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1982 Apr 9 - 1985 Dec 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1655
USA (Visits to UK by George Shultz, US Secretary of State: meetings with Prime Minister)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 271
Any docs withheld? 6

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82 Apr 30 Fr Major US: No.10 letter to Pym PS (“Visit of Mr. George Shultz”) [possible lunch at Chequers] [declassified 2014]
82 May 7 Fr Major US: No.10 letter to Pym PS (message to the Prime Minister from President Reagan) [Versaille and Bonn summits; proposal to open START talks with USSR] [declassified 2014]
82 May 7 Fr Major US: Treasury briefing for MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Meetings with Mr Regan and Mr Shultz”) [need to discuss new US budget package including social security and tax cuts, US deficit] [declassified 2014]
82 May 9 Su Major US: No.10 record of conversation (1030Z) (MT, George Shultz) [US deficit, trade, international monetary framework] [declassified 2014]
82 Jul 7 We Major US: UKE Washington telegram 2370 to FCO (2339Z) (“George Shultz”) [“he is lying low reading papers and not seeing anybody until his confirmation by the Senate”] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We Major US: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Shultz’s visit to Paris”) [“it seems that Shultz did a very competent job in repairing bilateral relations and enabling discussion to move forward”] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 15 We Major US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Visit of the American Secretary of State 16th-19th December 1982”) [East/West relations; defence/arms control; Middle East; agriculture; trade] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 16 Th Major US: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Shultz’s visit to Paris”) [US/USSR negotiations; East/West economic relations] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 16 Th Major US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute MT (link between US deficit and interest rates) [further to his own, and prior to MT’s, meeting with Shultz] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 16 Th Minor US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr. George Shultz: 17 December 1982”) [international economic situation] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [US economic policy, congressional elections, cruise missiles, Falklands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 28 Tu Major US: UK Ambassador to US letter to FCO (“George Shultz: the calming influence”) [Shultz “shares the President’s conservative attitudes in foreign and domestic policies”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 3 Su Major US: Shultz letter to Howe (developments in Middle East require his presence) [regrets meetings with Howe and MT cancelled] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 21 We Major US: UKE Washington telegram 3827 to FCO (1516Z) (George Shultz’s visit) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 30 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 3899 to FCO (2154Z) (“Shultz’s visit to London”) [news beginning to leak, State Department to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major US: No.10 note to FCO (MT meeting with Shultz) [MT requests Howe and Acland attend] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 134 to FCO (0320Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz: East/West relations”) [“the handling of the relationship with the Soviet Union will be a major theme”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 135 to FCO (0322Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz: Middle East”) [“domestic pressures for withdrawal of US land forces are likely to grow strongly in an election year”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major US: UKE Washington telegram 133 to FCO (0310Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz”) [Soviet Union, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major US: Howe minute to MT (“Visit of Mr Shultz: 15/16 January”) [“I do not propose to tackle George Shultz about transatlantic relations as such”] [declassified 2014]