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Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: MH Jay record of conversation to Lord Bridges (“US draft communiqué language on East West economic relations”) [quadripartite political directors meeting - US/French disagreement on credit restraint] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (“record of a meeting held between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Schmidt at the Grand Trianon, Versailles, on Saturday, 5 June 1982 at 1840 hours”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (Heads of Delegation “Saturday evening 5 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (US St Patrick’s Day parade) [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT note to Ronald Reagan (congratulations on election victory) [“You can count on Britain to work closely with you in meeting the challenges which lie ahead”] [released 2014] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Armstrong handwritten record of conversation (“Versailles summit. First plenary session. 5. vi. 82. 9.45a.m.”) [world economy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT notes (first session of Versailles summit) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Versailles economic summit: first plenary session) [MT “inflation as a policy for curing unemployment was not acceptable: it would be a positively immoral policy”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Armstrong handwritten record of conversation (Versailles economic summit: second plenary session) [wording of draft declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (“Third plenary sesson”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Versailles economic summit draft declaration (“Declaration of the seven Heads of State and Government and representatives of the European communities”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ingham minute to MT (Versailles economic summit: closing statements to media) [UN [Falklands] vote] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ingham minute to MT (“Reagan and British media”) [Versailles economic summit; Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Personal and confidential”) [“clear warning” that support from other G7 members could not be counted on for a prolonged war against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Energy: Brittan minute to MT (“Fast Reactor collaboration”) [prospects of international collaboration] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: MT letter to President Reagan (Overview of visit to Middle East and India) [Reagan and Schmidt on Palestine and USSR] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT, “Sultan Qaboos of Oman”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT, “Naif, Minister of the Interior”) [visit to Saudi Arabia] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (MT, “Prince Sultan, Minister of Defence and Aviation”) [visit to Saudi Arabia] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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 10 Su | Declassified documents |
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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 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Law of the Sea: No.10 letter to British-North American Research Association (“UNLOSC” UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“campaign… to press the British Government to support the… US”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Law of the Sea: MT letter to President Reagan (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“we would consider any arrangement which excluded the United States as seriously defective”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Law of the Sea: Aims of Industry letter to Hurd (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“United States are very concerned”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 May 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Law of the Sea: Wade-Gery minute to No.10 (“Announcement of the Government’s decision to extend the United Kingdom Territorial Sea”) [“risk of… seriously upsetting the Americans is small enough to be acceptable”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“marked hardening… parallels with… 1930’s and… Hitlerite Germany”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO (“Haig/Gromyko meetings”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington to FCO (“Reagan statement on nuclear arms policy and East-West relations”) [“My goal is to reduce nuclear weapons dramatically”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev message to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jun 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UK delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev letter to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Note of a meeting between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Schmidt”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Chancellor Schmidt: East/West economic relations”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German summit: the mood in the FRG”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German consultations: press reactions”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Record of a plenary discussion between British and West German ministers”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Federal Chancellor and the Prime Minister”) [“ domestic [US] economic policy… also deciding the economic fate of the world“] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: MT notes for Reagan bilateral (Home and Foreign Affairs) [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gibraltar: Cabinet Office briefing to No.10 (“OD: Gibraltar”) [Pym’s meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [“only US reluctance which is standing in the way of a joint UK/US bid”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Pym minute to MT (“Guangdong Nuclear Power Station”) [US reservations on account of non-proliferation policy] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 letter to Dept of Energy (Guangdong Nuclear Power Station) [directive to discuss with French but keep other options open] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Sir Y K Pao”) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yue-Kong Pao) [shipbuilding contracts and the new Chinese and US regimes] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: Alan Donald minute to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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 Jan 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India: President Reagan letter to MT (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India: MT letter to President Reagan (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [“warm personal regards… the world needs you”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham, Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao) [“The Prime Minister and the Indian Foreign Minister, Mr Rao”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Sir John Thomson, Sir John Graham) [“Meeting between the Prime Minister and Mrs Gandhi”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yeu-Kong Pao) [“China/Hong Kong”, comparison with Shanghai] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 May 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iraq: UKE Amman to FCO (“Iraq-Iran”) [King Hussein’s view] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iraq: UKE Amman to FCO (“Iran-Iraq”) [message to President Reagan from King Hussein] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Apr 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
| 83 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (“Record of a conversation between the Prime Minister and Vice President George Bush”) [nuclear defence policy, Middle East, Hong Kong, Soviet Union] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Sep 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (“Foreign affairs round up”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Sep 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKHC Ottawa (“Future of Hong Kong”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 May 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Armstrong record of conversation (plenary session - morning) [discussion of arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Nov 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Iraq: UKE Washington to FCO (“Threat to Shipping in the Gulf”) [Reagan’s decision on US policy towards the Gulf] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jan 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“President Mubarak’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Middle East Policy”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: Julian Amery letter to MT (Report of a visit to Israel) [consequences of Beirut, Reagan plan] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: President Reagan’s visit”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | India: FCO letter to No.10 (“Invitation to Mrs Gandhi to visit the United Kingdom”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Indira Gandhi) [“Visit of Mrs Gandhi: tete-a-tete discussion with the Prime Minister”] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: MT letter to President Reagan (UK/China Agreement) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Hong Kong: FCO letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing for the Australians and Americans”) [“[MT] not impressed with the drafting of these messages”] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“President Reagan’s Press Conference: The Middle East”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Middle East Policy”) [reactions to Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“Outcome of the Arab Summit Meeting”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“President Reagan’s Middle East Peace Initiative”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Review of Middle East Policy”) [Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Review of Middle East Policy”) [Reagan’s initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Review of Middle East Policy”) [Shultz message to Pym] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Aug 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: President Reagan’s message to MT (Soviet Union, King Hussein, PLO) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: MT message to President Reagan (Talks to King Hussein) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jul 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“Lebanon: Visit of Arab League Delegation”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of phone conversation (Reagan-MT election congratulations) [RR: “a shot in the arm for everyone”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Reagan, Bush & others) [Howe raises areas of difficulty; Reagan does not respond] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Nov 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: Coles minute to Armstrong [MT doubts McFarlane’s value as an interlocutor; thinks US advance notice of Grenada quite inadequate] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Dec 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: Hugh Thomas letter to MT [disturbed at her current view of US following Grenada; no real alternative to mending fences] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: Julian Amery letter to MT (Nimrod deal with the Saudis) [US Senate stance] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: MT letter to Chedli Klibi (European Council peace initiative) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [King Hussein’s letter to President Reagan] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Middle East-Jordan”) [King Hussein’s account] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to No.10 (“Policy on the Middle East: Jordan”) [preserving the integrity and stability of Jordan] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“US Middle East Policy”) [appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as the Middle East envoy] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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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 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-US”) [King Hussein’s message to Reagan] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT (King Hussein’s efforts) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO to UKE Washington (“Arab-Israel”) [MT message to Reagan] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKMIS New York to FCO (“Mrs. Kirkpatrick: Visit to the Middle East”) [conference on Soviet Jewry in Jerusalem] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT (situation in Lebanon, Arab-Israel) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Washington to FCO (“President Reagan on the Middle East”) [speech to the American Legion] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: MT message to President Reagan (Conversation with President Mubarak) [American policy: Lebanon, Arab-Israel] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan telegram to MT (manned space station programme) [“highly positive centerpiece for demonstrating our unity of purpose, goodwill and friendship”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (the US Space station project) [UK participation in a Space Shuttle mission] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (space shuttle mission, US manned space station programme) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (US-UK civil aviation relationship) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (UK-US civil aviation relationship: meeting preparations) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Hungary: MT letter to President Reagan (visit to Hungary) ["as far ahead as we can see we have to find a way of living side by side with the Communist system, repugnant as it is"] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Younger, Edwards, Jenkin, Biffen, Parkinson etc) [“BSC’s proposal to acquire US company Kaiser”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“International Development Association: 6th replenishment: bridging arrangements: Parliamentary timetable”) [declassified 2012] |
| 85 May 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [gas privatisation, VE Day, Reagan in Europe, GLC/MCC abolition, NUM trial, NACODS overtime ban, Welfare State cabinet, Scottish Conservatives] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jan 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: Nancy Reagan to MT (thanks for Xmas gift) [hope she enjoyed Dec 1984 Camp David visit] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Carrington to MT (Washington & SDI) [apart from Reagan, European fears much better understood] [released 2015] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for Chequers visit with Bud McFarlane) [McFarlane’s read out on the summit; “how much longer he can stand the pace is open to question”] [released 2015] |
| 82 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Legislative programme 1982-83”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“FRG economic interests in the East: the background to the economic debate”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Poland: Bundestag debate”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (“Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Day of solidarity with the Polish people”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Poland”) [NATO reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: MT letter to US President (Reagan messages to Jaruzelski and Brezhnev on martial law in Poland) [MT on draft reply to Reagan: “much too turgid. I am not happy with our reactions so far…”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Polish situation”) [Jaruzelski letter to MT and other heads of state] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Howe, Jenkin, Biffen, Robert Wade-Gery) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Schmidt/Reagan meeting: Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: FCO briefing for MT (“Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Poland: US measures against the Soviet Union”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: Israeli PM Begin to President Reagan (Israeli invasion of Lebanon) [compares to British action in Falklands] [declassified 2015] |
| 82 Jun 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: President Reagan draft letter to Israeli PM (questions Israeli invasion of Lebanon) [urges ceasefire] [declassified 2015] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [unredacted version] [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: MT message to President Reagan (reaction to the repression in Poland: disunity among Allies) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: President Reagan letter to MT (joining in the special broadcast “Let Poland be Poland”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Washington to FCO (“Poland: US Measures against the Soviet Union”) [the public debate: press reports] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKE Washington to FCO (“President Reagan’s Press Conference, 18 February: Polish Debt”) [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jul 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Your Visit to Washington”) [East-West relations, Middle East, Central America, Argentina-Falklands, bilateral issues, US economy] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Your Visit to Washington: 13-15 July”) [UK-US bilateral relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Your Call on President Reagan”) [UK-US cooperation, defence and arms control, East-West relations, Northern Ireland, Central America] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Meeting with Reagan”) [bilateral topics] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Northern Ireland: St. Patrick’s Day”) [Reagan’s reception at the Irish Embassy] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Northern Ireland: President Reagan’s St. Patrick Day Statement”) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Vernon Walters ("Falklands Dispute") ["Brits in warlike mood - high strung, unpredictable … UK probably wants big sea battle to give Thatcher a 'victory' … Must stop their fleet"] [declassified 2001] |
| 85 Oct 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (“President Reagan’s Meeting with Allied Leaders”) [MT suggestions to Reagan: points to make to Gorbachev] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: Southern Africa”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“President Reagan’s Address to UNGA 24 October”) [US-Soviet relations, regional conficts] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“MBFR”) [UK proposals on arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan: Arms Control Aspects”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: MT letter to President Reagan (advice on his meeting with Gorbachev) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan in New York”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation ("President Reagan") [Reagan's health - MT phone conversation with the Reagans & in person with Bush] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Visit: Political Subjects”) [Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Middle East, SDI, South Africa, terrorism, MSE] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Haig message from Buenos Aires to President Reagan ("Message to the President from the Secretary of State") ["very little give here … We are not at point where break is inevitable but events could unfold rapidly"] [declassified 2001] |
| 82 Oct 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s visit to Canada: Meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister”) [both agreed “the UK/Canada relationship was both close and in danger of being allowed to drift”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 85 Apr 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Call by new Canadian High Commissioner”) [“McMurtry spoke of trying to identify fields for new initiatives in UK-Canada relations”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 83 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Coles minute to MT (“Possible visit to the United States & Canada”) [MT’s views] [declassified December 2014] |
| 86 Feb 23 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: White House memcon (President Mitterrand-Ambassador Vernon Walters) [possible cooperation over Libya] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to Egyptian President Mubarak (Libyan terrorism) [explains US action] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: UPI report (Libya) [reports from Washingon that Weinberger dissenting from Libyan attack; MT asked for permission to use FB-111s] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter (Libya) [message to Lubbers; instructions for Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 13 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Spanish PM Gonzalez letter to President Reagan (Libyan terrorism) ["I consider inappropriate the resorting to this type of war actions" (sic)] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: USE The Hague to State Department ("EC Foreign Ministers April 14 Statement on Terrorism") ["gravely concerned … the twelve underline the need for restraint on all sides"] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter ("Letters regarding Libyan terrorism") [presidential letters to Mitterrand, Chirac, Kohl, Craxi, Gonzalez & MT] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter telegram to Vernon Walters ("Special instructions for Presidential Emissary Walters") [request overflight for FB-111s flying from UK (request then cancelled but too late)] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [decisions needed in afternoon meeting] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Poindexter ("Next steps: Libya") [draft memo for the President] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [draft letters to European leaders] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("NSDD: Counter-Terrorist Operations against Libya") [targetting & additional planning] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President agrees with MT’s understanding of the situation] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President "sincerely appreciates" MT's stand; ""we will do everything possible to help you"] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 May 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Syria, Libya, terrorism: NSC notes of conversation (NSC officials, Cradock & Acland) [Syria, Lebanon, terrorism] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Mar 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Terrorism: Oliver North memo for Poindexter ("US-UK Bilateral Talks on Terrorism, March 5, 1986") [topics covered by "semi-annual and very frank talks with the UK on terrorism"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Apr 6 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Response to Libyan Terrorist Attacks") [recommendations of Terrorist Operations Sub-Group after Berlin disco bombing] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("CABO Cable to PM Thatcher and Message from you to Bianco") ["disappointment and confusion over the exact policy of France towards Libya"] [declassified 2005] |
| 82 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Saudi Minister of Planning, Saudi Director-General of Planning) [Saudi infrastructure; oil; UK economy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | 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] |
| 84 Jan 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Burt briefing for Shultz ("Your visit to the UK, Jan 11-12 Scope Paper") [“This past fall, pressures on the US/UK relationship have been stronger than at any time since Suez”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General Election: State Department memo to White House (“President’s congratulatory telephone call to Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“a victory not only for your party but also for Britain, the NATO alliance and US/British relations”] [declassified 2003] |
| 85 Jun 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Ingham minute (meeting with Ian MacGregor) [IM suggests fundraising using model employed by Reagan] [released 2015] |
| 85 May 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Law and order: MT letter to Mrs Mary Whitehouse (child sex abuse) [concerns about scale of abuse, import of pornography] [released 2015] |
| 83 Jul 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Central America: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher defends U.S. policy towards Central America”) [“Reagan is seeking to help the people in Central America choose their own governments”] [declassified 2003] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Reagan message to MT (50th anniversary of British Council) [“It has set high standards in the art of cultural diplomacy for free countries around the globe”] [declassified 2005] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US Embassy London memo for Shultz (“The Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [King Hussein, terrorism and peace talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: Shultz memo for Reagan (“My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [MT would not sit down with a Jordanian-PLO delegation “unless the PLO rejected terrirosim”] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: Burt briefing for Shultz (briefing Reagan on your meeting with MT) [“she stressed with me that ceasing to observe the SALT I and SALT II limits would be a ‘major step’ … the greatest nation on earth doesn’t break treaties”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Nov 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jun 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: congratulatory messages”) [what to send in event of MT or Kinnock victories, or hung parliament] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“British elections: suggested press line”) [what to say in event of MT or Kinnock victories, or hung parliament] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | General election: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Thatcher’s third term: what’s in it for us?”) [“the US-UK defense relationship remains intact and Britain’ alliance role assured”] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan (MT victory at general election) [“We understand no significant changes are coming in personnel in the foreign policy area”] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US State Dept draft schedule (MT visit to Washington) [meetings with key personnel 16-17 July 1987] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Visit of Prime Minister Thatcher: Your briefing of the President, July 16, 5:45pm”) [respective priorities: arms control, Soviet talks, Middle East] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: U.S.-Soviet summit prospects”) [arms control: “We would like agreements if they are ready, but it is not a precondition”] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, December 16 at 11:00am”) [MT’s views on Gorbachev’s domestic policies, human rights, arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Foreign policy: Ridgway scope paper for Shultz (visit to London) [“Our views on most major foreign policy questions coincide, but Mrs Thatcher puts a slightly different spin on arms control, dealing with Gorbachev, and the Middle East peace process”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, November 16, 2:45pm”) [International Fund for Ireland, Middle East, economic issues, Southern Africa] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Berlin issues”) [discussions with Soviets on Reagan’s Berlin initiative] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: East-West relations”) [“Ongoing changes in East Bloc have created opportunities; but essential to maintain consistent approach to deal effectively with continued challenges to Western interests”] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Nov 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Chemical weapons”) [Bush’s draft treaty as a basis for negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
| 88 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, December 16 at 11:00am”) [relations with Gorbachev, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Middle East peace process, South Africa, terrorism] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Oct 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Your Meeting with Ambassador Acland: Ocobert 28, 3:00 pm") [Acland conveying MT's view of Reykjavik; telegram of his 23 Oct conversation with Shultz] [declassified 2005] |
| 83 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: North memo for McFarlane ("Call from Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick") [has "re-established rapport" with MT] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lavin & Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [have done everything to accommodate the British, who still want more; President playing unprecedented role in visit arrangements] [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Jul 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Thatcher desire to see the President before any summit with Gorbachev") [Powell says she may propose mid-Nov visit, possibly over a weekend] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Sep 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Visit by Prime Minister Thatcher to Washington") [Powell says MT thinking of 14-15 Nov; visit "a la December 1984"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: John Kerr note (asks White House to explore 14/15 Nov visit) ["main purpose to discuss US-Soviet summit"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [suggests a small Friday meeting in Washington; do not break President's weekend] [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: USE London to State Department ("British Elections") ["our stake in the outcome of that election cannot be overstated"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [acknowledges President "wants to do the event at Camp David"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Cobb memo for Poindexter ("Presidential phone call to PM Thatcher") [open line call; talking points on proposed agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years, "if raised"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [suggests early announcement in view of UK story that MT had cancelled following Reykjavik] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Washington") [Charles Powell saying MT had no intention of seeking a joint statement; "no draft communiques would be up her sleeve"] [declassified 2007] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev’s approach march to a summit”) [“the indications are that he sees the potential gains as outweighing the risks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Gorbachev message to MT (proposed US-USSR summit) [“the whole process of Soviet-American dialogue was in need of a serious impulse”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Gorbachev (proposed US-USSR summit) [“it should be possible to reach agreements … on reductions in arms”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Reagan message to MT (US-USSR to hold summit in Reykjavik) [“symbolically important that Mr. Gorbachve suggested holding the meeting on the soil of a member of the NATO alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“I see this as a very positive step”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Shultz message to Howe (announcement of US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“we believe that progress in U.S.-Soviet relations is possible, and we remain committed to achieving it”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [US, Soviet aims for Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Reagan message to MT (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“prepared for serious exchanges in all four areas of the U.S.-Soviet agenda”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT message to Reagan (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“INF seems to offer the best prospect for agreement on arms reductions”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Reagan message to MT (proposed summit with Soviets) [“A constructive outcome … will depend heavily on intensive consultations and the maintenance of allied unity”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Kohl’s messages”) [“Kohl supported the US position on LRINF … he stressed the importance of conventional arms control as well”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: German views”) [Teltschik said “perhaps it was just as well that the meeting in Reykjavik had broken up when it did”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“ Karpov’s visit to Bonn”) [prospects of agreements on arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: NAC briefing by Nitze and Ridgway: other arms control and East/West issues”) [“Human rights will head US agenda”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: NAC briefing by Shultz”) [“Shultz said that beneath the disappointment of the moment was a positive sense that possibilities had been opened up for far-reaching arms control agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s briefing of NATO ministers”) [discussions with Soviets on Daniloff and arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s bilateral with Shevardnadze, 23 September”) [“A businessmanlike discussion which covered a lot of ground in one hour”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: French reactions”) [“The government continues to be nervous of US concessions on INF”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram to FCO (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Post Geneva summit US/Soviet Activity”) [appointment of US ambassador, Reagan message on human rights] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: summit prospects”) [US ambassador’s “disappointment with the current Soviet approach to East/West relations”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: President Reagan’s message to Gorbachev”) [Reagan calls for a second summit] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Zagladin: East/West relations”) [proposals for second summit, SALT II] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Aug 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”) [agreement on date for meeting] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Daniloff: comment”) [“The Russians may well have miscalculated”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: prepatory summit”) [“External and internal developments since the Geneva summit have increased the risks inherent in a visit by Gorbachev to the USA”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: preliminary view from Moscow”) [“Gorbachev put an unexpectedly high price - severe SDI constraint - on agreement in other arms control areas … which me must have known Reagan would be unlikely to pay”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: Politburo communique”) [failure “was the stubborn unwillingness of the American administration to create conditions for reaching these agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting: Gorbachev’s television statement”) [“performance designed to show the extent of Soviet efforts to secure agreement”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting”) [Soviet position on arms control, human rights] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: INF/SDI linkage”) [contrasting reports on Soviet position] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Expulsion of US diplomats from the Soviet Union and measures to restrict US Embassy activities”) [five declared persona non grata, all locally employed staff to be withdrawn] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Press Office bulletin (“Call by Mr Karpov”) [“both sides agreed it was vital to find a way forward”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO draft (Lady Young statement to House of Lords on Reykjavik) [“We believe it imperative that both sides return to the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US-Soviet Meeting in Reykjavik: Message to President Reagan”) [“The INF field contains at present the best prospect for an agreement (though not at Reykjavik)”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US/Soviet Reykjavik meeting”) [agree to proposed use by Reagan of UK Ambassador’s residence in Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan: “I want to congratulate you on getting so close to a new range of agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan designed “to deny Gorbachev the easy propaganda points for which he may now be looking”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jan 2 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Future US/Soviet meetings”) [conflicting reports of proposals for additional summits] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jan 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet nuclear and arms control negotiations: US approach to Geneva Round IV”) [“There are no significant new elements in the President’s instructions”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Gorbachev proposals on arms control”) [“Initial reactions within the administration differ widely”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Timing of US/Soviet summit”) [“Press reports of US impatience at Soviet delay in agreeing a summit date are exaggerated”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Mar 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Shultz meeting with Ryzhkov: 15 March”) [timing of a further US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US-Soviet relations”) [“No date yet for summit, but summer not yet ruled out”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 May 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Invitation to Soviet defence minister to visit the US”) [“to discuss quote the wide gulf on issues related to each other’s military forces, doctrine and intentions unquote”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jun 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Geneva negotiations: new Soviet proposals”) [“for a ban on ASATS and a ban on the offensive use of defensive systems … such linkage would be bad news”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jun 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“apparently no progress on summit dates”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Jul 2 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“there is no progress on fixing a Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [Soviet position on Daniloff] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Daniloff”) [Reagan described the detention “as an outrage and as a ‘violation of the standards of civilised international behaviour’”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Visit of Secretary of State: East/West relations”) [discussions with Acland “focussed on Daniloff, which was clearly at the top of Shultz’s mind”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Initial press verdict on latest developments reasonably positive, with spotlight shifting from Daniloff to Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [“US view that the meeting should give impetus to work in hand, but should not itself involve negotiation on texts”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prospects for Reykjavik”) [“the core of the substantive discussion will be on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit”) [“a set-back for the President … there is now no immediate prospect of the substantive summit here on which he had set such store”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s television address”) [“we’re closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: US reactions”) [“Widespread concern among the experts at the US proposal for mutual abolition of all ballistic missiles”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: President’s conversation with the Prime Minister”) [Reagan said the summit “had cleared the way for an agreement on INF despite Soviet insistence on linkage”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik”) [“President launches SDI as Congressional election campaign issue … Polls show support for the President’s handling of the issue at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik”) [Shultz: “the elimination of ballistic missiles was quote a long way down the road unquote”; "Allied military staffs exaggerated the extent of the Warsaw Pact advantage" in conventional weapons in Europe] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 81 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Royal family: HMQ's Private Secretary letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s audiences with the Queen) [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Jan 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: MT message to President Reagan (foreign exchange markets) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: President Reagan message to MT (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: MT message to President Reagan (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington telegram to UKE Washington (“text of a letter from Haig to me received today”) [US concerns about credits to the USSR] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Buckley mission”: credits to USSR) [conversation between Nicholas Henderson & James Buckley] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Measures against the Soviet Union”) [conversation between Derek Thomas & Norman Bailey] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington minute to MT (“Strategic exports to the Soviet Union”) [Defence considerations] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 29 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Grain sales to USSR”) [reaction to lifting of US embargo] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“US grain embargo”) [US notification of ending] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 (“French wheat sale to Soviet Union”) [UK registers protest at US green light for deal] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Nov 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East West economic relations (pipeline)”) [effect of US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 7 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East-West economic relations (pipeline)”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 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 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East/West economic relations (pipeline): public handling”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Nov 6 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East/West economic relations (pipeline)”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Nov 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East-West economic relations (pipeline): Seven Plus Two meeting”) [G7 negotiations over US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan on grain sales to USSR”) [criticism of Carter trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 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 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 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 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Siberian pipeline: Commerce Secretary Baldridge’s statement”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“East West economic relations: Siberian pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“US oil and gas measures (pipeline)”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield PS letter to Pym PS (“East-West economic issues/Siberian pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (“East/West economic issues - Siberian pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan on grain sales to the USSR”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Nott (“Soviet pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT telegram to President Reagan (existing trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions and Middle East policy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Siberian pipeline: Mr Weinberger’s letter”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Lord Cockfield letter to MT (existing trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Cockfield PS (“John Brown Engineering”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US sanctions against Siberian pipeline: US press comment”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: President Reagan telegram to MT (existing UK trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT telegram to President Reagan (existing UK trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Bush Sr., Haig, Nicholas Henderson, William P. Clark) [US trade sanctions, Falklands, Middle East] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield minute to MT (“West Siberian pipeline/John Brown engineering”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (“Credit restrictions for the Soviet Union”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Intelligence activities by Warsaw Pact civil aircraft over the United Kingdom) [Joint Intelligence Committee report] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“President Brezhnev’s 75th birthday”) [MT: “I really don’t think we should send a message”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Gromyko”) [Gromyko conversation with Curtis Keeble] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Soviet contacts”) [MT unhappy with Carrington proposal to renew contact without US consultation] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador, Julian Bullard) [“Message from President Brezhnev”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“26th Congress of the CPSU: Brezhnev’s speech”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Biffen PS letter to No.10 (“Overseas projects: competitors’ practices”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Biffen minute to MT (“US textiles”) [UK at odds with EC over imports issue] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Conservative Research Department briefing for Conservative MPs (“Textiles, clothing and footwear”) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Textiles”) [problem of US imports] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 May 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington to UKE Luanda (Chester Crocker message for Goulding) [the US position on Cabinda incident] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington to FCO (“US-South Africa”) [Reagan signs executive order introducing sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington to FCO (“US-South Africa”) [Crocker says no change in US opposition to mandatory UN sanctions] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKE Washington to FCO (“US-South Africa”) [Reagan to sign executive order distancing USG from apartheid while avoiding economically destructive measures] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | US: Howe PS minute to Coles (“Visits by US Presidents”) [Reagan stay at Winfield House not the longest - Whitmore: 'Pity'] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit 1984”) [proposed declaration on traffic in narcotics: precedents set by previous Summits; MT’s position] [released Dec 2014] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“1984 Economic Summit”) [meeting with Reagan’s Personal Representative: line to take on dates, style and format, how well preparations are going] [released Dec 2014] |
| 83 Jun 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: President Reagan letter to message to MT (Economic Summit) [congratulations on “landslide victory” at election, proposed dates for London summit] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: President Reagan letter to to MT (Economic Summit) [accepts invitation; focus should be on building on consensus reached at Williamsburg] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Feb 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (“President Reagan and the London Summit”) [likelihood of Reagan accepting dinner invitation] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [terrorism issue has not been raised at meetings of personal representatives, but Reagan may continue to push for a multilateral solution] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [Reagan will want to discuss terrorism and is likely to press for a declaration] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 May 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Howe PS letter to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [opportunity to discuss Summit-related issues and wider political questions] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan and the London Economic Summit”) [timing of bilateral with Reagan] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (“Visit of President Reagan for the London Economic Summit”) [MT “envisages tete-a-tete talks but would prefer to leave open for decision nearer the time”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO telegram to UKE Paris (“London Economic Summit: Bilateral Meetings”) [proposed times and dates for meetings with fellow leaders] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Mar 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | US: Howe PS minute to Coles (“Visits by US Presidents”) [Reagan stay at Winfield House] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: President Reagan message to MT (MT Perth speech) [“At a time when the Soviets are trying to drive a wedge between us, it is particularly gratifying that you have spoken out so forcefully”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 May 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Your Bilateral Meeting with President Reagan”) [hour for talks and a working dinner; would be useful to have a record but understands if MT wants to be alone with Reagan] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 May 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Inland Revenue letter to FCO (“Unitary tax - handling at the Summit”) [should be raised at bilateral with Reagan and foreign ministers’ satellite meetings] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Economic Summit: American Expectations”) [Reagan wants “an outcome that will play well in his election campaign”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit: Draft Declaration on Democratic Values”) [potential difficulties with proposed American amendments] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US Public Reactions to the Summit”) [“clearly reflecting heavy official briefing, generally favourable”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reagan on Summits”) [Reagan’s positive stance on London; press focus on possible US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Walker PS minute to John Coles (“London Summit: Lunch 8 June”) [discussion of adequacy of oil stock levels] [released Dec 2014] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Kurt Waldheim, Perez de Cuellar) [Northern Ireland, E/W, Afghanistan, Iraq/Iran, Lebanon, Cambodia, Namibia, Middle East, South Lebanon, Cyprus] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKA Washington despatch to Lord Carrington (“The Reagan Administration’s economic policy - an initial assessment”) [assesses content, prospects in Congress & chances of success] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: MT letter to President Reagan (G7 summit) [forthcoming CHOGM, Nancy Reagan's visit to UK for Royal Wedding] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President Reagan letter to MT (thanks) [assassination attempt and meetings with MT] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: MT letter to President Reagan (message of congratulations) [maiden flight of ‘Columbia’] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Secretary of State Haig, Lawrence Eagleburger) [Middle East, India/Pakistan, Spain in NATO, USSR/Poland] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: FCO record of conversation (Carrington, Gilmour, Haig, Lawrence Eagleburger) [Middle East] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT visit to US) [inauguration] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT speech to the Pilgrims’ Dinner) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (President Reagan) [evaluation by Dr Edward Luttwak] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: President-elect Reagan letter to MT (thanks for her congratulations) [looks forward to another meeting] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Vatican: No.10 record of conversation (MT, delegation from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences) [nuclear arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Zimbabwe: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (report on visit to Africa) [Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Egypt] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | United Nations: FCO telegram to Missions and Dependent Territories (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | United Nations: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to N0.10 (“Global negotiations”) [framework for discussions] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan: tax increase”) [“no longer any early prospect of the economy picking up significantly”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Aug 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US tax increases”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s press conference”) [economy, Middle East, Poland] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s press conference”) [defense of economic policy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 28 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan, Congress and the economy”) [“at loggerheads and… at a standstill”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for February 1982”) [“budget proposals are unlikely to pass Congress”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US business opinions about President Reagan’s FY83 budget proposals”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US budget deficits”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US economy: the political context, the economic outlook and the role of the Federal reserve”) [“a messy fight is in prospect”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s press conference 18 February: the economy”) [“not yet out of the woods”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“United States: budget for FY83”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“US economic policy and the Alliance”) [“increasing strain… between the United States and Europe”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US interest rates”) [concerns about US budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Carrington (“US economic policy and the Alliance”) [concerns about US budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“The US recession and President Reagan’s economic recovery programme”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (US economy) [scepticism about anti-inflation programme] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US economic recovery programme”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 27 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer telegram to MT (“The state of policy in the United States”) [“pressing the Americans… to reduce their budget deficit”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Sep 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan and the economy”) [budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US economic policy”) [concern about high interest rates] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Aug 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [“doubts have been expressed”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prospects for the U.S. economy”) [“concern expressed by other countries”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“President Reagan’s economic recovery programme: the present position”) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Aug 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for July 1980”) [“decline in US economic activity is continuing”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Jenkin minute to MT (“US visit - March 22 - April 22, 1982”) [trade mission] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s dinner with the American Ambassador on 21 January 1982”) [USSR, Poland, Middle East, El Salvador, trade, Reagan visit to UK] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (“Poland: economic measures towards the Soviet Union”) [“major transatlantic row” brewing] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: FCO record of conversation (“Call on the Secretary of State by the American Ambassador”) [Lord Carrington, John Jeffry Louis Jr.] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Radio Marti”) [‘Radio Free Cuba’] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 minute to MT (Eldon Griffiths visit to US) [negative press coverage; Northern Ireland] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Apr 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“US trade representative”) [visit to UK] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 letter to FCO (“Contacts with the Reagan team”) [proposed MT first meeting with Reagan as President] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Paris letter to FCO (US election result) [notes MT likely to get on particularly well with Reagan] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Vatican: MT letter to Dr. Max F. Perutz (nuclear arms control) [Vatican concerns about US policy] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Vatican: MT letter to Pope John Paul II (Papal World Peace Day message on nuclear arms control) [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Vatican: FCO briefing for MT (“Message from the Pope about nuclear weapons”) [meeting with delegation on arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Dec 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Vatican: FCO letter to No.10 (“Message from the Pope to the Queen about nuclear weapons”) [delegation on arms control] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Washington letter to FCO (“Falklands: US media comment”) [Franks report and MT visit] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit to the Falklands/Mexican reactions”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: President Reagan message for MT (helicopter crash at Mannheim: death of British citizens) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Dec 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Vice-President Bush letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [wishes "we could sit down and chat because I have been troubled by recent tensions"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [defends] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 telegram to Heseltine PS and Howe PS (“US certification and arms sales”) [MT decides to avoid major row over certification; "take up the cudgels" only if major US arms sale in prospect] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram to UKE Athens (“Argentina: US certification”) [concerns about backlash over lack of UK support for US action in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: US Ambassador Price letter to MT (message from the President on certification of Argentina) [MT annotates critically] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (arms sales to Argentina) [Reagan defends US policy - MT sceptical] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT (“Franks”) [material for Commons debate] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Franks’ Report”) [comments on proof version] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Sir Antony Acland minute to Cabinet Office (“Franks Report”) [arrangements to warn US] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [“The Franks Report”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Jan 26 We | Declassified documents |
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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 |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Heseltine APS briefing to No.10 (“Franks Debate”) [critique of Owen defence points] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT (“Franks”) [Commons debate on Falklands report] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT ('Franks') [Commons debate on Falklands report] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Argentina”) [concerns over re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (message to Shultz on arms sales to Argentina) [US gives confidential assurance to consult UK prior to any sales] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 note to MT (Tam Dalyell MP ‘Wall Street Journal’ article) [allegations regarding circumstances surrounding sinking of ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Howe telegram to UKHC New Delhi (“Anti-Americanism in the UK and the certification of Argentina”) [likely resumption of US arms sales to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands at the General Assembly: American position”) [MT - “too mild in tone”] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (SDI research programme and policy) [“we have made no decision to go beyond research”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (SALT II) [welcomes US decision to observe existing strategic arms agreements] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Geneva Talks) [value of consultations; her Moscow talks with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 10 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet talks on arms control in Geneva: US objectives) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Caspar Weinberger letter to Michael Heseltine (allied participation in SDI research programme) [requests response within 60 days] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: State Department Fact Sheet (“The Strategic Defence Initiative”) [direction and scope of the SDI research programme] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Lisbon to FCO (“Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting: SALT II Contraints”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Washington to FCO (“Interim Restraints”) [Reagan’s decisions on SALT II] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Washington to FCO (“SALT II Interim Restraints”) [Reagan’s press statement] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: MOD minute to No.10 (“US Presidential Chemical Warfare Review Commission (PRC)”) [UK view] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: UKE Washington to FCO (“US-Soviet Arms Control Negotiations: US Approach”) [defence, space, START, INF Treaty] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 25 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Meeting between the Secretary of State and Chinese Foreign Minister, 1 April”) [conversation between Lord Carrington and Huang Hua] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Nov 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | China: Carrington minute to Pym (“COCOM: defence sales to China”) [UK seeks to reassure allies] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 86 May 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016] |
| 83 Dec 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Howe minute to MT (“European public opinion and nuclear weapons”) [differing attitudes in northern and southern spheres] [declassified 2016] |
| 83 May 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 83 Feb 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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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 Jan 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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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] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 internal minute: Ingham to Coles (Nuclear deterrence and disarmament) [case for MT to give major speech] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Libya: UK reaction III”) [British deaths in Beirut, Heathrow bomb attempt “fueled further controversy over the Libya raid”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to White House (“Libya - Support from Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“She could hardly have been more resolute as an ally and a friend”] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Feb 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Talks in Washington”) [comparative employment benefits in the US and other countries] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | USA: MT letter to M. E. Pellew (MT visit to Washington) [dinner for President Reagan] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Cabinet Office telegram to White House (copy of letter from MT to President Reagan) [thanking for his hospitality during her visit to Washington] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit”) [“text of President Reagan’s statement on the White House lawn at 2.30 today”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Briefing Meeting for Washington”) [speaking notes on arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 briefing for MT (“Visit to Washington: briefing meeting: 14 February”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit - economic aspects”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with President Reagan: Laker”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: foreign policy issues”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit”) [US internal political matters] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: Northern Ireland”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s visit to Washington: economic briefing”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall letter to MT (UK-US relations) [MT visit to US] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 minute to MT (“Announcement of your visit to Washington”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [“Prime Minister’s visit to Washington in February: arms control”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 minute to MT (“Your visit to the United States in February”) [declassified 2014] |
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