (draft message to President Reagan on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 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 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit note for press officers ("SALT II Constraints") [declassified 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]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (SALT II: President Reagan's statement on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: message from President Botha") ["thoroughly discouraging... no alternative but to continue to support the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative"; Howe advises against MT reply to Botha; discussions with US; sanctions; Pik Botha proposal to meet with "four leading countries of the [EC]" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: President Reagan’s message to Gorbachev”) [Reagan calls for a second summit] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1463 to FCO (2030Z) ("US/South Africa") [report on current political context surrounding Reagan's anticipated response to South African raids] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1461 to FCO (2130Z) (“Invitation to Soviet defence minister to visit the US”) [“to discuss quote the wide gulf on issues related to each other’s military forces, doctrine and intentions unquote”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0134) [Arms control - Reagan suggests Soviets might view SDI test] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1516 to FCO (1630Z) (“Geneva negotiations: new Soviet proposals”) [“for a ban on ASATS and a ban on the offensive use of defensive systems … such linkage would be bad news”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: ComGEP") [Eminent Persons Report: "general feeling in the Group was that they were being strung along... unlikely to be able to play any further role... very high risk of increased violence... need to prepare our position as thoroughly - and as quickly - as possible... [Howe] observes... before long we... [will] have exhausted the scope for minor, relatively painless measures"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Zagladin: East/West relations”) [proposals for second summit, SALT II] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Dr. Armand Hammer letter to Soviet Ambassador to the UK (US/Soviet relations) [follow-up to meeting] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1632 to FCO (2230Z) ("President Reagan's Glassboro Speech: East/West and Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1633 to FCO (2359Z) ("The President's Glassboro Speech") [implications and analysis] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1630 to FCO (2225Z) ("US/South Africa") [proceedings in Congress; "the chances of an Administration concession have probably in fact increased"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to Ronald Reagan (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[hopes the government can be drawn into negotiations] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1650 to FCO (2330Z) ("US/South Africa") [US administration under mounting pressure from Congress to impose sanctions: "[should] be able to hold the line - as long as US allies were equally resolute"; Charles Powell annotation: "monstrous that the Foreign Office have not been following this line"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (South Africa: sanctions and dialogue) ["In preparing for the European meeting on 26/27 June, it would be very helpful to me to have a frank account of your thinking"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (South Africa: sanctions and negotiations) ["I remain opposed to punitive sanctions... I accept your suggestion... of the importance of holding the line together... would be most interested in your views on what we might consider collectively with other countries who Pretoria respects"] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Jun 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1673 to FCO (2205Z) ("President Reagan's Interview with the Los Angeles Times") [new Soviet proposals in Geneva: arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, National Security Council staff members, Walter Raymond & Phil Ringdahl: "as suggested by Admiral Poindexter. I did not learn anything very new"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1672 to FCO (2200Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“apparently no progress on summit dates”] [released Dec 2015]
Text 86 Jun 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (NSA) South Africa: Ringdahl email to Poindexter (next steps on South Africa) [declassified 1994 or 1995]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1500Z) ("Program Briefing on SDI") (NSC 0132) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Gorbachev's Letter to Reagan") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mission to Southern Africa") [objectives; schedule] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1763 to FCO (2350Z) ("South Africa: US/UK consultations") [US stance on sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1759 to FCO (2240Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“there is no progress on fixing a Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter to MT (UK/Soviet/US Relations) [scene-setting for MT meeting with Shevarnadze, and invitation to MT to visit USSR] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (visit of Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs to London: arms control) [message delivered personally to MT by Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 840 to FCO (0600Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's Visit to London: Background") [briefing for Howe: "assessments of the man, the priorities of the Soviet leadership and Soviet objectives for the visit"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (Soviet-American summit) ​​​​​​​["no breakthrough, or even a change for the better in the international situation, is yet apparent"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1835 to FCO (2126Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's Visit to London, 14-15 July") [US/Soviet relations; key points to raise wiht Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Malcolm Fraser letter to MT (negotiations with the South African Government) [analysis of why the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' negotiations failed & of necessary measures for successful negotiations; MT: "More to do with Malcolm than S. Africa!"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Machel") [UK/Mozambique relations; negotiations with S. African govt] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Malcolm Fraser letter to MT ("Southern Africa") [Howe visit to Southern Africa; analysis of Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' negotiations breakdown; views on the way forward; sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
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 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Admiral Poindexter telegram to Powell (MT-Reagan privacy channel exchanges) [their recent messages on South Africa reached US Ambassador from a source in London, not from Washington] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Military Purposes Served by Nuclear Testing") (NSPG 0136) [value of testing; need to give the people the facts] [declassified Feb 2006]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: General Obasanjo letter to MT (Geoffrey Howe's mission to South Africa) ["exercise in futility"; Powell: "a disappointing and frankly unacceptable reply"; MT notes that it was Obasanjo who had suggested to her that she try to persuade Botha to release Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversations (2359Z) (Howe, Shultz; Howe, Lugar) [US measures against South Africa; negotiations with South African Government; US investment in/withdrawal from South Africa; Commonwealth meeting; Congresional action; US ban on landing rights] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversation (2045Z) (Howe, Reagan, Shultz) [extradition treaty; South Africa: sanctions; Communist penetration of the ANC; Soviet Union/Gorbachev] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Foreign Secretary's visit to Washington) [US stance on sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (the latest Soviet arms control proposals) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter to Whitelaw (East/West relations) [plea for constructive relations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 899 to FCO (1530Z) ("Foreign Minister Genscher's Visit to Moscow: Community Briefing by German Political Director on Talk with Gorbachev and First Session with Shevardnadze") [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control") [a draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Proposed Response to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, P.W. Botha) ["A difficult and at times heated discussion... Botha said that he was not clear what the purpose of... [Howe's] mission was, and would not have received him but for his regard for [MT]... [Botha read] from a prepared statement"; sanctions; Mandela; suspension of violence ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Thatcher desire to see the President before any summit with Gorbachev") [Powell says she may propose mid-Nov visit, possibly over a weekend] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Geneva negotiations: President Reagan's response to Soviet proposals) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Royal Wedding, South Africa, Palace row, domestic politics, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US response to Soviet arms control proposals") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1987 to FCO (2300Z) ("Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks: President's Letter to Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council meeting on Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran; MT: "This is very important to the President- I think we should stand with him"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1500Z) ("US Space Launch Capabilities") (NSC 0134) [President asks whether Soviets might have sabotaged launch of the Challenger space shuttle?] [declassified Dec 2005 & Spt 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Text of a Statement by State President P E Botha on 29 July 1986") [Howe visit to southern Africa: "I told Sir Geoffrey that I looked upon his recent speech in the House of Commons as nothing but a threat against our country... Leave South Africa to the South Africans"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for Cradock ("President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "we are faced with a stark choice between support for international law or for our US ally"; Howe argues for UK abstaining from vote] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa: Talk with Mr. Chester Crocker") [Powell, Crocker: US sanctions; next Commonwealth Review meeting; proposed meeting of major industrial countries] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Babangida letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [deems Howe diplomatic mission a failure; calls for further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter President Reagan (conditions for negotiations on the future of South Africa) [dialogue & release of Mandela conditional on all parties agreeing to end violence] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”) [agreement on date for meeting] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Aug 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("US/South Africa: message from PW Botha") ["South African government... cannot see any way at present of avoiding a dialogue proving to be a slippery slope which would end in the ANC simply taking over power... seems unlikely that the [attached] letter to Reagan [proposing endorsement of basic principles] indicates any real flexibility"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Situation in Mexico and the Upcoming Visit of Mexican President de la Madrid") (NSC 0135) [declassified Spt 2012]
PDF 86 Aug 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions) ["outcome [of latest Commonwealth meeting]... represents a step backwards... The international community... insists on negotiations, yet its actions prevent the negotiations from proceeding"] [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 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("State Visit of Brazilian President Sarney") (NSC 0136) ["the French of South America"] [declassified Spt 2012]
PDF 86 Aug 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2129 to FCO (2000Z) ("Messages from President Botha") [Michael Jenkins, Chester Crocker record of conversation: discussion of draft reply form Reagan proposing possible meeting between US/South African officials] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (East/West relations) [MT visit to USSR; second US/Soviet summit; arms control; UK defence forces; chemical weapons] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet-American relations) ​​​​​​​[Reagan keen to have a second summit] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (meeting with Gorbachev in July 1986) ["Your views on Mr. Gorbachev and his aims closely match my own"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Bill Davis memo (conference speech) [“We do not need a new Margaret Thatcher. What we need, I suggest, is a better understanding of the one we’ve got”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Heads of Government letter to President Reagan (Nassau 'Accord on South Africa': conclusions of the Commonwealth Review Meeting) [summary & outline of further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Chester Crocker) ["Shultz... ready to see Tambo"; Congress/Administration: respective positions on further sanctions; coal imports; arms embargo; funds to develop regional transport links in South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2263 to FCO (1900Z) ("US/South Africa: sanctions") ["Uncertainty about next US steps persist... A Presidential initiative would still have to go a good way towards the substance and mood of the Senate bill if it were to make for a sustainable veto"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 note to MT (requests from South African visitors for meetings with MT) ["[Howe] hopes [they] will change your views. I really don't think you need see them"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Daniloff: comment”) [“The Russians may well have miscalculated”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2296 to FCO (1700Z) (“Daniloff”) [Reagan described the detention “as an outrage and as a ‘violation of the standards of civilised international behaviour’”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2313 to FCO (1530Z) (“Visit of Secretary of State: East/West relations”) [discussions with Acland “focussed on Daniloff, which was clearly at the top of Shultz’s mind”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015]
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 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["Kohl... will urge you strongly to get coal dropped from the EC sanctions... my own view is that you can't let Kohl down"; Reagan likely to veto Senate bill and seek to replace it more limited measures excluding coal import ban] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["Foreign Affairs Council: 15/16 September: South Africa": joint US/UK/FRG resistance to punitive sanctions/ban on coal imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Department of Defence record of conversation ("Plenary meeting") [Younger, John Stanley, Andre Giraud, Viot and others] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Reagan message to MT (proposed summit with Soviets) [“A constructive outcome … will depend heavily on intensive consultations and the maintenance of allied unity”] [released Dec 2015]
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]
PDF 86 Sep 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("The Philippines") (NSC 0137) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2411 to FCO (2250Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [Soviet position on Daniloff] [released Dec 2015]
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 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram 890 to FCO (1620Z) (“President Reagan’s briefing of NATO ministers”) [discussions with Soviets on Daniloff and arms control] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram 908 to FCO (1640Z) (“Secretary of State’s bilateral with Shevardnadze, 23 September”) [“A businessmanlike discussion which covered a lot of ground in one hour”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Visit by Prime Minister Thatcher to Washington") [Powell says MT thinking of 14-15 Nov; visit "a la December 1984"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("British Elections") ["our stake in the outcome of that election cannot be overstated"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev’s approach march to a summit”) [“the indications are that he sees the potential gains as outweighing the risks”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Reagan message to MT (US-USSR to hold summit in Reykjavik) [“symbolically important that Mr. Gorbachve suggested holding the meeting on the soil of a member of the NATO alliance”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Shultz message to Howe (announcement of US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“we believe that progress in U.S.-Soviet relations is possible, and we remain committed to achieving it”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (2242Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [US, Soviet aims for Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [suggests a small Friday meeting in Washington; do not break President's weekend] [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [acknowledges President "wants to do the event at Camp David"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: prepatory summit”) [“External and internal developments since the Geneva summit have increased the risks inherent in a visit by Gorbachev to the USA”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2439 to FCO (2200Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Initial press verdict on latest developments reasonably positive, with spotlight shifting from Daniloff to Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, Reagan-Gorbachev summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("South Asia and the Weinberger Visit") (NSC 0138) [relations with India & Pakistan] [declassified Oct 2010]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Reykjavik summit) ​​​​​​​[hopeful for results on arms control] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2519 to FCO (0015Z) ("US/South Africa") ["Senate overrides President's veto. Santions bill now US law"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Paris telegram 981 to FCO (1541Z) (“Reykjavik summit: French reactions”) [“The government continues to be nervous of US concessions on INF”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (0018Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“US view that the meeting should give impetus to work in hand, but should not itself involve negotiation on texts”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, US sanctions against South Africa, BBC chairman, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President of Jei-Ai Publishing Co. Ltd letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [copy attached of the company's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury: case against sanctions, and proposed alternatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2538 to FCO (1946Z) (“Prospects for Reykjavik”) [“the core of the substantive discussion will be on arms control”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 6 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Reagan message to MT (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“prepared for serious exchanges in all four areas of the U.S.-Soviet agenda”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 841 to FCO (1740Z) (“Kohl’s messages”) [“Kohl supported the US position on LRINF … he stressed the importance of conventional arms control as well”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 277 to FCO (1823Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: NAC briefing by Nitze and Ridgway: other arms control and East/West issues”) [“Human rights will head US agenda”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT not persuaded by Howe argument for writing to President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: visit of NAM Foreign Ministers") [request to meet with MT or Howe - expected to plea for comprehensive sanctions; advice] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 283 to FCO (1253Z) (“Reykjavik summit: NAC briefing by Shultz”) [“Shultz said that beneath the disappointment of the moment was a positive sense that possibilities had been opened up for far-reaching arms control agreements”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram 95 to FCO (2330Z) (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session]
Text 86 Oct 12 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2613 to FCO (0140Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (0250Z) (“Reykjavik summit”) [“a set-back for the President … there is now no immediate prospect of the substantive summit here on which he had set such store”] [released Dec 2015]
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) Afghanistan: MT letter to Lord Cranborne (Afghanistan) [Western solidarity; humanitarian aid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1195 to FCO (1500Z) (“Reykjavik summit: preliminary view from Moscow”) [“Gorbachev put an unexpectedly high price - severe SDI constraint - on agreement in other arms control areas … which me must have known Reagan would be unlikely to pay”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 13 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Press Office bulletin (“Call by Mr Karpov”) [“both sides agreed it was vital to find a way forward”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2619 to FCO (0330Z) (“President Reagan’s television address”) [“we’re closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2128 to FCO (2345Z) (“Reykjavik summit: US reactions”) [“Widespread concern among the experts at the US proposal for mutual abolition of all ballistic missiles”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, Westland) [released 2017]
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) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 860 to FCO (1400Z) (“Reykjavik summit: German views”) [Teltschik said “perhaps it was just as well that the meeting in Reykjavik had broken up when it did”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1205 to FCO (1200Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: Politburo communique”) [failure “was the stubborn unwillingness of the American administration to create conditions for reaching these agreements”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1209 to FCO (1630Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: Gorbachev’s television statement”) [“performance designed to show the extent of Soviet efforts to secure agreement”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1211 to FCO (1600Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [Soviet position on arms control, human rights] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, interest rates, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand-Attali) [French views on Reykjavik proposals on arms control, Reagan and Gorbachev's positions, future of nuclear weapons and tests] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control") [MT talk to President Mitterrand: a message for President Reagan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control") [preparation for MT's meeting with President Reagan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 874 to FCO (1815Z) (“ Karpov’s visit to Bonn”) [prospects of agreements on arms control] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1213 to FCO (1900Z) (“Reykjavik: INF/SDI linkage”) [contrasting reports on Soviet position] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Geneva summit on arms control, immigration, economic problems interest rates, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["ideas... which he proposes to discuss with President Reagan. They seem to run well ahead of what is practicable"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 17 Fr Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [suggests early announcement in view of UK story that MT had cancelled following Reykjavik] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Oct 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2665 to FCO (2358Z) (“Reykjavik: President’s conversation with the Prime Minister”) [Reagan said the summit “had cleared the way for an agreement on INF despite Soviet insistence on linkage”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2666 to FCO (1900Z) (“Reykjavik”) [“President launches SDI as Congressional election campaign issue … Polls show support for the President’s handling of the issue at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2667 to FCO (1915Z) (“Reykjavik”) [Shultz: “the elimination of ballistic missiles was quote a long way down the road unquote”; "Allied military staffs exaggerated the extent of the Warsaw Pact advantage" in conventional weapons in Europe] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2415 to FCO (1925Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1240 to FCO (1140Z) ("Danish Prime Minister's Meeting with Gorbachev") [Danish Ambassador's record of conversation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute MT (Yuri Orlov, human rights activist, visit to UK) [endorses Lord Bethell's advice that MT meet Orlov] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UN Security Council: Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "We know how very important this issue is to the President... We don't want this issue to mar your visit"; MT inclined to UK abstaining from vote] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1243 to FCO (0745Z) (“Expulsion of US diplomats from the Soviet Union and measures to restrict US Embassy activities”) [five declared persona non grata, all locally employed staff to be withdrawn] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1245 to FCO (1200Z) (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department instructions to Paris Embassy (conventional arms control) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Bush to MT (arrangements to meet) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Your Meeting with Ambassador Acland: Ocobert 28, 3:00 pm") [Acland conveying MT's view of Reykjavik; telegram of his 23 Oct conversation with Shultz] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz telegram to Reagan (LRINF zero zero option accepted by MT) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Conservative Central Office analysis (BBC news coverage of US Libya raid) [coverage "far from being balanced, fair and impartial"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 923 to FCO (1655Z) ("Kohl Interview with Die Welt") [disarmament issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Shultz's San Francisco Speech: 31 October") [Reykjavik summit/arms control; next steps: "distinctly worrying"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Seventh Meeting: Monday 3rd November 1986") ​​​​​​​[forward political diary, BBC bias, law and order] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Vienna record of conversation (2030Z, telegram 169) (Howe, Shevardnadze) ["Human Rights": individual cases; Syria; Libya; Falklands fishing dispute; MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO letter to No.10 (UK Security Policy Post-Reykjavik) [thoughts on the changing nature of US/Western European relations] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Washington") [Charles Powell saying MT had no intention of seeking a joint statement; "no draft communiques would be up her sleeve"] [declassified 2007]
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 Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US Embassy Buenos Aires to State Department (Argentine policy) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US NATO Mission to State Department (Howe-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US Embassy Bonn to State Department (Germans approached by Argentina over Falklands) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British deny an arms control initiative with France & Germany) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Summary Schedule for MT visit to Reagan at Camp David [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) Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") [timing] [released Dec 2016]
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) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT ('Time' magazine: President Reagan's Account of Reykjavik) [MT: "very worrying"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents 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]
PDF 86 Nov 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department to US Embassies (British statement on Falklands fisheries) [declassified 2000]
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 (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [unredacted version] [declassified 2000]

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