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82 Sep 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 2950 to FCO (2321Z) ("Lebanon") [update & analysis] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Lifting Falklands Military Sanctions") [published 2015] |
|
82 Sep 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Department of Energy briefing for MT (meeting with Chairman of Exxon) [UK economic outlook; world oil market; upstream oil issues; UK refining & petrochemical industries; gas issues; Siberian gas pipeline; Exxon/Esso background] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Sep 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“President Reagan’s Middle East Peace Initiative”) [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 2951 to FCO (2326Z) (“US Review of Middle East Policy”) [Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: NSC staff note to President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Lifting sanctions on Argentina) [published 2015] |
|
82 Sep 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
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 Sep 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clifford Garvin, Archibald Foster) [Chairmen of Exxon & Esso: world oil market; UK taxation; natural gas; US economy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Sep 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (Middle East; John Brown Engineering; Falklands) [declassified 1998] |
|
82 Sep 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Senior Interdepartmental Group on International Economic Policy minutes (1900Z) ("Oil and gas equipment and technology export sanctions on the Soviet Union") [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
82 Sep 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 2986 to FCO (2145Z) (“Siberian pipeline: Commerce Secretary Baldridge’s statement”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Sep 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3007 to FCO (2313Z) (“US Middle East Policy”) [reactions to Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“Outcome of the Arab Summit Meeting”) [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3014 to FCO (1945Z) ("Falklands: General Assembly") [US stance on prospective UN resolution calling for UK/Argentina negotiations] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Sep 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Germany: Reagan message to MT (air crash at Mannheim) [condolences] [released 2013] |
|
82 Sep 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow (“Soviet Ambassador’s call”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Sep 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong FCO record of conversation (No.10 briefing pack Annex F: “Record of a meeting between the Lord Privy Seal and Vice Premier Ji Pengfei at the Great Hall of the People at 1800 hours on Tuesday 5 January 1982”) [“Prime Minister’s visit to the Far East”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Sep 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Pym minute to MT (“US oil and gas measures (pipeline)”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Sep 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Senior Interdepartmental Group on International Economic Policy minutes (2130Z) ("Poland-related Sanctions") [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Aug 2019] |
|
82 Sep 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Italy: National Security Adviser memo for Presidential Scheduling (urges Italian PM Spadolini be given working visit) [strong Italian support for US; value of Italian-American domestic constituency] [declassified 2011] |
|
82 Sep 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3102 to FCO (0035Z) ("Lebanon") [Reagan statement on television announcing Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3103 to FCO (0040Z) ("Lebanon") [Eagleburger briefing for Western diplomats on task of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Secretary Shultz's Memorandum on 'Strategy Toward Argentina'") [published 2015] |
|
82 Sep 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3119 to FCO (2145Z) ("Lebanon: peace-keeping forces") [US terms & aims of deployment] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Pipeline Sanctions") (NSC 0061) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
82 Sep 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 455 to FCO (1736Z) ("Lebanon") [Beirut massacres: "American criticism of Begin has reached unprecedented levels. His refusal of an independent investigation has attracted censure"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan message to MT (invitation to Williamsburg G7 Summit, 1983) [released 2013] |
|
82 Sep 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: President Reagan message for MT (helicopter crash at Mannheim: death of British citizens) [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Sep 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Beirut massacres") [UK Ambassador, Israeli Foreign Ministry Deputy Director-General: record of conversation: Israeli denial of responsibility; formal investigation; conditions for Israeli withdrawal; UK government's position] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram 766 to UKMIS New York (1515Z) ("Lebanon") [Hurd interview with London Weekend Television regarding potential UK contribution to Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3180 to FCO (0435Z) (“President Reagan’s Press Conference: The Middle East”) [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1505 to FCO (0805Z) ("UNGA: Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister") [Pym, Shamir: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Economic Summit 1983: Williamsburg) [US invitation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3189 to FCO (2215Z) ("US Welfare Programmes") [response to information requested by No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit") [advice on the timing of the Summit in the context of world economy deterioration] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Sep 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Polish Debt, the Private Sector Initiative for Poland, and the Latin American Debt") (NSC 0062) [declassified Feb 2008] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Economic Summit 1983) [date] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT message to President Reagan (Economic Summit 1983) ["The world economic situation has considerably deteriorated... and I wonder whether we can wait as long as June"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: HM Ambassador to Washington (Oliver Wright) Despatch ("The Reagan Administration or How the West Was Won: Second Impressions of the United States") [assessment of the US and Reagan] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT message to Reagan (Williamsburg G7 Summit, 1983) [proposed dates problematic for MT; proposes bringing summit forward] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg G7 Summit, 1983) [date of summit will be negotiated] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Alan Donald minute to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Canada: meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister") [Pym, MacEachen: record of discussions] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
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] |
|
82 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union") [MT rules out any significant policy changes without consulting OD first] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: General Secretary of the Arab League message to MT ("Message from the Secretary General of the Arab League") ["the PLO... are the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people"; text of MT reply] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Timing of 1983 Economic Summit") [request to change date so as not to clash with Budget] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [record of conversation: Armstrong, Attali: Kohl/Mitterrand meeting; French dispute with US over 1983 Economic Summit date; President's Versaille report on technology; EC budget; Franco-British bilateral Summit in November] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Argentina's Nuclear Policies After Falklands") [published 2015] |
|
82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Note for Record") [Armstrong, Attali, Bianco: Mitterrand's introductory talks with Kohl; Reagan/Economic Summit; technology/cooperative projects; EC Budget/contributions; UK/French Summit in November 1982] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Oct 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3270 to FCO (2220Z) ("Shultz/Gromyko meetings") [report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Nott minute to MT (account of Nott's visits to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, India and Zimbabwe) [defence issues and defence sales] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
China: UK Ambassador to Peking despatch ("Visit of the Prime Minister to China") [account of MT's visit] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Falklands at the United Nations") [UN General Assembly Debate; UK diplomatic efforts to persuade countries to vote against Latin American resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Oct 10 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
UN: Reagan letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) [US concerns about seabed mining provisions] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 10 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Law of the Sea: President Reagan letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“I believe… we are capable now… of allied cohesion unparalleled in the past generation”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT letter to Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) ["doing our very best to bring home our concern in the most effective way possible"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
82 Oct 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Pym minute to MT (“US oil and gas measures: pipeline”) [trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Reagan message to MT (happy birthday) [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 3321 to FCO (2300Z) (“U.S. monetary policy”) [“the small reduction in the discount rate … represents no change in the basic thrust of policy”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Oct 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 3320 to FCO (2300Z) (“A shift in US monetary policy?”) [“opinion is divided on the importance of the change for the medium term”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Oct 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
US-Japan relations: National Security Council Minutes (1820Z) ("NSSD-6: US-Japan Relations") (NSC 0063) [NSSD-6 approved] [declassified Spt 2013] |
|
82 Oct 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Reagan message to MT (happy birthday) [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 3347 to FCO (2310Z) (“President Reagan’s speech to the nation: the US economy”) [“America… recovery-bound and the world knows it”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Oct 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3358 to FCO (2205Z) (“President Reagan on grain sales to USSR”) [criticism of Carter trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Reagan (thanks for birthday message) [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Williamsburg G7 planning) [declassified 2000] |
|
82 Oct 17 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan message to MT (plans for Williamsburg G7 Summit, 1983) [Reagan prefers an "informal and largely unstructured weekend"; has concerns about "excessive expectations" surrounding such summits] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falklands: UN tactics") ["Latin American draft resolution... clearly quite unacceptable to us... with vigorous lobbying... we may yet succeed in getting... a significant number... to abstain"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Oct 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg economic summit: agenda) ["these meetings are an especially valuable opportunity for frank, candid and direct conversation... The problems we face cannot be reduced to structured agendas"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
UN: MT letter to Reagan (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) [visit of Rumsfeld to discuss treaty] [released 2013] |
|
82 Oct 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3406 to FCO (2218Z) ("Lebanon: Gemayel's visit to the United States") ["The Americans profess to be pleased with the tone of the discussions, though there is a considerable gap between the Lebanese and Israeli positions on the withdrawal of foreign forces"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Washington telegram 3487 to FCO (2325Z) ("Middle East: Arab League delegation to Washington") [summary of talks with Reagan & Shultz] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: MT message to Secretary General of the Arab League ("Revised text of message from the Prime Minister to Mr. Klibi") ["our position on talks with PLO leaders"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands: UN Tactics") [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Oct 22 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Finchley Conservative Women |
|
82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: MT message for President Reagan (Draft Argentine Resolution on the Falklands) [published 2015] |
|
82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (MT testifies) [invasion "the worst...moment of my life"] [declassified 2012] |
|
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] |
|
82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (U.N. resolution unacceptable to UK) [summary declassified 2000] |
|
82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Law of the Sea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Donald Rumsfield: UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“little point in Britain signing the treaty if the United States does not”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1730 to FCO (2315Z) ("Lebanon") [Hurd, Urquhart, Thomson record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1747 to FCO (2347Z) ("Lebanon") [US request for UK to contribute to Multinational Force: "awkward but not unexpected"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1746 to FCO (2345Z) ("Lebanon") [Hurd visit to US: record of conversations with Weinburger & Dam: US request for UK to contribute to Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Oct 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Arthur Burns) [Burns said the US economy “had bottomed out and there would be some slight growth in the coming year”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Oct 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3501 to FCO (0045Z) ("Falklands UN resolution") [Debate on calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations: US position] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Oct 29 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl |
|
82 Oct 29 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks at the Berlin Wall ("One day they will be free") |
|
82 Nov 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Secretary Shultz's Memo on the UN Falkland Resolution") [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President Reagan message for MT ("UNGA Falklands Resolution") [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3514 to FCO (2300Z) ("US Mid-Term Elections: 2 November") [state of play] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3524 to FCO (0059Z) (“East-West economic relations (pipeline): Seven Plus Two meeting”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3529 to FCO (2300Z) ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [UN resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations: US stance "intolerable"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["I am truly sorry that we disagree on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["we believe it reasonable now to vote for the substantially modified resolution"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [UN resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations: "will inevitably be seen as a diplomatic defeat for us"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (UN General Assembly Debate) [resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations; MT: "we are utterly dismayed by [US position]"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: MT message for President Reagan (UNGA Falklands Resolution) [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President Reagan message for MT (UNGA Falklands Resolution) [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [US will vote for resolution] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Italy: Don Fortier handwritten notes ('Italy') [Spadolini government; conversations with US Ambassador Rabb; Christian Democrats & PCI] [declassified 2006] |
|
82 Nov 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1110Z) ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [UN resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations: US ambassador rebuked regarding US voting stance] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: MT message for President Reagan (US vote on the UN Falklands Resolution) [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President Reagan message for MT (Negotiations at the UN: American position) [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Walker, Jenkin, Mitterrand, Mauroy, Cheysson, Delors, Jobert, Cresson, Chevènement, Armstrong, Attali, Butler, Bianco) [Anglo/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982: Working Dinner: UN Debate on the Falklands; EC Budget; agricultural issues; Siberian gas pipeline; industrial cooperation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3552 to FCO (0030Z) ("US Mid-Term Elections") [analysis of provisional results] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("Central America") (NSPG 0047) [briefing by Duane Clarridge, head of CIA Latin American Division] [declassified Oct 2005] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (UK/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982) [Armstrong, Attali: Siberian pipeline; Iran/Iraq; MT tour of Far East; UK/French contacts at officials level; European Summit; new Spanish government; Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [Anglo/French Summit, Paris, 4/5 November 1982: the Falklands; organisation of the Summit; pipeline/US sanctions; Franco/German talks on security questions; world economic situation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [UK/French Summit, Paris, 4-5 November: Pipeline/US sanctions; protectionism; UK contribution to EC Budget; UK/French dialogue at officials level; Denmark/common fisheries policy; CAP; Spanish accession to EC; terrorism; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand, Pym, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield, Walker, Jobert, Chevenement, Cheysson, Delors, Cresson) ["Anglo/French Summit: Paris: 4/5 November 1982 Plenary Session"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 5 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with French President (Francois Mitterrand) |
|
82 Nov 5 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (visiting Paris) |
|
82 Nov 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3598 to FCO (1918Z) (“East/West economic relations (pipeline)”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 138") [weekly survey note; public attitudes to the US and President Reagan] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (UK/French Summit, Paris, 4-5 November 1982) [summary of proceedings: "An unspectacular but broadly satisfactory meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Nov 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3612 to FCO (0146Z) (“East/West economic relations (pipeline): public handling”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Allied Agreement on East-West Trade and Poland-related Sanctions") (NSC 0065) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
82 Nov 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Amman (“East/West economic relations (pipeline)”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Soviet Union: Reagan message to MT (death of Brezhnev) [Western response; opportunity for improved East-West relations] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: Julian Amery letter to MT (Report of a visit to Israel) [consequences of Beirut, Reagan plan] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Nov 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3660 to FCO (0004Z) (“East West economic relations (pipeline)”) [effect of US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT draft message for President Reagan (East-West relations: Poland-related sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT message for President Reagan (East-West relations: lifting the Poland-related economic sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: President Reagan message for MT (East-West relations: lifting the Poland-related economic sanctions) [declassified 2015] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3664 to FCO (0240Z) ("President Reagan's press conference: US/Soviet relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (East/West relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev: "I think it particularly important at this time that Western conduct towards the Soviet Union be marked by unity of purpose"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (economic relations with the East) ["vitally important that we adopt a common approach on the public presentation of our agreement"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (East/West relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev: "I agree... about the overriding importance of Western unity at this particular time"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (East/West economic relations) ["I am pleased that we have all been able to reach agreement on a common approach"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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 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] |
|
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 |
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] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Soviet Union: MT message to Reagan (death of Brezhnev) [Western response; opportunity for improved East-West relations] [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] |
|
82 Nov 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: President Reagan message for MT ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [declassified 2015] |
|
82 Nov 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3685 to FCO (1929Z) ("East-West Economic Relations (Pipeline)") [statement by President Reagan] [declassified 2015] |
|
82 Nov 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT draft message to President Mitterrand (message from President Reagan: East/West economic relations: summary of conclusions) [French opposition to publication] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Mitterrand (message from President Reagan: East/West economic relations: summary of conclusions) [French opposition to publication] [declassified Aug 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 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Mr Shultz: East/West relations") [Andropov's succession to Brehznev:"realism, strength and readiness for a more constructive relationship"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: FCO note to No.10 (Pym's comments on draft of MT's speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet) [MT's speech should allow for possible thawing of relations with the Soviet Union] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet relations") [recount of Bush/Shultz meeting with Andropov] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("East/West relations") [proposal that Pym write to Shultz] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: Pym minute to MT ("British contribution to a Multinational Force in Lebanon") [MT opposed to case for a British contribution] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 16 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) ["East/West relations"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Shultz memorandum to President Reagan (OAS General Assembly: Falklands) [published 2015] |
|
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 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 |
Minor |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary [interviews with Reagan][released 2012] |
|
82 Nov 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1800Z) ("M-X Basing Decision") (NSC 0066) [declassified Oct 2012] |
|
82 Nov 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3754 to FCO (0025Z) ("1983 Economic Summit") ["Mitterrand... angry... because he felt that the Americans had treated him cavalierly by announcing.. the Summit [dates, without consulting him]"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Shultz letter to Pym (East-West relations) [Western policy & proposed US-Soviet summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Possible message to the new Soviet President") [MT agrees to 'toned-down' message of congratulations from the Queen] [declassified Dec 2018] |
|
82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
International Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Managing Director of the IMF, de Larosière-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walters) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (inflation) [PM very concerned at decline of pound; monetary stance has changed in US; keen on persuading Reagan to cut deficit by increasing taxes][released 2012] |
|
82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Events prior to the invasion of the Falkland islands”) [Carrington worried that MT thought to have been kept in the dark as to early warnings of Argentinian plans to invade] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Nov 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Algiers telegram to FCO (PLO: recognition of Israel & membership of Arab League Delegation to UK) [Ambassador Strachan record of conversation with Arafat] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Latin America/Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1400Z) ("Issues and Objectives for President's Latin American Trip") (NSC 0067) [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
82 Nov 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 3790 to FCO (1645Z) (“Prospects for US economic policy”) [unemployment to be the focus of the upcoming lame duck congressional session] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Nov 23 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Nov 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Dennis Walters MP letter to MT (British policy in the Middle East) ["we ... [must be] prepared at the ministerial level to meet and talk to the PLO frankly and without preconditions"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Julian Amery MP letter to Pym (Arab League Delegation visit) ["assurance that the Government would not receive the PLO representative"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 25 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Nov 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Nott minute to MT ("Falkland Islands White Paper") ["in three parts... chronology of the campaign... major lessons... how we propose to adjust the future programme to take account of the... campaign] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Washington telegram 3836 to FCO (0127Z) ("Visit by Arab League Delegation: PLO representation") [Ambassador Wright record of conversation with Veliotes: UK statement on PLO & terrorism] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Prime Minister Schlüter of Denmark letter to MT (European Council, 3/4 December) [arrangements & objectives] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Prime Minister Schlueter of Denmark message to MT (agenda and arrangements for Copenhagen European Council meeting) [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Visit by Arab League Delegation") [Ambassador Urwick record of conversation with King Hussein and Foreign Minister: PLO representation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Arab League Delegation to London") [record of conversation: Lord Carrington, Prince Saud: visit cancelled over PLO issue] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Cancellation of Arab League Delegation visit") [draft MT messages to King Fahd & King Hussein, following UK refusal to receive PLO member] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (National Security Council) |
Falklands: National Security Decision Directive 71 ("US Policy Toward Latin America In the Wake of the Falklands Crisis") [published 2015] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("East-West economic relations") [outcome of discussions involving the major Western powers in Washington] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Nov 30 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Dec 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: MT message to King Fahd ("Arab League Delegation") [cancelled UK visit due to PLO issue] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council, Copenhagen") [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Julian Bullard briefing to No.10 ("European Council: political cooperation subjects") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT message to President Reagan ("Economic summits") [thoughts on form and content of the forthcoming Williamsburg summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Briefing on Gibraltar and Belize") [advice on defense] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Notes taken by MT at European Council Dinner (Arab-Israeli conflict, Cold War, US, Latin America, EC Budget) [released 2013] |
|
82 Dec 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT message to Reagan (response to Reagan's message on plans for economic summits) [MT agrees with Reagan on purpose of economic summits; Williamsburg G7 meeting, 1983] [released 2013] |
|
82 Dec 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's letter to King Hussein") [Arab League delegation cancelled due to PLO issue] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: Copenhagen European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
82 Dec 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Council: statement to the House") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1913Z) ("M-X") (NSC 0068) [declassified Apr 2010] |
|
82 Dec 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yeu-Kong Pao) [“China/Hong Kong”, comparison with Shanghai] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Dec 7 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Dec 7 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Copenhagen European Council] |
|
82 Dec 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: MT message to King Fahd ("Arab League Delegation") [cancelled visit to UK due to PLO issue] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Beirut (FCO record of conversation: Pym, Salem) ["Visit of Lebanese Foreign Minister": UK contribution to Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Elie Salem, John Leahy, Khalil Makkawi) [request for UK contribution to Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: John Coles minute to MT (EC Commission meeting with George Shultz) [agriculture; East/West relations; economic & monetary situation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
82 Dec 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Energy: National Security Council minutes (1913Z) ("Alternative Energies") (NSC 0069) [declassified Spt 2017] |
|
82 Dec 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Basing of Cruise Missiles and Arms Control") [US Cruise missile deployments to UK: "We will be very vulnerable politically to the charge of hazarding the UK for an American system"] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Dec 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Visit of the American Secretary of State 16th-19th December 1982”) [East/West relations; defence/arms control; Middle East; agriculture; trade] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Dec 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("US Relations with the USSR") (NSC 0070) [discussion of study] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
82 Dec 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr. George Shultz: 17 December 1982”) [international economic situation] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Dec 16 Th |
Press |
Major |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: The “Special Relationship” (Shultz memoirs) |
|
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] |
|
82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
US: Burt briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [“We believe that Thatcher is eager now to put recent U.S./U.K. frictions behind us”, though still “a determined nationalist”] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [US economic policy, congressional elections, cruise missiles, Falklands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 internal minute: Ingham to Coles (Nuclear deterrence and disarmament) [case for MT to give major speech] [declassified 2016] |
|
82 Dec 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: Shultz telegram to the White House and State Department ("My Meetings in London") [published 2015] |
|
82 Dec 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: US Secretary of State George Shultz letter to MT (Shultz thanks MT for receiving him at Chequers) ["I am such an admirer of you and your country"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Dec 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by an Arab League Delegation") [Lord Chalfont account of visit to Morocco to repair diplomatic rift over issue of Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 21 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Dec 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Visit to London by an Arab League Delegation") [programme; Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Dec 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 4018 to FCO (2100Z) (“US Middle East Policy”) [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Dec 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 4039 to FCO (2350Z) (“Congress: the lame duck session”) [passed resolution on government funding] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Dec 23 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
82 Dec 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UK Ambassador to US letter to FCO (“George Shultz: the calming influence”) [Shultz “shares the President’s conservative attitudes in foreign and domestic policies”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Dec 31 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN |
|
83 Jan 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: No.10 briefing for MT (Japanese Foreign Minister's visit to the UK) [background briefing & briefing on Abe's meetings with Jenkin & Pym in advance of his meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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] |
|
83 Jan 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [“The Franks Report”] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Transcript of LWT 'Weekend World' programme ("The Resolute Approach: An Election Winner?") [prefatory to MT interview the following week] [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 10 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech in Port Stanley (Falklands) |
|
83 Jan 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Sir Antony Acland minute to Cabinet Office (“Franks Report”) [arrangements to warn US] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Franks’ Report”) [comments on proof version] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 79 to FCO (1830Z) ("The Second Half") [Reagan administration; analysis] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1805Z) (Arms Control) (NSPG 0050) [general support for the zero/zero option for INF, President thinks "Maggie would go along"; Pershing not Cruise the missile the Soviets fear; portrayal of London blowing up too strong for the President's speech] [declassified Dec 2000] |
|
83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Alliance and Nuclear Matters") [INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 86 to FCO (2352Z) (“Reagan administration: the budget”) [“the state of the economy is dictating policy rather than the other way around”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 internal minute: Parsons to Coles (“Nuclear weapons and public opinion”) [“We now have in the White House a President of lower intellectual calibre… than any incumbent since the Second World War”] [declassified 2016] |
|
83 Jan 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1545Z) ("Visit of the Japanese Prime Minister") (NSC 0071) [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
83 Jan 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT (“Franks”) [material for Commons debate] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT ('Franks') [Commons debate on Falklands report] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 16 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World ("Victorian Values") |
|
83 Jan 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Visit by Secretary General of Arab League") [summary of talks with Kohl & Genscher] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal): Vereker to Mount ("The 1983 Civil Service pay negotiations") ["The Official Group... had its first discussion today of the line to be taken... the unions are in tremendous disarray... more radical options open to us, including.... offering nothing"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Jan 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Walters open letter to Reagan ("An Open Letter to President Reagan by Sir Alan Walters") [US economic situation] [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Arab League Delegation visit") [MT draft message to King Hassan II: Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: Western European representations] [released Jul 2017] |
|
83 Jan 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit to the Falklands/Mexican reactions”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Parsons minute for Coles (“Arab League Delegation”) [“we were not about to change policy in response to pressure”] [released 2014] |
|
83 Jan 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington letter to FCO (“Falklands: US media comment”) [Franks report and MT visit] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Sudan: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Call by President Nimeiri") [key issues; background; statistics; biographies] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT (“Franks”) [Commons debate on Falklands report] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("This Week - Highlights") [engagements and events] [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Mount minute to MT ("Speeches - The Election Campaign and the Run-Up") [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("United States and arms control: Soviet comment") [Soviet press criticism of Reagan] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Preparations for Round III of START") (NSC 0072) [declassified Spt 2006] |
|
83 Jan 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC I: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
83 Jan 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("MISC 7: Basing of United States Cruise Missiles") [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Heseltine APS letter to No.10 (“Franks Debate”) [chronology of decisions on HMS Endurance] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Heseltine APS briefing to No.10 (“Franks Debate”) [critique of Owen defence points] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 26 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC I: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
83 Jan 26 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
83 Jan 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
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] |
|
83 Jan 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Reagan letter to MT (visit of Vice President Bush to London) [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 27 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Interim Committee meeting in Washington: 9/11 February") [Howe & Larosiere proposal to call on Reagan; MT "They should not 'attack' the President about the deficit. He is trying to get it down"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [topics for discussion] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Discussion of Defense Program") (NSC 0073) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 43 to FCO (1130Z) ("Mubarak's Visit to Britain: 2-3 February") [Egypt's agenda for the visit; Arab/Israeli peace negotiations; assessement of Mubrak's government; international relations; UK interests] [released Dec 2018] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Meeting at Chequers on 30 January: Arms Control Issues") [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan letter to MT (preparations for G7 Williamsburg summit) [suggested economic topics for discussion] [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 229 to FCO (2309Z) (“President Mubarak’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym PS briefing to No.10 (“Nuclear issues: briefing for the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 243 to FCO (0600Z) (“United States: Budget for FY84”) [“forecast is for some recovery in the first half of 1983 with greater momentum gathering in the second half”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 246 to FCO (2300Z) (“US economy: background briefing on the budget and the economic report of the President”) [“the administration’s short-term forecast was intended to be realistic and was not simply a goal”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Claude Cheysson) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: Mitterrand proposals for agenda; EC budget] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: FCO briefing for MT (meeting with President Mubarak) [released Dec 2018] |
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 251 to FCO (1745Z) (“Which Reagan?”) [“Was the President’s widely-noticed conciliatory tone merely cosmetic?”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s open letter: Andropov’s response”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Boucetta, Moroccan Ambassador) [Arab League Delegation: postponement of visit to UK following death of General Dlimi] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mubarak, Pym, Hurd, John Leahy, Michael Weir, Anthony Parsons, Kamal Hassan Ali, Boutros Ghali, Wagih Shindy, Osama al Baz, Abou-Seeda) [Lebanon; Arab/Israeli negotiations; Iraq/USSR; US influence; Sabra/Shatila massacre; visions of a Palestinian State; UK defence sales to Egypt] [released Dec 2018] |
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 268 to FCO (2325Z) (“Initial reactions to President Reagan’s FY84 budget proposals”) [“doubts as to whether the proposals for reducing the deficit reflect any major change in the administration’s priorities”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American journalists visiting Britain |
|
83 Feb 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Privy Council Office briefing to No.10 (“Liaison committee”) [agenda for meeting on 9 February 1983 and miscellaneous papers from file] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 3 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 298 to FCO (2255Z) (“IMF interim committee”) [conversation between Oliver Wright and Donald Regan] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) |
|
83 Feb 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Visit of Vice-President Bush”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter to Reagan (MT's meeting with President Mubarak of Egypt) [loss of confidence in US among allies in the Middle East] [released 2013] |
|
83 Feb 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (Arab League Delegation visit to Britain) [released 2013] |
|
83 Feb 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: MT message to President Reagan (Conversation with President Mubarak) [American policy: Lebanon, Arab-Israel] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO record of conversation (“Secretary of State’s discussion with Vice-President Bush: 9 February: Defence issues”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Manpower: Tebbit minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["I was asked to examine possible modification of the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme.., a possible partial retirement option and the Workfare proposal. I attach a note by officials covering all three matters"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (National Security Council) |
Falklands: Draft Interagency Group Paper ("Possible Argentine Moves against the UK in the South Atlantic/Antarctic: Assessment and US Options") [published 2015] |
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 141 to FCO (1240Z) ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: TASS statement] [released Jul 2017] |
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Parsons minute for Coles (“The Middle East Problem”) [Sadat problem recurs - King Hussein “is expected to agree to negotiate without Reagan having delivered eg a freeze on settlements, before the negotiations begin”] [released 2014] |
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Ingham minute to Cabinet Office ("Williamsburg - Press guidelines") [Economic summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Vice President Bush letter to MT (thanks for London meeting) [released 2013] |
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: US State Department Bureau of Intelligence & Research analysis (“Italy: Christian Democrats Resurgent”) [De Mita leading DC away from rather than towards PCI] [declassified Jan 2010] |
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Preparations for the Williamsburg Summit") [draft reply to Reagan on economic content of the Summit & MT meeting with Bush; advice regarding Mitterrand proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1505Z) ("Secretary Shultz's Report of Asia Trip") (NSC 0074) [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham letter to Ministry of Defence (“Nuclear weapons and public opinion”) [nomination of Roger Jackling to represent No.10 on Committee; transcript of BBC interview with Paul Warnke] [declassified 2016] |
|
83 Feb 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT message to President Reagan (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [managing media expectations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT message to Reagan (G7 Williamsburg: economic topics for discussion) [released 2013] |
|
83 Feb 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 58 to FCO (0815Z) ("Jordan/PLO") [Ambassador Urwick, King Hussein: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Pym minute to Walker ("EC/US agriculture") ["I am increasingly concerned about the threat of a competitive escalation of agricultural subsidies"; Pym & Walker visits to US; MT prefers not to write to Reagan on the issue] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Feb 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 68 to FCO (1500Z) ("Jordan/Middle East") [PLO; Lebanon; Syria/Soviet Union; Iran/Iraq; Arab League Delegation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Feb 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("INF: President Reagan's Message of 16th February") [draft reply] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: Hurd minute to MT ("Arab League Delegation") [King Hussein offer to mediate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 19 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Rabat telegram to FCO ("Arab League Delegation visit") [date; PLO; Fez committee] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Acland, Bramall, Parsons, bin Shaker, Izziddin) [Non-Aligned Summit; Iran/Iraq; Arab/Israel; Syria/Lebanon] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Feb 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Lunch for King Hussein") [Arab League Delegation; defence sales to Jordan; Iran/Iraq; Arab/Israel; Syria/Lebanon; Falklands] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Feb 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington 430 to FCO (2356Z) (“President Reagan on the Middle East”) [speech to the American Legion] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Arms control: unofficial US/Soviet exchanges”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO record of conversation (Pym, King Hussein, Hurd, bin Shaker, Izziddin) [Arab-Israel; Lebanon; Arab League Delegation; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
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] |
|
83 Feb 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, EC Budget, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [transcription of Shultz press conference regarding the forthcoming Summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Briefing on Defense Guidance") (NSC 0075) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Signor Fanfani) |
|
83 Mar 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, Hurd, Van den Broek) [Dutch economy, industrial redundancies, new technology; energy prices; agricultural pricing policy/CAP; UK contribution to EU budget; INF deployment in Europe] [declassified July 2017] |
|
83 Mar 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 3 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr. Henry Kaufman) [US economy; international debt situation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE San Francisco to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Shultz at Paolo Alto on 3 March: INF") [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Reagan letter to MT (Mubarak's comments on views of US allies in the Middle East) [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (peace process) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Mar 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT (situation in Lebanon, Arab-Israel) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Aftermath of Federal elections") [the new Government] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Pym minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Economic Summit") [Pym: "Summit countries should demonstrate that they possess both the will and the capacity to help bring the world out of recession"; however MT condemns "vague" ideas ascribed to Shultz & Regan] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's [Pym] Talks with Secretary Regan: 4 March") [US economy; oil prices; international banking system; Mexico; Williamsburg G7 Summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKMIS New York telegram 125 to FCO (2210Z) (“Mrs. Kirkpatrick: Visit to the Middle East”) [conference on Soviet Jewry in Jerusalem] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: Shultz memorandum for President Reagan [draft] (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Mar 10 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Mar 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: President Reagan letter to MT (Middle East) [Lebanon; "hope you will renew your efforts to convince other Arabs of the importance of supporting [King] Hussein's entry to the peace process"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Reagan letter to MT (Mubarak's comments on views of US allies in the Middle East) [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Economic Summit") [covering minute for attached background/steering brief: MT primarily unhappy with briefing's indication that the Summit will aim to produce a communique outlining a joint economic strategy for the G7] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 623 to FCO (2205Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") ["Shamir's visit to Washington produced little progress towards agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Stein memorandum to Enders, Burt, Montgomery & Williams ("Significant New Information Available to the Leadership of the Argentine Army on Alleged US Support to the British During the Falklands War") [published 2015] |
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (European Council, Brussels, 21/22 March) [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Armstrong) ["Economic Summit": MT "concern[ed] about our current approach as illustrated by the briefs... each country must take the necessary internal measures to solve its own problems"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: FCO briefing for MT (Arab League delegation to UK) [Israel/Palestine; Jordan; defence sales] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("INF") [draft reply to Reagan's message on INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 630 to FCO (0115Z) (US St Patrick’s Day parade) [declassified 2012] |
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 666 to FCO (1835Z) (“Northern Ireland: President Reagan’s St. Patrick Day Statement”) [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Arab League Mission") [draft MT message to Reagan following the visit: "we have got into a vicious circle. The Arab world is waiting for a clear signal from you that you are truly determined and even-handed, while you are waiting for a clear signal from them that they are ready to negotiate"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Hurd, Sir John Leahy, Anthony Parsons, King Hussein, Prince Saud, Chedli Klibi, Walid al Khalidi, Khaddam, Boucetta, Azzout & others) [Arab League delegation led by King Hussein] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Pym, Hurd, Leahy, Parsons, Khaddam, Saud bin Faisal, Boucetta, Azzout, Walid al-Khalidi, Chedli Klibi and others) ["Call by the Arab League Delegation"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 679 to FCO (0050Z) (“Northern Ireland: St. Patrick’s Day”) [Reagan’s reception at the Irish Embassy] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Mar 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT speaking notes (with briefing material) (European Council, 21/22 March) [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT notes on Kohl & Lubbers remarks (European Council, Brussels, 21/22 March) [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Drafting material for Presidency conclusions ("European Council: political cooperation subjects") [European Council, 21/22 March] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 114 to FCO (1435Z) ("Preparations for the Williamsburg Summit") [summary of "US Deputy Secretary of State... address here yesterday": his assessment of world economic context for the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chile: No.10 record of conversation ("Chile") [Anthony Parsons, Alan Walters, Miguel Schweitzer Walters: Argentina; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (peace process) [summary declassified 2000] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: FCO telegram 472 to UKE Washington (1300Z) (“Arab-Israel”) [MT message to Reagan] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Brussels European Council |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (Brussels European Council) |
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN (Brussels European Council) |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reagan announced Star Wars programme (SDI) |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1730Z) ("Export Administration Act") (NSC 0076) [President approves sanctity of contract provision] [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit: Williamsburg") [Armstrong report on meeting of Personal Representatives to discuss agenda for the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan letter to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("INF") [draft reply to Reagan on INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (Reagan announces Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars)) [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Press |
Major |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: Reagan’s Star Wars initiative (Shultz memoirs) |
|
83 Mar 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
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 Mar 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Media Meeting - March 25, 1983) [agenda] [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Argentina: Enders memorandum for Shultz (“Presidential Certification of Argentina”) ["we should move soon", after UK elections - military "will remain the principal arbiter of Argentine politics, a bastion of anti-Communism"; "important US objective is to prevent hostilities between Argentina and Britain in the Falklands"] [declassified 2016] |
|
83 Mar 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [draft MT letter of intervention to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Mar 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Chair of British Caledonian letter to MT (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [plea for MT's personal intervention] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: MT message to President Reagan (1105Z) (US Department of Justice Airline Antitrust Investigation) [MT pleads for talks and warns of potential damage to US/UK relations if case proceeds] [declassified Jan 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] |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Reagan (MT concerned at proposed Department of Justice antitrust investigation into British airlines) [collapse of Laker Airways] [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Economy: Thatcher letter to Reagan (aviation) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Wall Street Journal |
|
83 Mar 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Parsons minute to Coles ("The Russians") [Brian Urquhart assessment of Andropov & Russian foreign policy] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 805 to FCO (2130Z) ("INF: New US Proposal") ["The President certainly put on the dog this morning to enable him to make his statement on INF with the maximum symbolic and visual demonstration of Allied unity"] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: Coles minute to MT (“Possible visit to the United States & Canada”) [MT’s views] [declassified December 2014] |
|
83 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [UK countermeasures] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (nuclear arms control) [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Adam Thomson of Caledonian Airways (proposed US Department of Justice antitrust investigation into British airlines) [released 2013] |
|
83 Mar 31 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Apr 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 841 to FCO (1825Z) ("Lebanon/Israel") [US threatening to withhold sale of F-16s to Israel] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war, handwritten text interleaved with transcript] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 5 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [podcast - episode 1] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Reagan letter to MT (King Hussein's Arab League delegation) [Middle East peace initiative] [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (US committed to peace process) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Apr 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT (King Hussein’s efforts) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 885 to FCO (0030Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [US threatening to withhold sale of F-16s to Israel] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: President Reagan message to MT (White House telegram to Cabinet Office, 1656Z) (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Reagan letter to MT (proposed Department of Justice antitrust investigation into British airlines) ["I am afraid that we cannot defer any longer the antitrust investigation by our Justice Department of British and other air carriers"] [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (aviation) [declassified 1998 & 2000] |
|
83 Apr 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 886 to FCO (0100Z) ("Anti-Trust Investigation into Airline Price Fixing: President Reagan's Message") ["disappointing but not... surprising... we can now think through the various courses of action open to us"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Apr 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("United States Airline Antitrust Investigation") [urgent advice & draft reply following Reagan refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Apr 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of UAE Minister of Petroleum") ["A meeting [with MT] would demonstrate the importance we attach to the channel of communication between the Prime Minister and Shaikh Zaid"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Poland") (NSPG 0061) [debt rescheduling] [declassified Jun 2006] |
|
83 Apr 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT minute to MT ("Media Meeting - April 12, 1983") [agenda] [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Observer (4th anniversary as PM) |
|
83 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Mr Julian Critchley MP") [press report that MT to ask President Reagan, at Williamsburg economic summit, for dual key control of UK-based cruise missiles] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: FCO telegram to UKE Madrid ("Gibraltar: visit of RN ships") [Pym statement: "You may tell the Spaniards that we share their wish to avoid incidents"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-US”) [King Hussein’s message to Reagan] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Ingham briefing for MT ("Washington/Williamsburg media") [Economic summit: "this visit... will certainly be invested by the media with enormous significance whether or not you have called an election by then"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
International economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (“Chancellor and the IBRD President) [support for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Central America: Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua letter to MT (situation in Central America; US intervention) [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 970 to FCO (1720Z) (“US monetary policy”) [Volcker appearance before banking committee] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Statement on the Defence Estimates 1983”) [nuclear deterrent and arms control] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Volcker, Newman) [interest rates; US budget deficit; international banking situation; growth of US money supply; South America; oil prices; exchange rate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1507Z) ("Strategic Forces Modernization") (NSC 0077) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
International economic policy: FCO record of conversation (“Minister for Overseas Development and the IBRD President”) [International Bank for Reconstruction and Development] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
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 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (nuclear proliferation and arms control) [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 15 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN programme The Decision Makers |
|
83 Apr 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (International Development Association) ["We are aware of the budgetary and other constraints in several IDA donor countries, but we hope there will be sympathetic understanding of the rapidly deteriorating economic situation of the low income countries"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“INF and Japan”) [arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg summit") ["Japanese would clearly like to engineer a meeting... in the margins of the summit"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Lebanon: MT message to Reagan (attack on the US Embassy in Beirut) [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") [report on "further meeting of Personal Representatives for the preparation of the... Summit... characterised by a mood of extreme mutual suspicion, amounting almost to hostility, between the United States and French delegations"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
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 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: Julian Amery’s letter to MT (Conversation with Sultan Qaboos) [the Reagan plan, Iran-Iraq war] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 21 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 1098 to FCO (2236Z) ("Shultz's visit to the Middle East") [Reagan news conference; Shultz itinerary] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by Mr Ed Meese") [proposed meetings/schedule] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Treasury record of conversation (Howe, Stoltenberg, Littler, Unwin, Schmitt) [EC Budget/expenditure; Williamsburg issues] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman (thanks for lunch party, other issues) [released 2013] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 1099 to FCO (2340Z) (“US economy: recent developments”) [“There is now confirmation that a US economic recovery is under way”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) |
|
83 Apr 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Your Washington and Williamsburg conversations with the President of the United States (27 May - 1 June)") [exchange rate intervention; tax increases: "according to Feldstein, the President has enormous admiration and respect for you; he would take your advice on this matter very seriously"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 Apr 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Meeting of Finance and Trade Ministers of the Seven Summit Countries") [US invitation "to meet in Paris in the margins of the forthcoming OECD Ministerial meeting" declined by the French; UK asked to confirm its intention] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
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 Apr 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 1170 to FCO (2019Z) ("Visit of Ed Meese") [key issues; "Meese's call on the PM provides a unique opportunity to clear the air"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Edwin Meese: 3-7 May") [personality note; points to make; anti-trust action against British Airways & British Caledonian] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Apr 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Briefing on Soviet Technology Acquisition Effort") (NSC 0078) [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
83 Apr 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Coles minute to MT (key points in recent articles on Alliance and East/West relations) [released 2013] |
|
83 May 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Defence: Reagan message to MT (control arrangements for GLCMs) [released 2013] |
|
83 May 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by Mr Meese: 4 May") [additional briefing on Middle East] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
|
83 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Edwin Meese) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: managing expectations; exchange rates; East/West relations; arms control; media; Lebanon; Central America] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Meetings in Washington") [IMF/IBRD: "the key issue was, of course, whether the US will honour its financial commitment to IDA; G7: exchange rate intervention; G5: "Don Regan tried to deny the causal relationship between high interest rates, a strong dollar and high deficits"; protectionism; forthcoming Williamsburg economic summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: President Reagan message to MT (US Embassy bombing in Lebanon) [message of thanks for MT condolences] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Edwin Meese, Sir Anthony Parsons) [Williamsburg summit; exchange rates; US protectionism; Middle East; Central America] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 4 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Newsweek |
|
83 May 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [international arbitration] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 May 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: USSR Ambassador to the UK, Popov letter to MT (text of Andropov speech on nuclear weapons and arms control) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 May 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: President Kaunda of Zambia letter to MT (situation in South Africa and Southern Africa) [released 2013] |
|
83 May 5 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi (International Development Association) ["I share your concern... [about] the shortfall in the appropriation made by the United States Congress for their fiscal year 1983"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA:Treasury record of conversation (Howe, Edwin Meese, Geoffrey Littler) [economic issues for the Williamsburg summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Media Meeting - Friday, 6 May") [agenda; media speculation on date of election; MT: "Calm down"] [released 2013] |
|
83 May 8 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Party News Service press release (Walker speech: "The Eradication of Britain's Influence Abroad") [released 2013] |
|
83 May 8 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 The World This Weekend |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["Since this is the first time that we have sought to avoid a pre-negotiated communique, I wanted to lay out for you, in some detail, how I envision... our discussions... May I stress that this paper is merely a point of departure, not a formal agenda... a successful Summit requires... flexibility"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [possible non-attendance due to announcement of General Election in June] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: MT letter to Reagan (General Election announcement) [implications for G7 Williamsburg and MT's US visit] [released 2013] |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan letter to MT (thematic paper on economic issues in advance of G7 Williamsburg summit) [released 2013] |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Turkey: Reagan letter to MT (democracy in Turkey) [released 2013] |
|
83 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Williamsburg and Stuttgart") [G7 and Council of Europe summits: representation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [issue of MT's availability, following announcement of General Election on June 9th] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Williamsburg and Stuttgart") [representation at the events; message from President Reagan] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Williamsburg Summit") ["advice on the line which I propose to take at the forthcoming Sherpa meeting on the President's thematic paper"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Reagan letter to MT (General Election announcement) [Reagan understands MT's need to cancel bilateral meeting, but "would appreciate your ideas and support during the discussions in Williamsburg"] [released 2013] |
|
83 May 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Political preparations for Williamsburg") [report from the meeting of Political Directors] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Belize: White House record of conversation (Reagan, Belize PM George Price - Oval Office & Plenary meetings) [Price: "Our number one priority is to keep the British troops in Belize for the necessary time"] [declassified Jun 2015] |
|
83 May 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO draft record of conversation (Pym, Stephen Egerton, King Hussein) [Lebanon; Syria; Israel/Palestine; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 May 12 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
83 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King Hussein) [Lebanon; Syria; Israel/Palestine; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
83 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Williamsburg: political preparation") [Economic Summit: report on pre-meetings of Political Directors] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Williamsburg Economic Summit: meeting of Personal Representatives, 11-13 May") [records of conversations: arrangements for, and topics for discussion at, the Summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 14 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 1345 to FCO (1840Z) (“Prospects for reducing the US budget deficit: latest developments in Congress”) [“The annual US budget battle if anything is proving more than usually dis-orderly”] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on Williamsburg and Stuttgart") [meeting with Pym and Howe: issues relating to forthcoming G7 and Council of Europe summits, including schedules & dates in context of UK General Election] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting on Williamsburg & Stuttgart") [schedules] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("Williamsburg Economic Summit: 28-30 May 1983") ["list of briefs to be prepared"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1725Z) ("Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR)") (NSC 0080) [declassified Jun 2010] |
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83 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Anti-Americanism") ["unsafe to see this as a passing phase... not sure how far... [MT] will want or be able to pursue this subject at Williamsburg [Economic Summit]... the biggest single improvement... would be a resolve not to spring surprises on their allies"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 18 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference launching manifesto (international press) |
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83 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparations for Williamsburg") ["Sherpas meeting 11-13 May"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Williamsburg - Media") [arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Ambassador Wright letter to Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Export Administration Act 1979) ["The Bill now before Congress leaves intact the provisions for extraterritorial jurisdiction which were present in the 1979 Act": British Government's objection] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 letter to Sir Rodric Braithwaite (US Export Administration Act 1979) [countering US protectionist trends] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Turkey: MT message to Reagan (democracy in Turkey) [released 2013] |
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83 May 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office letter to Ministry of Defence (Lord Zuckerman request to participate in television discussion on nuclear debate) [concerns about potential embarrassment to Government during Election campaign] [declassified 2016] |
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83 May 22 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN (phone-in) |
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83 May 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Williamsburg Summitt") [report on the Japanese Prime Minister's lunch meeting with Ambassadors] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 23 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference (employment) |
|
83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan message to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [MT press conference; drafting of joint statement; French concerns] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["some ideas as to how we might organise our discussion of the economic issues"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The US deficit") ["[if] you could have a word with the President, in private, about the US deficit... well worth doing"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to no.10 ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") [regarding President Reagan's hope for "a public statement from the Summit on INF"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Economic summit: Williamsburg") ["preparatory work on the declaration to be made by President Reagan on behalf of his colleagues at the end of the Economic Summit"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Williamsburg: bilateral meetings") [Economic Summit: "I should be grateful for your decisions on various points"] [declassified Aug 2013] |