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PDF 82 Aug 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (“SBAC Farnborough International 82 - EH101 and P110”) [joint venture with Italy, and investment in research] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [Italian position on the EH101 Helicopter and Airbus] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“The EH 101 Medium Helicopter”) [launch Aid for Westland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to Jenkin (“EH 101 Helicopter”) [launch Aid for Westland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“EH 101”) [launch Aid for Westland helicopter programme] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/Westland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT (“Events in Italy: impact on EH101 helicopter”) [fall of Fanfani government threatening the collaboration] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 83 Jun 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) India: Prime Minister Gandi of India letter to MT (India to purchase Westland Sea King and Sea Eagle helicopters) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) India: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (India to purchase Westland Sea Eagle and Sea King helicopters) [released 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: HMA Ambassdor to Italy despatch (“Italy: Annual Review for 1983”) [beginning of Craxi's premiership] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/trade: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to Italy: 1-2 October 1984”) [account of visit; market large and worth exploiting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: HMA Ambassdor to Italy despatch (“Italy: Annual Review for 1984”) [Craxi's first full year as PM - good economic record, but political costs for PSI and DC; death of PCI leader Berlinguer] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike, exchange rates, Type 22 Frigates) [Heseltine dissents from Type 22 decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) [Sikhs; Sri Lanka; Afghanistan; Gorbachev; Westland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT - General-Secretary Gorbachev) [Geneva talks & SDI; Gorbachev: “We must continue to meet and talk to one another and have exchanges of views”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell note to MT (Heseltine’s proposal for joint European response on SDI research) ["he wants [to] build up a body of opinion sceptical of SDI"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [company difficulties; Bristow bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [less sanguine than Heseltine] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 17th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal industry, Bradford stadium fire) [most confidential record discussion of RPI] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 8 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Zambian President Kaunda letter to MT (Westland helicopters;) [asks for 12, to be financed wholly by British aid: MT hopes it can be done “very quickly”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“Westlands ”) [Bristow may drop bid unless government helps more] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (“Westland”) [refusing Bristow terms, but suggests alternative to avoid company collapse, seeking urgent No.10 approval] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Treasury letter to DTI (“Westland”) [protest at DTI failure to warn Treasury in time for crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Westland chairman (DTI conversations with Bristow) [offers made to Bristow; launch aid issue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [late night crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (‘Westland’) [developments since ministerial meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (‘Westlands’) [Bristow withdrawing bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [if Bristow withdraws, encourage creditors to instal new management] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: ?No.10 PMQ briefing (Westland) [situation now Bristow bid withdrawn; line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (‘Westland’) [approach from US group; does not find American ownership welcome, but may be no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (‘Westlands’) [“Like you I do not find the prospect of foreign ownership of Westland welcome”, but alternatives to receivership still exist] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [treat as a commercial issue, in which the Government need not become involved] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (Westland) [MT notes case against Marmon takeover, but “believes that a different American offer would have to be judged on its merits”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Zambian President Kaunda (Westland) [rejects his proposal to use aid funds to sell W30 helicopters to Zambia] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [examine European solution urgently; do not rule out Sikorsky if no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Heseltine organised meeting of European NADs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [suggests meeting chaired by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Westland’) [MT thinks if Indian deal falls through “not necessarily a bad thing to allow the company to go into receivership”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Brittan (‘Westland’) [suspects European solution “may well owe more to an effort to keep Westland out of Sikorsky’s hands than to offer a lifeline to Westland”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, MacGregor, Raison] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MODUK telegram to UKE Bonn (Heseltine-Woerner conversation) [Sikorsky threat to European helicopter industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan-Sir John Cuckney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Ministry of Defence”) [unable to agree limit with Heseltine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [Heseltine sticks to his guns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Running Costs”) [“cannot accept that the Ministry of Defence should be exempt from the Cabinet decision”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary letter to Heseltine (‘Westland’) [‘disturbed’ to hear of NAD document; seeks its urgent withdrawal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [abandon NAD recommendation, which would kill Sikorsky deal] [declassified Dec 2014]

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