Copies were leaked to the press via a Dutch news agency during the 1983 general election campaign. The U.S. State Department and British government believed the tape to be propaganda produced by the KGB (as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Sunday Times ). Although the tape was produced anonymously, The Observer linked the tape with the band. Previously classified government documents made public in January 2014 under the UK’s thirty-year rule reveal that Thatcher was aware of the tape and had discussed it with her cabinet.
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