Tag: Ronald Reagan

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 05:28 UTC

  Former US Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale dies aged 93

  

  Former US Vice President Walter Mondale (1977-1981) has died in Minneapolis, at the age of 93, his family confirmed. No cause was given.

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 08:37 UTC

  Reagan's secretary of State, George Shultz dies at age of 100. He served in four different cabinet positions

  

  President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz, a resourceful strategist who helped dismantle the Cold War has died at the age of 100. An economics professor who saw himself more as a data-driven expert than an ideologue, Shultz had the rare distinction of serving in four different cabinet positions - including Treasury secretary with Richard Nixon.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  British forces during Falklands' war benefited from CIA Crypto AG decoded messages

  

  The Royal Navy, RAF, and British Army benefited from the CIA's secret ownership of a code-making machine company during the Falklands' War, a new investigation has claimed.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  NRA elects ex Reagan aide involved in the Iran-Contra scandal

  

  The influential US gun lobby the National Rifle Association (NRA) has elected a former aide to President Ronald Reagan as its new president. Oliver North, a retired US Marine Colonel, played a major role in the so-called Iran-Contra scandal.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 19:44 UTC

  CIA 1982 plan to hand Falklands to Argentina and relocate Islanders in Scotland

  

  The population of the Falklands Islands could have been relocated to Scotland under a secret CIA plan, it has been revealed. United States planned to step in and hand the Islands to Argentina following the 1982 invasion, according to briefings rescued from the trove of 12 million documents published by the CIA on its website and discovered by the British media.

• Tuesday, November 11th 2014 - 04:38 UTC

  Released documents: Reagan's apologies to Thatcher over the invasion of Grenada

  

  A recorded conversation between an apologetic Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher over the invasion of Grenada has been published for the first time. Baroness Thatcher was angered that she was not consulted before the US invaded a Commonwealth state.

• Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Falklands' war Regan/Thatcher fake tape had CIA and MI6 in disarray for months

  

  A fake tape of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher arguing over the Falklands War had the British secret services scrambling to identify the culprits, archive files released Friday showed. The tape, supposedly a telephone recording of then US president Reagan and the British prime minister, was anonymously sent to several Dutch newspapers during the 1983 UK general election.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  Release of Margaret Thatcher personal papers of 1983

  

  Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1983 papers were opened at the Churchill College Archives Centre (Cambridge) and online on the website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation in October 2013.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Thatcher’s death: Latam leaders send condolence messages but not a word from Argentina

  

  The death of Baroness Thatcher, Prime Minister when the recovery of the Falklands by a British Task Force did not inspire a single word from the Argentine government, but other Latinamerican leaders and countries sent their condolences and praised the courage and determination of the Iron Lady.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2013 - 07:17 UTC

  Margaret Thatcher, one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, said Obama

  

  President Barack Obama has said that with the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty and the US a true friend.