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| Date | Category | Type | Value | Author/Source |
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| 89 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Michael Miller MSS) | Cold War: Programme for MT's farewell visit to Reagan at the White House (ceremonial arrival) |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Mar 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“UK/US aviation: future strategy”) [how to make progress over anti-trust, post-Laker settlement] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (space shuttle mission, US manned space station programme) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (the US Space station project) [UK participation in a Space Shuttle mission] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (UK-US civil aviation relationship: meeting preparations) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (US-UK civil aviation relationship) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan telegram to MT (manned space station programme) [“highly positive centerpiece for demonstrating our unity of purpose, goodwill and friendship”] [released 2014] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("US Aid to Afghan Resistance") [Reagan's comments on aid to Afghan resistance in TV interview] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Dec 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Argentina: Reagan letter to MT (situation in Argentina) [US to make Argentina eligible for arms transfers] [released 2013] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Argentina: Reagan letter to MT (situation in Argentina) [US to make Argentina eligible for arms transfers] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Argentina: Sherman minute to MT ("Danger: Argentine and Central America") [danger of US arms sales to Argentina] [released 2013] |
| 83 Aug 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT message to Reagan (response to Reagan's concerns about possible withdrawal of British garrison) ["I have taken careful note of all you say"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Belize: NSC memo to Clark (“Demarche to British Foreign Secretary”) [PM Price asks we press for retention of British garrison] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: Reagan letter to MT (concern about possible withdrawal of British garrison) [warns against "premature withdrawal" of UK forces] [released 2013] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: McFarlane minute for Reagan (suggested call to MT) [“nice gesture to complement your personal message”] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan letter to Thatcher (message of sympathy) [“We must work together to thwart this scourge”] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Economic Policy") [thoughts on 1984 Budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Walters minute to MT (thoughts on the Budget) [PSBR, consumer credit tax, medium term tax-benefits strategy] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 34 (Message to President Reagan) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 37 (Message from President Reagan) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 42 (Message from President Reagan: 4 May) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 35 (The Arab/Israeli Dispute) [declassified 2011] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 39 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 43 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 46 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 47 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 39th (1981-82 Cash Limits & Votes, Rate Support Grant Supplement 1981-82, Public Expenditure 1981-82, etc) [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 11th (Parliamentary Affairs, Belize, Mexico, Iraq/Iran, South Africa, UN Convention on Law of the Sea, Soviet Union, Community Affairs, Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 14th (British Telecommunications Bill, Poland, Canadian Constitution, Belize, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Iran, United States, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 29th (Parliamentary Affairs, Namibia, Israel/Lebanon, Gibraltar/Spain, Ottawa Economic Summit, EC Affairs, 1981 Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 32nd (Wedding Present to Prince and Princess of Wales, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Local Authority Expenditure, Queen's Speeches) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Abolition of the Civil Service Department, Oil Tanker Drivers, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Chad, Nuclear Test, Ireland, EC Affairs, Rate Support Grant) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Germany, Arms Control, Arab-Israeli Conflict, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 38th (Parliamentary Affairs, Chad, East/West Relations, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Seychelles, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, US, Namibia, Poland, Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Israel, Iran, EC, Scrutiny of Department Running Costs) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 9th (Civil Service Dispute, US, Soviet Union, Belize, EC Affairs, Marriage of the Prince of Wales) [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 10th (UK Strategic Deterrent, Parliamentary Affairs, Visit of Reagan, Soviet Union, EC, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 11th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Economic Affairs, Broadcasting) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Legislative Programme 1983-84) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 24th (Televising Proceedings of the House of Lords, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, EC Budget, Stock Exchange, Economic Outlook and Public Expenditure, Privatisation, Top Salaries Review Body Reports) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 26th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Defence Suppression Weapon for the RAF, Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 27th (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, EC Budget, Electoral Abuse in Northern Ireland, Public Sector Pensions, Public Service Pay and Public Expenditure in 1984-85) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 29th (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Grenada, Lebanon, EC Budget) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 33rd (Kincora Boys Homes, Grenada, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1983, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Local Government) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, EC Budget, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Abolition of the GLC) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Pay Review Body Reports) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 2nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 32nd (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs, Queen's Speech, Airline Competition Policy, Local Government Finance, Public Service Pay and Expenditure 1985-6, Public Expenditure Survey 1984) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, US Presidential Election, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Public Expenditure Survey 1984, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jan 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Nuclear Defence Policy - MISC 7(83) 1st Meeting (Basing of United States Cruise Missiles) [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to members of MISC 7 - MISC 7(81)1 (United Kingdom Strategic Deterrent) [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Call by new Canadian High Commissioner”) [“McMurtry spoke of trying to identify fields for new initiatives in UK-Canada relations”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 83 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Coles minute to MT (“Possible visit to the United States & Canada”) [MT’s views] [declassified December 2014] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Reagan's Visit to Canada: 10-11 March") [account of Reagan's visit] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Oct 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s visit to Canada: Meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister”) [both agreed “the UK/Canada relationship was both close and in danger of being allowed to drift”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 83 Apr 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Central America: Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua letter to MT (situation in Central America; US intervention) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (State Department) | Central America: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher defends U.S. policy towards Central America”) [“Reagan is seeking to help the people in Central America choose their own governments”] [declassified 2003] |
| 89 Jun 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | China, etc: White House telcon (MT-President Bush) [Bush "trying to preserve the relationship with China while speaking out against abuses"; Poland] [partially declassified 2009] |
| 80 Nov 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK seeks to reassure allies] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 letter to Dept of Energy (Guangdong Nuclear Power Station) [directive to discuss with French but keep other options open] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [US reservations on account of non-proliferation policy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [“only US reluctance which is standing in the way of a joint UK/US bid”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | China: UK Ambassador to Peking despatch ("Visit of the Prime Minister to China") [account of MT's visit] [released 2013] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Meeting between the Secretary of State and Chinese Foreign Minister, 1 April”) [conversation between Lord Carrington and Huang Hua] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Coal: MT letter to Reagan (miners' strike and dock strike: response to Reagan's letter) ["I am confident that in due course firmness and patience will achieve a victory for the forces of moderation and commonsense"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Coal: Reagan message to MT (miners' strike and dock strike) ["In recent weeks I have thought often of you with considerable empathy as I follow the activities of the miners and dockworkers unions...my thoughts are with you"] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (Caribbean Basin & F15s) (NSC 003) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (El Salvador & Saudi F15s) (NSC 004) [declassified 2011] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Adelman memo for President Reagan (chemical weapons) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Allen briefing (President’s notes for NSC meeting on Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 80 Jul 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Armstrong minute to Alexander (report of conversation with Chancellor Schmidt) [acquiring Trident: Armstrong delivers MT's personal message; Schmidt recounts visit to Moscow] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Trident") [Armstrong speaks to Ed Meese about Trident] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Burt briefing for Shultz (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 26 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Bush to MT (arrangements to meet) [declassified 2000] |
| 89 Dec 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Camp David Declaration (draft) [declassified ?2000] [23K scanned image] |
| 87 Jun 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Carlucci email to Colin Powell (MT wants to visit DC in July) [declassified ?2000] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Caroline Ryder note for MT (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Latest weather reports are that it is getting colder and it would be advisable for you to take a coat"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 82 Jan 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Carrington minute to MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty") [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Carrington to MT (Washington & SDI) [apart from Reagan, European fears much better understood] [released 2015] |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative (Meeting of Ministers on 7 November at 4 p.m.)") [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Casey paper (“CIA Memorandum on Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 87 Mar 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Charles Wick report to George Shultz (Labour defence policy an electoral albatross) [unclassified] |
| 84 Mar 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Charles Wick report to Robert McFarlane (British public opinion basically pro-US) [unclassified] |
| 81 Oct 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: CIA paper for NSC (“Possible Allied Response to US Strategy on the Pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Cobb memo for Poindexter ("Presidential phone call to PM Thatcher") [open line call; talking points on proposed agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years, "if raised"] [declassified 2008] |
| 83 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Coles minute to MT (key points in recent articles on Alliance and East/West relations) [released 2013] |
| 88 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Colin Powell meeting with Soviet Ambassador to the US (Dubinin) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Ed Thomas note to Ed Meese on US takeover of British engineering firm (Governor of Texas requests his intervention) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO draft (Lady Young statement to House of Lords on Reykjavik) [“We believe it imperative that both sides return to the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs) and Arms Control: Meeting of Ministers") [ASATs and SDI: background for 16 July meeting with Howe and Heseltine] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB)") [report on discussions with US] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems (ASATs)") [Heseltine and Howe suggest that HMG encourages US Administration to support controls on ASATs] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minsiter's Visit to the US: Nuclear Matters") [Cruise missile and Pershing II deployment] [released 2013] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [Howe forwards Foreign Affairs article to MT; Powell: "This is very anti-SDI...Perhaps the FCO thinks it is 'educative'!"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan designed “to deny Gorbachev the easy propaganda points for which he may now be looking”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan: “I want to congratulate you on getting so close to a new range of agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US-Soviet Meeting in Reykjavik: Message to President Reagan”) [“The INF field contains at present the best prospect for an agreement (though not at Reykjavik)”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US/Soviet Reykjavik meeting”) [agree to proposed use by Reagan of UK Ambassador’s residence in Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [France, Germany, NATO, Afghanistan, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO note of conversation (Haig-Carrington meeting) [Libya, Middle East, China, Arms Control, relations with White House ("would resign" if his authority challenged)] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: FCO to UKE Washington ("INF: Modified US Position") [US position on arms control] [released 2013] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 85 Mar 24 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (declares “positive attitude to ... a personal meeting ”) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (SALT II) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (stock reply to 30 April Reagan letter) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig paper (“Control on Exports to the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Apr 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig letter to Carrington (Spanish and NATO) [declassified 2002] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to Carrington (Soviet invasion of Poland “serious posibility”) [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to Reagan (MT on Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig telegram to US Embassy in London (Soviet preparations for invasion of Poland) [declassified 2002] |
| 81 Apr 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig to Thatcher (Pakistan/Afghanistan) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Feb 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig-Carrington meeting (Central America) |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hailsham minute to MT (dealing with the Soviet Union; East/West relations) ["I am sure we have been wrong to avoid Ministerial and other contacts. The USSR is our enemy. It is to our advantage to study him at first hand"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hailsham minute to MT (policy toward USSR) [Korean airliner shot down; commercial relations/sanctions; mend fences with Reagan administration] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [advocates sceptical stance towards SDI] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Howe minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [advice on UK stance towards to US on arms control, outer space weapons systems etc.] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hugh Thomas minute to MT ("A Western policy towards the Soviet economy") ["Mr. Reagan's administration may be interested in a radical approach of this nature"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Hugh Thomas note to MT ("Visit to Washington, December 13 - 14 1982") [Thomas' account of visit to discuss US-Europe Alliance and nuclear deterrent with US Administration representatives] [released 2013] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: John Kerr note (asks White House to explore 14/15 Nov visit) ["main purpose to discuss US-Soviet summit"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lavin & Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [have done everything to accommodate the British, who still want more; President playing unprecedented role in visit arrangements] [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Nov 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lenz memo for Allen (NSC leaning towards Haig rather than Weinberger on Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
| 85 Jan 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane (& others) letters to Thatcher (SDI briefing) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane briefing for MT on SDI & Geneva talks (arrangements for) [declassified 1998] |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane briefing for President Reagan (Gorbachev 10 June letter) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Aug 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane letter to MT (President found your comments helpful) [declassified ?2000] |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memo for Deaver (arrangements for MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified] |
| 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] |
| 83 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MOD letter to No.10 ("President Reagan's Speech on Defensive Technology") [Strategic Defense Initiative: detailed assessment of Reagan's SDI speech] [declassified 2014] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (2nd Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Reagan visit to Danilov Monastery) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 29 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Jun 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT engagement card (Camp David visit) [times, meetings, locations] [released 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (advance copy of US-Soviet relations speech) [“I hope that your speech will mark the beginning of a new phase”] [released 2014] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (lifting of East-West trade sanctions by US) [ending Siberian gas pipeline row; "very good news"] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (East-West economic relations) [sanctions against USSR potentially affecting UK companies] [released 2013] |
| 86 Dec 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000] |
| 83 Apr 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (nuclear proliferation and arms control) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (strengthening COCOM) [released 2013] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (trade with the USSR and situation in Poland) [released 2013] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: MT letter to Robert McFarlane (thanks for briefing) [declassified ?2000] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT letter to US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (US makes D-5 missile available to UK) [UK to consider offer] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Gorbachev (proposed US-USSR summit) [“it should be possible to reach agreements … on reductions in arms”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Kohl (delivery of US cruise missiles to UK and Germany) [argues that original delivery timetable should be kept to, despite difficult domestic political situation for Kohl] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to President Mitterrand (common approach to overall East-West economic relations) [Mitterand opposed to publication of conclusions] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (common approach to overall East-West economic relations) [released 2013] |
| 83 Aug 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (comprehensive nuclear safeguards) ["we must ensure that legitimate competition for nuclear trade does not weaken the non-proliferation regime"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (delivery of US cruise missiles to UK and Germany) [MT writes to Kohl arguing that original delivery timetable should be kept to, despite difficult domestic political situation for Kohl] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (downing of South Korean airliner by Soviet Union) ["This incident has vividly illustrated the true nature of the Soviet regime"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (dual track policy on INF) [US-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva] [released 2013] |
| 86 Oct 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“INF seems to offer the best prospect for agreement on arms reductions”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group) [future size of NATO's nuclear stockpile] [released 2013] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“I see this as a very positive step”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes on conversation with Chancellor Schmidt (Schmidt's visit to Moscow) [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT notes on USSR (Soviet position on nuclear weapons & arms control) ["The Soviet Union is genuinely concerned to prevent NATO deployment of Pershing II and ground launched missiles and the massive propaganda campaign to thwart this will continue"] [released 2013] |
| 84 Nov 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT telegram to President Reagan (Shultz & Gromyko to meet in Geneva) [“patience and persistence will in the end pay dividends”] [released 2014] |
| 83 Jul 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Adviser Clark memo for President Reagan (“Meeting with British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe”) [get acquainted meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 002) [declassified 2007] |
| 88 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: New York (Reagan-Gorbachev) Meeting (Governors Island) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (Reagan-Thatcher discussions) [topics to raise] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Controls on Anti-Satellite Systems") [MT requests more information on ASATs and arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("Western Arms Control Strategy: Anglo/US Discussions") [MT's response to Howe's minute] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Sep 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Trident Negotiations") [Lord Trenchard's visit to the US] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1030 hours”) [tête-à-tête on Gorbachev, SDI] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [cover note only: McFarlane said US working on arms control counterproposal] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: North memo for McFarlane ("Call from Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick") [has "re-established rapport" with MT] [declassified 2005] |
| 81 Jul 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("Trident") [need to take decisions about aspects of the Trident force, including submarine design] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("UK Strategic Nuclear Force") [Trident: choice between C-4 and D-5 missiles] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Aug 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Nott minute to MT ("US Strategic Nuclear Decision") [Nott meets with US Defense Secretary Weinberger; Reagan to announce decisions on nuclear weapons] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSA brief for Reagan letter to MT (John Brown & Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC & British schedules for MT visit (drafts) [declassified 2006] |
| 82 Jun 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC brief for President Reagan (meeting MT) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (meeting MT) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Dec 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (responses to martial law in Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [125K scanned image] |
| 81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (disinclination to accept return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Jan 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC discussion of Thatcher visit (urges accepting invitation to return event at British Embassy) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC draft guidance for press on MT visit (“upbeat bad news”) [declassified 2005] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC memo (arrangements for MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006] |
| 86 Dec 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC note for McFarlane (Mrs Thatcher's impressions of Gorbachev) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006] |
| 87 May 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC staff memorandum (Wick has “bad idea” that Reagan congratulate MT on reelection via TV) [declassified ?2000] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC-State department planning for MT visit (agreeing MT should have one on one meeting with Reagan) [declassified 2005] |
| 83 Sep 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Pentagon briefing for President Reagan (COCOM) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Perle memorandum for National Security Adviser (Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 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] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Western Arms Control Strategy") [comments on Howe's minute] [declassified 2014] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan briefing cards for MT visit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Nov 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: President Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet relations) [arms control negotiations to resume] [released 2014] |
| 81 Nov 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan meeting with US Ambassador to London (possible Thatcher defeat) [declassified 1998] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's talking points (private meeting with MT) [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Price telegram to President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Mar 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Price telegram to Secretary Shultz (British pressure on US chemical weapons stance) [declassified 2002] |
| 83 Feb 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to Reagan (INF negotiations) [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Pym message to Shultz (relations with the Soviet Union) [need for Western Allies to pursue a common line on East-West relations] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Pym message to US Secretary of State George Shultz ("East-West Relations") ["it seems to me that there could be something to be said for an early Soviet-American summit"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Pym minute to MT (INF negotiations: report US-Soviet talks) [arms control] [declassified 2012] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Kohl (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Mitterrand (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Mar 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Thatcher (ferry disaster & Iran-Contra) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Thatcher (reporting Washington Summit [talking points only] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Jul 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Ambassador Charles Price (defends MT style in foreign policy-making) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (comprehensive nuclear safeguards) [controlling nuclear proliferation] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (downing of South Korean airliner by Soviet Union) ["I am pleased that your government's statements demonstrate that you share my sense of outrage at this utterly indefensible act"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (dual track policy on INF) [US-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group) [future size of NATO's nuclear stockpile] [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (nuclear arms control) [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (Reagan announces Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars)) [released 2013] |
| 78 Dec 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for meeting; defence) [released 2007] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (trade with the USSR and situation in Poland) ["The uncontrolled export of technology and critical equipment for the Soviet military infrastructure must be stopped"] [released 2013] |
| 81 Oct 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (US decisions on modernisation of strategic nuclear forces) [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Nov 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet INF and arms control negotiations) [next moves in negotiations] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 20 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet INF and arms control negotiations) [Soviet proposals for 'equal reductions' unacceptable to the US] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet negotiations on INF and arms control) [released 2013] |
| 85 Jan 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Speaker (urges MT be invited to address Congress) [unclassified] |
| 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] |
| 85 Jan 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& others) (resuming Geneva arms talks) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& others) (trade with Soviet bloc) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& others) (US lifts East-West trade sanctions) [Siberian gas pipeline row ended] [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (arms control verification) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (assassination attempt) [declassified 1997] |
| 83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Belize) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Dec 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Commonwealth & Grenada) [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (inauguration) [unclassified] |
| 83 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Mar 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (John Brown & Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Feb 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (June 1982 visit to UK) [unclassified] |
| 82 Mar 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Law of the Sea) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Montebello G7) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Aug 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (nuclear proliferation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 May 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (post-INF NATO policy) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Soviets shoot down Korean airliner) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (space cooperation) [declassified 1998] |
| 84 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thanks for photo with Churchill portrait) [unclassified] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (the special relationship) [declassified 1997] |
| 83 Jun 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (trade in military technology) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan meeting with Finnish President (Koivisto) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Mar 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan meeting with Neil Kinnock (briefing & background papers) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Feb 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan meeting with Neil Kinnock (briefing & background papers) [declassified 2002] |
| 83 Oct 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan message to MT (delivery of US cruise missiles to Germany and the UK) ["I hope that you will inform the German Government that equipment deliveries to the UK must adhere to the existing schedule"] [released 2013] |
| 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] |
| 82 Nov 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Reagan message to MT (overall East-West economic relations and US sanctions against the USSR) [lifting of certain sanctions; need for display of unity among Western nations] [released 2013] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jun 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Reagan Public Papers | Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament [external link] |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (Technical Cooperation Program anniversary) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Mar 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (affirms “personal commitment ... to serious negotiations”) |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (channels of communication) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (nuclear arms) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (obstacles to trust) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (regional conflicts) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 May 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (trade) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Apr 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (value of “political meetings” in building trust) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Oct 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to MT (account of Gromyko visit to US) [declassified 2007] |
| 86 Oct 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version] |
| 81 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Richard Allen brief for President Reagan (dinner with Lord Carrington) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Richard Allen briefing for Reagan (farewell call from MT) [declassified ?2005] |
| 81 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Richard Allen memo for President Reagan (“Britain Drifts”) [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 88 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, December 16 at 11:00am”) [relations with Gorbachev, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Middle East peace process, South Africa, terrorism] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, December 16 at 11:00am”) [MT’s views on Gorbachev’s domestic policies, human rights, arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Schedule for MT visit to Washington [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Schedule for MT visit to Washington [declassified ?2000] |
| 88 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Schedule for MT visit to White House (timings & participants) [declassified ?2000] |
| 88 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [unredacted version] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [117K scanned image] |
| 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] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing memo for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013] |
| 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] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz note on Gorbachev letter (helpful) [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT nervous about coming Washington visit) |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
| 81 May 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson letter to Richard Allen (counters adverse press comment on British defence review) [declassified ?2005] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 82 Jun 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department brief for President Reagan (meeting MT) [declassified 2002] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department instructions to Paris Embassy (conventional arms control) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Jul 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department record of conversation (Shultz-Howe) [East-West; economic relations; arms control; Middle East; Belize; Argentina/Falklands; South Africa] [declassified 2011] |
| 88 Jun 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: State Department telegram to US NATO Embassies (British nuclear testing policy) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Summary Schedule for MT visit to Reagan at Camp David [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Mar 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (assassination attempt) [unclassified] |
| 83 Aug 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Belize) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 83 Nov 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Commonwealth & Grenada) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jan 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Geneva arms negotiations) [declassified 1998] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (importance of the US-UK relationship) [unclassified] |
| 81 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (inaugural congratulations) [unclassified] |
| 82 Feb 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (June 1982 visit to UK) [unclassified] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Law of the Sea) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 81 Aug 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Montebello G7; Nancy Reagan visit to UK) [declassified 1998] |
| 83 Sep 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (nuclear proliferation) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Dec 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Poland) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Polish sanctions) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Soviets shoot down Korean airliner) [declassified 1998] |
| 84 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (space cooperation) [summary declassified 1998] |
| 83 Oct 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (thanks for visit) [declassified/released 2000] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (thanks for Washington hospitality) [unclassified] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (topics discussed during her visit) [declassified 1998] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (trade in military technology) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Oct 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (US strategic weapon modernisation) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher message to Reagan (fingers crossed for his reelection) [unclassified] |
| 83 Oct 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher message to Reagan (Technical Cooperation Programme Anniversary) [unclassified] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher telegram to Reagan (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Jan 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: UK Ambassador Washington to FCO ("United States: Annual Review 1982") [Sir Oliver Wright's Annual Review] [released 2013] |
| 81 Jun 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UK delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev letter to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev message to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: NAC briefing by Nitze and Ridgway: other arms control and East/West issues”) [“Human rights will head US agenda”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“ Karpov’s visit to Bonn”) [prospects of agreements on arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Kohl’s messages”) [“Kohl supported the US position on LRINF … he stressed the importance of conventional arms control as well”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 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] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: Gorbachev’s television statement”) [“performance designed to show the extent of Soviet efforts to secure agreement”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: Politburo communique”) [failure “was the stubborn unwillingness of the American administration to create conditions for reaching these agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting”) [Soviet position on arms control, human rights] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: INF/SDI linkage”) [contrasting reports on Soviet position] [released Dec 2015] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
| 82 Jul 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“marked hardening… parallels with… 1930’s and… Hitlerite Germany”] [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: French reactions”) [“The government continues to be nervous of US concessions on INF”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram to FCO (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Daniloff”) [Reagan described the detention “as an outrage and as a ‘violation of the standards of civilised international behaviour’”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jan 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Future US/Soviet meetings”) [conflicting reports of proposals for additional summits] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jun 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Gorbachev proposals on arms control”) [“Initial reactions within the administration differ widely”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prospects for Reykjavik”) [“the core of the substantive discussion will be on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: US reactions”) [“Widespread concern among the experts at the US proposal for mutual abolition of all ballistic missiles”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Oct 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Mar 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Shultz meeting with Ryzhkov: 15 March”) [timing of a further US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Timing of US/Soviet summit”) [“Press reports of US impatience at Soviet delay in agreeing a summit date are exaggerated”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US-Soviet relations”) [“No date yet for summit, but summer not yet ruled out”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jan 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [Soviet position on Daniloff] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [US, Soviet aims for Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“apparently no progress on summit dates”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Initial press verdict on latest developments reasonably positive, with spotlight shifting from Daniloff to Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“there is no progress on fixing a Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“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] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO ("Consultations with the Americans on Space") [discussions with the US on Strategic Defense Initative and ASATs: "there is clearly scepticism among some senior US officials" about SDI] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO ("US Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems") [Strategic Defense Initiative: "there is a good deal of momentum in favour of a substantially expanded research and development programme"] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO (“Haig/Gromyko meetings”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO (“Reagan statement on nuclear arms policy and East-West relations”) [“My goal is to reduce nuclear weapons dramatically”] [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Sep 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s briefing of NATO ministers”) [discussions with Soviets on Daniloff and arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s bilateral with Shevardnadze, 23 September”) [“A businessmanlike discussion which covered a lot of ground in one hour”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (British hopes for Thatcher US visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (extraterritoriality) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 81 Aug 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (US makes D-5 missile available to UK) [Trident] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British deny an arms control initiative with France & Germany) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 1) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 2) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US NATO Mission to State Department (Howe-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Berlin issues”) [discussions with Soviets on Reagan’s Berlin initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Chemical weapons”) [Bush’s draft treaty as a basis for negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: East-West relations”) [“Ongoing changes in East Bloc have created opportunities; but essential to maintain consistent approach to deal effectively with continued challenges to Western interests”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: U.S.-Soviet summit prospects”) [arms control: “We would like agreements if they are ready, but it is not a precondition”] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Treasury briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Jul 23 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Sep 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: USE London to State Department (“Third Party Systems”) [“It is not self-evident that US interests are served by supporting French and British demands that their systems be exempt from any participation in nuclear reductions”] [declassified 2011] |
| 87 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (working lunch) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Weinberger briefing for President Reagan (MT stopped sensitive technology exports to USSR) [declassified 2002] |
| 82 Sep 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (Middle East; John Brown Engineering; Falklands) [declassified 1998] |
| 81 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (“absolutely delighted” with zero option) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Weinberger paper (“US policy on the West Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: White House Press Briefing (MT visit) [distance between British & US approach to the economy] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Jun 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (“President’s meeting with UK PM Margaret Thatcher” - Bush, Haig, Clark also) [declassified 2008] |
| 83 Sep 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Commonwealth: Acland minute to Coles ("Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and Southern African Problems") [Trudeau's views on situation in Southern Africa] [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Commonwealth: MT message to Reagan (comments on communique issued by New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hawke) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Commonwealth: Reagan letter to MT (New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting communique) [released 2013] |
| 86 Aug 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 81 Oct 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (IEA MSS) | Conservatism: Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (MT's cabinet reshuffle and Reagan) ["I was glad to see the changes which Mrs. Thatcher made in her Cabinet; maybe that will do some good"] |
| 82 Feb 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to President Reagan (US-Iranian relations) ["...the only peaceful solution which we could find for this highly dangerous...problem: submit the whole issue to the International Court at the Hague"] |
| 86 May 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: President Reagan letter to Hayek (Birthday wishes) ["We are all indebted to you..."] |
| 81 Aug 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party, Economy: MT off the record interview with Ivan Fallon (Pym & Thorneycroft) ["damned if she was going to change her views because of such a speech & press conference"] [released 2012] |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Coles minute to Butler ("Prime Minister's Speech") [draft section on arms control for MT's Conservative Party Conference speech] [released 2013] |
| 83 May 8 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Conservative Party News Service press release (Walker speech: "The Eradication of Britain's Influence Abroad") [released 2013] |
| 82 Jul 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Gow and Peter Brooke notes (list of Party rebels and notes on MT's meeting with Nixon) [MT: "I am an Reaganite"] [released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Gow note to MT ("Meeting with the Executive of the 1922 Committee - Monday 14 June 1982 at 3.10 P.M. in your room at the House") [agenda] [released 2013] |
| 85 Jun 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Ingham minute (meeting with Ian MacGregor) [IM suggests fundraising using model employed by Reagan] [released 2015] |
| 82 Jun 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Shipley minute to Parkinson (observations on previous day's CND demonstration) [released 2013] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKMIS New York (“Cyprus”) [Kyprianou stresses any approach to Turks must be “at the highest level”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: No.10 minute to MT (“Cyprus”) [“tension is increasing again”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: President Reagan letter to President Kyprianou (UN talks) [“The present partition of Cyprus, and the long delay in finding viable solutions to that situation, are to the advantage of no one”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Nov 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [Reagan had assured Kyprianou of US support] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Shultz: Cyprus”) [“persuading Kyprianou that his time was running out”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [de Cuéllar “hoped he could obtain agreement from the Turkish side to break the vicious circle”] [declassified 2014] |
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