1983 Mar 29 - 1983 Oct 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1048
Grenada (US-led invasion) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | |
| Any docs withheld? | 13 |
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Showing items 41 - 54 of 54
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3115 to FCO (1657Z) ("Grenada") [US and Caribbean forces secure airport; Governor General missing] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3118 to FCO (1709Z) ("Grenada") [Dam meets with Luce to discuss US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: FCO telegram 305 to UKHC Bridgetown (1720Z) ("Grenada") ["The PUS has telephoned to the Embassy in Washington instructing them to make it clear to the Americans...that the constitutional position of the Governor General...must (repeat must) be respected"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: FCO Sitrep ("Grenada: Sitrep No 1: 25 October 1983 (2030 hours GMT)") [landings in Grenada; Reagan's statement; position of the Governor; international reactions] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3130 to FCO (2319Z) ("Grenada: Secretary Shultz's Press Conference") [Shultz sets out US rationale for intervention] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3134 to FCO (0430Z) ("Grenada: Debate in the House") [US Administration "will not understand it if we publicly criticise their actions while their troops are still engaged"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3135 to FCO (0435Z) ("Grenada") ["The fact is that feelings are very sore on both sides. But this is now part of history"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Adams of Barbados) [US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Grenada: UKE Kingston to FCO ("Grenada") [Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica angry at MT's comments in debate on Grenada operation] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Key | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada: Reagan said he "very much regretted the embarrassment that had been caused" to HMG] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Key | Grenada: Parsons minute to Coles ("Grenada") ["It is becoming increasingly obvious that [the US] had been planning the Grenada move for some time"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Grenada: UKE Paris to FCO ("Grenada") [Howe meets with Schultz: Shultz reports that Cuban presence on Grenada "turned out to be larger and more ominous than the US had estimated"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [situation in Grenada; Trudeau suggests general Commonwealth call for truce] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [declassified 2013] |