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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1154
Zimbabwe (Internal situation; trial of air force officers on sabotage charges; sale of Hunter aircraft; British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT); status of Joshua Nkomo in UK) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 308
Any docs withheld?

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83 Jul 5 Tu Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [report on proceedings] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 5 Tu Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe: British Military Advisory and Training Team") [revised role & proposal to train further personnel from controversial 5 Brigade; MT notes concerns] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 8 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe: British Military Advisory and Training Team") ["what action we should take and what line we should use in public if... 5 Brigade... unit committed further excesses"; MT anxious to see end of BMATT operations in Zimbabwe] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [private views of the defence QC] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [report on proceedings] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Lord Goodman (Thames Television 'TV Eye' programme on trial of RAF officers) ["We can now only hope that the repercussions are not damaging"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 29 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") ["sensitivity of the British Military Advisory and Training Team's links with 5 Brigade in view of recent media reports of atrocities"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Zimbabwe: Secretary Shultz message to Howe (relationship with Zimbabwe) ["encouraged to hear that the British Government has decided to stand by its support for Zimbabwe and maintain the assistance you are giving that country"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe: Air Force Officers' Trial") [report on proceedings; advice on handling of the situation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 22 Mo Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [background] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 25 Th Major Zimbabwe: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe: Air Force Officers' Trial") ["verdict is now expected on 31 August... As part of our contingency planning... two possible alternative texts for a message"; MT requests redrafts] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 31 We Major Zimbabwe: MT message to Prime Minister Mugabe ("AFZ officers") ["the verdict of the court should be accepted and... the officers should now be released"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 1 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [press line to take in relation to MT message to Mugabe] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 5 Mo Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [record of conversation with Mugabe: "in an angry and uncompromising mood"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 8 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [release of Officers Slatter and Pile] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major Zimbabwe: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [report on Mugabe press conference] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [release of Officer Briscoe] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to UKHC Harare ("AFZ officers") [Luce, Mugabe: record of conversation: media reports of UK government threats to cut aid] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 15 Th Major Zimbabwe: FCO record of conversation ("Record of a call on Mr Rifkind by Air Vice Marshal Slatter and Air Commodore Pile: Thursday 15 September 1983") [imprisoned airforce officers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 23 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Howe minute to MT ("Visit to Washington: Zimbabwe") [UK/US policies diverging over response to imprisonment of air force officers; MT opposed to Howe advice to raise issue with Reagan] [declassified Aug 2013]