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1982 Dec 2 - 1985 Sep 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1547
Ireland (Prime Minister's visits to Northern Ireland) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 266
Any docs withheld? 2

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82 Dec 2 Th Major Northern Ireland: NIO Establishment Division minute to Flesher (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister - Codeword”) [Operation Piston] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (“Visit to Northern Ireland”) [outline programme] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT (“Northern Ireland - Media”) [confine the visit to camera shots, doorstep interviews, camera statement] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [draft message and programme] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“Operation Piston”) [proposed programme and briefing note] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Woodfield note to Butler (Operation Piston) [draft MT statement and programme] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (Ballykelly incident) [suggests MT spend time with medical staff] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (MT visit to Northern Ireland) [media arrangements] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“Operation Piston”) [visit to Musgrave Park Hospital] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Northern Ireland: NIO note to MT (“Procedure for a N. Ireland visit by PM”) [obtain briefs, movement operations, travel plan] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 22 We Minor Northern Ireland: Mayor Auld letter to MT (thanks for visit) [“in North Down people of all political parties and religious denominations live together in peace”] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 22 We Major Northern Ireland: MT message (Christmas visit) [“freedom and justice means that we are free to live together in the way we choose”]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MoD (overboots for troops) [MT wonders if boots can be manufactured in UK] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 23 Th Minor Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“The Prime Minister’s Visit to Northern Ireland - 22 December 1982”) [names and addresses] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: MT visiting Northern Ireland
82 Dec 29 We Minor Northern Ireland: MT note to Major Alison Anderson (visit to Musgrave Park Hospital) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 29 We Minor Northern Ireland: MT note to Group Captain David Whittaker (helicopter transport during visit) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 29 We Minor Northern Ireland: MT note to J.T. Good (visit to Bangor) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 29 We Minor Northern Ireland: MT note to Ian Hunter (carols in Bangor) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 29 We Minor Northern Ireland: MT note to M. Johnstone (visit to Gough Barracks) [RUC members involved in terrorist incidents] [declassified December 2014]