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PDF 81 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("Possible NATO Summit in 1982") [Nott suggests "that a Summit in 1982 might be a way of breathing life into the Alliance"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie MP memos ("Trident - what next?"/"The British Strategic Nuclear Deterrent") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("World This Weekend") [briefing for interview with BBC's Gordon Clough] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Prime Minister: Lord Beloff letter to Stephens ("The Government and the Intellectual Community") [Beloff requests meeting with MT to discuss] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Pope John Paul II (nuclear weapons) ["the purpose of possessing nuclear weapons is precisely to prevent their use"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Central Office record of conversation (MT-Officers and Area Chairmen of the Young Conservatives) [CND, media, Poland, youth unemployment, council housing, Enterprise Zones] [Gow comment on YC representatives: "Each is more ghastly than the other"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Max Perutz (nuclear weapons) ["I do not accept the view that the United States is moving to a strategy of a disarming first strike"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Nott (thanks for assistance with Mark Thatcher's rescue) [Mark Thatcher goes missing during Dakar Rally] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Reagan letter to MT (US willing to supply special nuclear materials to UK for nuclear weapon programme) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Reagan (MT thanks Reagan for agreeing to supply materials for UK nuclear weapon programme) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 103") [weekly survey note; Glasgow Hillhead by-election] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Trident, Budget, Economy, Industry) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT message to Reagan (Trident nuclear deterrent) [thanks to US Administration for helping to make agreement possible] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Reagan (Trident nuclear deterrent) [formal request for US to supply UK with Trident II missles] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Reagan letter to MT (US will supply UK with Trident II missiles) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Trident, Budget, Economy, Trade Unions, Pay) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA)/(Thatcher MSS) US: Reagan message to MT (Trident II Sale) [Reagan regrets embarrassment caused by "premature press reports concerning my visit to London"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Hillhead Election, Budget, Politics, Defence) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Gow note to MT ("Captain John Moore, R.N. (Retired)") [Moore delivers letters on the navy to Gow, highly critical of "grievous lack of leadership"; Admiral Leach's support for Fieldhouse rather than Eberle as his successor] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Falklands, Cable TV, Northern Ireland, Thorn) [had approached Argentinians to express concern at landing on South Georgia; understood that they had now left] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Law & Order; Other Crime; London Transport ... Falkland Islands) ["FT says 50 scrap metal merchants land and hoist Argentine flag; Guardian sees it as a comic opera episode but we haven't heard the last of it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (meeting of ministers, Algerian MPs, Indo-British Association) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Coles minute to MT ("Nato Summit") [arrangements for NATO summit in Bonn] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Science in India exhibition, press notices, EC briefing, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], EC mandate, Reagan visit) [plus copy of Luce statement in Commons] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hillhead [by-election]; Law & Order; Education; Economy ... Falklands) ["We send a gunboat - Endurance which sets off argument as to whether Endurance should be scrapped; D/Star says clear off Argentina"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (meeting of ministers, Queen's awards, law and order, NCB, Hillhead by-election) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Easter Recess; Northern Ireland; Defence - Trident, Defence - Endurance, Defence - Rhine Army; living standards) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Falklands/Press Office: UKE Buneos Aires telegram 104 to FCO (2005Z) ("South Georgia: Argentina Press Treatment") [illegal landing on South Georgia] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (MT's day, answers of interest, Hillhead by-election, Mitterrand) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falkland Islands, El Salvador, Law & Order, Police) ["This looks like being a foreign affairs week"; Falklands: "Most papers have confrontation stories as Argentina is reported to be sending gunboats to South Georgia"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (EEC, El Salvador, Falklands, Law & Order) [Falklands: Telegraph condemns FCO for "determination not to comment"; Sun "urges toughness in negotiations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (MT's day, Falklands statements, European Council, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], meeting with Haughey, HMS Endurance) [refused to comment on stories of a reprieve for the ship] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Falklands, European Council) [refused to discuss options or back up for HMS Endurance] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (European Council, Falklands, Economy, Industry) [Falklands: "This is the next big story - and the story is in the pops - with gunboats, including Navy oil tankers and nuke submarines heading south for a confrontation with the Argentines"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Ronald Bell, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, EC mandate) [Falklands: "Inevitably the PM was being kept in touch. ... We were seeking a diplomatic solution"; would not confirm or deny ship or submarine movements] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (India, British Rail, Falklands, European Community) [Falklands: although Carrington in Israel, still leading on this matter; MT "would continue to take a close interest"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Cabinet, meeting of ministers, Northern Ireland, Falklands, European Community) [could not confirm that submarines, nuclear or otherwise, had been despatched] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.73 ("Falkland Islands") [UK seeking a peaceful and diplomatic resolution] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing by Lord President (1515Z) (Northern Ireland, C&AG, Privatisation of ROFs, Falklands, capital punishment) [Falklands: encouraged suggestion that "Argentinians were in a certain amount of difficulty and that the issue might help them internally"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.74 ("Falklands") [UNSG's appeal; "We have used every effort to bring about a solution by diplomatic means"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Palliser minute to Armstrong ("Summit Meetings") [Pope's visit to Britain, G7, NATO, Reagan state visit] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands, Northern Ireland, industrial disputes) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.76 ("Falkland Islands: Citizenship and Radio") ["We should avoid getting into the numbers game but remind people of the Government's commitment to the Falklanders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1030Z) (Cabinet, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, FCO news conference) ["We could not confirm reports of any invasion"; MT returned from Windsor 11pm last night for meeting of ministers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO press conference (1130Z) (Falklands) [could not confirm invasion reports, but appeared imminent] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1350Z) (Falklands) ["We had no confirmation of an invasion"; "It was incorrect to say the Government was regarding the matter as a 'war situation'. We regarded it as a grave situation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.78 (1930Z) ("Falklands - Security Council") [draft British resolution and statement by British Permanent Representative] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (2000Z) (chronology) [event during the day] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (Falklands) ["We refused to play the head-hunting game or to indulge in speculation along the lines that the Falklands would be impossible to recapture and so we were talking about a naval blockade"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Falklands) ["a task force was going to sail subject to orders"] [released 2013]

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