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

Document type: File list item
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 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: MT visiting Northern Ireland
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 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]
83 Jan 7 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MoD (“Overboots for the Army”) [MT would like the complaint investigated] [declassified December 2014]
83 Jan 16 Su Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Overboots for the Army”) [MoD response to enquiries] [declassified December 2014]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Lyon minute to Coles (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister”) [amendments to Standard Operating Procedure] [declassified December 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (Operation Abercorn) [outline programme] [declassified December 2014]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [media arrangements for visit] [declassified December 2014]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Woodfield minute to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [programme and supporting brief for visit] [declassified December 2014]
83 Dec 21 We Major Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [plan and draft statement for visit] [declassified December 2014]