Archive

Large scale document archive

1981 Feb 20 - 1985 Oct 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1657
USA (Prime Minister's visit to Washington and New York, February 1981) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 103
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), British relations with the US, MT contacts with Ronald Reagan, MT messages to and from world leaders, MT's meetings as PM

PREM19/1657 - download whole file (PDF, 17.25 MB)

Selections from this file

Showing items 1 - 20 of 22

Date Value Title
81 Feb 20 Fr Major US: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Washington) [talks with Reagan; meetings on the Hill; US space programme budget cuts; honorary degree ceremony; Donovan award; Economic Industrial Lunch] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 26 Th Major US: FCO record of conversation (MT-Economic Industrial lunch in Washington) [economic situation in Britain; Secretary Regan account of US policy; industrial policy] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 27 Fr Major US: FCO telegram 360 to UKE Washington (1555Z) (Donald Regan criticism of UK economic policy) [Regan ‘plain talk’ ruffles diplomatic feathers during MT visit] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 4 to FCO (0405Z) (“edited extracts of the Prime Minister’s tv interview) [foreign policy, arms control] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 714 to FCO (0800Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Afghanistan/Pakistan”) [“there seemed no risk at the moment that Pakistan’s position would change markedly”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 716 to FCO (0810Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Falkland Islands”) [“Our aim was to keep the dialogue going and avoid a crisis”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 708 to FCO (0730Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: review of the Alliance”) [Haig said “the prospect of another round of Alliance studies … was a personal nightmare”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 707 to FCO (0724Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Middle East”) [“although there were some differences of emphasis betwen the US and European views, the two sides were to some extent of a single mind”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 712 to FCO (0750Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Belize”) [prospects for a settlement] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 717 to FCO (0814Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: bilateral relations”) [US visa requirements, US licensing of exports] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 715 to FCO (0805Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: North/South summit”) [Reagan would attend if postponed and Castro not present] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 709 to FCO (0734Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: arms control”) [Carrington “emphasised the need for the Europeans to be reassured that the new administration would continue the two-prong approach to TNF”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 710 to FCO (0737Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Namibia”) [“Haig said that the new administration were taking a careful look at the complex of Southern African problems”] [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 28 Sa Major US: UKE Washington telegram 711 to FCO (0740Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Mr Haig: Zimbabwe”) [Carrington “asked that the new administration should show maximum generosity towards Zimbabwe at the donors’ conference”] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 1 Su Major US: UKE Washington telegram 721 to FCO (1830Z) (“Visit of the Prime Minister and Lord Carrington to the USA: 25-28 February 1981”) [Reagan said he looked to the visit “as that of a leader who had a similar approach to international issues and economic policy”] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 3 Tu Major US: Couzens letter to Sprinkel (Regan testimony to Congress re: MT's economic policies) [offers "one or two corrections"] [declassified 2010]
81 Mar 3 Tu Major US: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister’s visit to Washington”) [proposed messages to Schmidt and Giscard] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 4 We Major US: No.10 letter to British Aerospace (AV8B and Hawk aircrafts) [while in Washington MT “took every opportunity to encourage the Americans to buy British defence equipment”] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 5 Th Major US: Ingham letter to Peter Hall (MT’s visit to Washington) [“The truth is that this was not a newsy visit”] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 5 Th Minor US: No.10 note to MT (Lord Thomas) [request to meet with MT] [declassified 2014]