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PREM19/1166
Angola (Internal situation; appointment of Jose Eduardo dos Santos as President; UK/Angolan relations) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 291
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81 Aug 13 Th Major Angola: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Angola") [policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 13 Th Major 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]
81 Aug 13 Th Major Angola: FCO telegram 1212 to UKE Washington (1703Z) ("Angola") ["scarcely veiled threats of American withdrawal... somewhat ill-judged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 14 Fr Major 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]
81 Aug 15 Sa Major Angola: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Angola") [analysis of S. African position on Cuban withdrawal] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 17 Mo Major 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]
81 Aug 17 Mo Major 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]
81 Aug 17 Mo Major 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]
81 Aug 18 Tu Major 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]
81 Aug 19 We Major Angola: FCO telegram to UKE Luanda ("US/Angola/Cuba") [US/Angolan talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 21 Fr Major Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2486 to FCO (2329Z) ("Angola") [Portugese diplomatic efforts] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 22 Sa Major 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]
81 Aug 25 Tu Major Angola: UKE Washington telegram 2506 to FCO (2205Z) ("Angola/South Africa") [US reaction to news of S.African incursion] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 25 Tu Major 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]
81 Aug 26 We Major 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]
81 Aug 26 We Major Angola: UKE Pretoria telegram to MODUK ("SADF operations in Angola") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 26 We Major Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("Angola/South African incursion") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Aug 26 We Major 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]
81 Aug 26 We Major 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]
81 Aug 26 We Major 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]