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Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support proposals: "dramatic increase in both the total contract value of the order... and the resulting... [UK] credit exposure"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Read more about Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support proposals: "dramatic increase in both the total contract value of the order... and the resulting... [UK] credit exposure"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Defence: MT letter to King Fahd (sale of Tornado and Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["I trust that the final negotiations... may now proceed... As a mark of my desire to bring this message directly to Your Majesty's attention, I have asked Michael Heselti

Read more about Defence: MT letter to King Fahd (sale of Tornado and Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["I trust that the final negotiations... may now proceed... As a mark of my desire to bring this message directly to Your Majesty's attention, I have asked Michael Heselti

Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 289 to FCO (1055Z) ("Arms for Argentina") [statement by Italian MFA, 20 May - no Italian permission to export Exocets to Peru via Italian territory] [declassified Dec 2012]

Read more about Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 289 to FCO (1055Z) ("Arms for Argentina") [statement by Italian MFA, 20 May - no Italian permission to export Exocets to Peru via Italian territory] [declassified Dec 2012]

Defence: Lord Cockfield letter to Heseltine ("Sale of Tornado to Greece: credit terms") ["I entirely agree with you about the importance of gaining this order for Britain... I have now authorised ECGD to increase the credit portion to 85% in line with...

Read more about Defence: Lord Cockfield letter to Heseltine ("Sale of Tornado to Greece: credit terms") ["I entirely agree with you about the importance of gaining this order for Britain... I have now authorised ECGD to increase the credit portion to 85% in line with...

Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Sales - Quarterly Report: October - December 1982") ["total value of contracts signed during the year... compared with the 1981 total... an increase of... 16% in real terms.. the general picture on prospects... in

Read more about Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Sales - Quarterly Report: October - December 1982") ["total value of contracts signed during the year... compared with the 1981 total... an increase of... 16% in real terms.. the general picture on prospects... in

Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Tornado for Greece") ["could be worth approximately PS500m to the UK and maintain employment for some 2,000 workers... export orders are urgently needed... We face fierce French and American competition"; draft letter fro

Read more about Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Tornado for Greece") ["could be worth approximately PS500m to the UK and maintain employment for some 2,000 workers... export orders are urgently needed... We face fierce French and American competition"; draft letter fro

Defence: MT message to Prime Minister Papandreou (Tornado) ["I believe that the purchase of Tornado would demonstrate the importance attached by all the Government[s] concerned] to defence co-operation on a European basis"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Read more about Defence: MT message to Prime Minister Papandreou (Tornado) ["I believe that the purchase of Tornado would demonstrate the importance attached by all the Government[s] concerned] to defence co-operation on a European basis"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Defence: Prime Minister Papandreou letter to MT (sale of Tornado) [terms sought by Greece for the loan agreement and procurement of defence articles] [declassified Jan 2014]

Read more about Defence: Prime Minister Papandreou letter to MT (sale of Tornado) [terms sought by Greece for the loan agreement and procurement of defence articles] [declassified Jan 2014]

Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou (Tornado) ["Partnership in this venture, alongside the three current members of the consortium [UK, West Germany, Italy] would lead... to longer term co-operation in the defence, political and economic spher

Read more about Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou (Tornado) ["Partnership in this venture, alongside the three current members of the consortium [UK, West Germany, Italy] would lead... to longer term co-operation in the defence, political and economic spher

Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Tornado for Greece") [draft MT letter for Heseltine to give to Papandreou on his visit to Athens to attempt to secure contract] [declassified Jan 2014]

Read more about Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Tornado for Greece") [draft MT letter for Heseltine to give to Papandreou on his visit to Athens to attempt to secure contract] [declassified Jan 2014]

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