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1984 Jan 9 - 1985 Mar 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1504
Foreign Policy (Strategy on foreign policy and defence issues: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) resources) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 281
Any docs withheld? 1

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84 May 23 We Minor Foreign policy: Sir Stephen Hastings letter to MT (thoughts on Taiwan, Europe, Soviet subversion and international terrorism) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute to MT ("Meeting with the Prime Minister, 28 January") [background note in advance of meeting; East/West relations; SDI; arms control; Middle East; Central America; India; China; Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister on 20 July") [wide-ranging review of "points of special interest or concern" in foreign policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 27 Fr Key Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First Thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene" - annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 27 Fr Key Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fr Major Foreign policy: Sir Antony Acland letter to No.10 (follow-up to meeting on 5 January 1984) [FCO expenditure, organisation and procedure; East Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major Foreign policy: Sir Anthony Parsons note to Coles (Palestine: accounts of phone calls with King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Foreign policy: Rees minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [response to Foreign Secretary's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 5 Sa Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Antony Acland) [FCO expenditure; style of diplomacy; FCO procedures; FCO policy issues; FCO information; Prime Minister’s visits] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Secretary) [FCO expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [MT "reflected out loud ... on a number of current problems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 29 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 1 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("NATO Strategy") [papers produced by the Chiefs of Staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 11 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Policy") ["There is a danger of a number of foreign policy matters going wrong over the next few weeks and months"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [advice on response to minutes between the Foreign Secretary and Rees] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 12 Th Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [advice on response to Foreign Secretary's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CDS' Visit to Egypt, Pakistan and Oman") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Foreign policy: No.10 minute to Foreign Secretary PS ("Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Overseas Inflation") [response to Rees and Foreign Secretary's minutes] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mo Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Rees PS ("FCO Expenditure") [response to disagreement between Rees and Foreign Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Aug 29 We Major Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("Europe and Defence") ["The Prime Minister has commented that she doubts the need for so many "general point" papers since they get nowhere"] [declassified Dec 2014]