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PDF 79 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (Angolan Presidency) [MT congratulations on his election] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (Angolan Presidency) [thanks conveyed for MT congratulations on his election] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("The situation in Angola") [Professor Hugh Thomas record of conversation with Jonas Savimbi: FCO assessment of Savimbi's claims] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Apr 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Zimbabwe/Namibia: meeting with President Dos Santos") [Ambassador Byatt record of conversation: Zimbabwe; Namibia; Cuban presence in Angola] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 May 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to Brian Crozier (activities in Zaire related to Angola) [MT thanks Crozier for his report on suspected training camps for Angolan dissidents; Foreign Office sceptical of report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (South African support for UNITA) [plea for UK intercession conveyed personally by Ambassador van Dunem on visit to UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador van Dunem) ["Angolan Emissary": delivery of message from President Dos Santos concerning South African military action in Angola; British mercenary prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (Namibia) ["the British government, in association with... [our] Western partners, will continue... [our] efforts to ensure that the people of Namibia may soon become free and independent"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 922 to FCO (1604Z) ("Security Council: Angola") [Angola pressing for UN resolution as a result of South African military activities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 939 to FCO (2229Z) ("Security Council - Angola") [vote on UN resolution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("South African attacks into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Following is free translation of broadcast by Angola Radio on 20 August") [perceived Western support for Jonas Savimbi/UNITA guerrilla forces] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: visit of Savimbi") [case against MT meeting with leader of UNITA guerrilla movement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (UK/Angola relations) [goodwill message] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("SADF raid into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jun 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Portugese views on Angola") ["Perhaps the greater danger is that the Cubans, of their own volition or at Soviet instigation, refuse to comply with Angolan requests to withdraw"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Angola") [record of latest meeting of Namibia Contact Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("SADF operations on Angola/linkage") ["would be prudent to take seriously Angolan protestations... there is in my view a case for urging the Americans to persuade the SAG to [moderate pursuit operations and evacuate border areas]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/SADF") ["would be very helpful to have some guidance on the present state of our and South African knowledge of Angola's southern air defence system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2418 to FCO (2327Z) ("Angola") ["now a strong current in favour of [US] pulling out of the negotiations... unless... the other members of the Five... [associate] the Angolan and Namibian problems"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Haig letter to Lord Carrington (Namibia/Angola) ["disturbed to learn... that we do not yet have common agreement... on the relationship between Cuban withdrawal from Angola and settlement of the Namibian question"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1212 to UKE Washington (1703Z) ("Angola") ["scarcely veiled threats of American withdrawal... somewhat ill-judged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1216 to UKE Washington (1130Z) ("Angola") ["We remain much concerned by continuing indications that the Americans contemplate pulling out"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola") [analysis of S. African position on Cuban withdrawal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Cuban withdrawal: US/Angola talks") [lines to take in the event of opportunity to offer advice to US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [Cheysson message to Haig: "could be read as ruling out a common diplomatic line on the problem of Cuban withdrawal from Angola"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("Angola") [Portugal "increasingly concerned by the impassed over Namibia... believed that they now had some role to play"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("US: Angola") [visit of US Congressmen to Angola: report on talks; Ambassador Kennedy record of conversation with Minister for Petroleum, Morais] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Luanda ("US/Angola/Cuba") [US/Angolan talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2486 to FCO (2329Z) ("Angola") [Portugese diplomatic efforts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Namibia/Angola") [Pik Botha press conference: "It is the Cuban presence which is making it extremely difficult... to make progress with the negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2506 to FCO (2205Z) ("Angola/South Africa") [US reaction to news of S.African incursion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") [President Dos Santos public message to UN Sec Gen, condeming S. African attacks & mobilisation of army on Angola/Namibia border] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 763 to FCO (2300Z) ("Angola/South Africa - Security Council") ["a growing feeling here... that the Security Council is fiddling while Rome burns"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Pretoria telegram to MODUK ("SADF operations in Angola") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South African incursion") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African/Angola") [record of conversation wit Pik Botha: "in a great state... complaining that the British press were harassing him... [but] South African forces had had to go in"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African/Angola") [PW Botha statement to House of Assembly on military action in Angola] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Namibia/Angola: FRG views") ["difficult... to agree to the sort of linkage between the Namibia initiative and Cuban withdrawal from Angola that the Americans currently seemed to envisage"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Cape Town ("South Africa/Angola") [press release stating UK government reaction to "reports of the fighting in Angola"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Namibia/Angola") [Lord Carrington, Al Haig: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/Security Council") [record of conversation with Ambassador Figueiredo] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") ["I think it important that we should be seen to respond to the initiatives which the moderates take"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Havana telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa") [public statement by Castro] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Angola") ["Pik Botha... took exception to our statement yesterday... he would not accept criticism from us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: FCO telegram 1266 to UKE Washington (1155Z) ("Namibia/Angola") [report of Al Haig conversation with Pik Botha] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKMIS New York telegram 765 to FCO (0130Z) ("Angola/South Africa - Security Council") ["only difference in... [US] eyes between the two sides in this conflict is that one side is backed by the Soviet Union"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola/South Africa: Security Council") ["If we decide in the end to abstain on... a resolution which the Americans veto... you should consider a confidential personal message to Pik Botha"; MT regrets not seeing advice sooner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Lord Carrington) [UN resolution on Angola; US decision on Enhanced Radiation Warheads] [declassified Jan 2014]

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