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1983 Mar 1 - 1984 Nov 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1298
Legal procedure (United States anti-trust investigation into allegations of price fixing against British airlines, following collapse of Laker Airways) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 359
Any docs withheld? 1

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83 Feb 28 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Home Office record of conversation ("US Grand Jury Investigation of North Atlantic Air Transportation") [Whitelaw, Sir Adam Thomson: Chair of British Caledonian: request for UK Govt to intercede before US Grand Jury subpoena] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("United States Grand Jury Investigation of North Atlantic Air Transportation") [UK/US talks; UK Govt intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Legal Procedure: Chair of British Caledonian letter to MT (British Airlines: US Anti-Trust Action) [Grand Jury investigation; plea for UK Govt to take action] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 17 Th Major Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 664 to FCO (1545Z) ("British Airlines: US Anti-Trust Action") ["if anything, attitudes here have hardened"; options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 18 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS minute to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) ["could destroy British Caledonian"; UK govt representations to US; intervention by Attorney General in High Court] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 18 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Attorney General minute to MT ("British Caledonian - Anti-Trust Action by Laker Liquidation") ["[my] intervention... might make matters worse"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 23 We Major Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) ["I share your concern"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [draft MT letter of intervention to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Chair of British Caledonian letter to MT (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [plea for MT's personal intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tu Major Legal Procedure: MT message to President Reagan (1105Z) (US Department of Justice Airline Antitrust Investigation) [MT pleads for talks and warns of potential damage to US/UK relations if case proceeds] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 30 We Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS minute to No.10 ("The Laker Suit") [strategy for Govt intervention; lifting of injunction against liquidator] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 31 Th Major Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [UK countermeasures] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 31 Th Major Legal Procedure: Attorney General letter to MT ("British Airways and British Caledonian -v- Laker") [interim injunction] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 6 We Major Legal Procedure: President Reagan message to MT (White House telegram to Cabinet Office, 1656Z) (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 7 Th Major Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 886 to FCO (0100Z) ("Anti-Trust Investigation into Airline Price Fixing: President Reagan's Message") ["disappointing but not... surprising... we can now think through the various courses of action open to us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 7 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("United States Airline Antitrust Investigation") [urgent advice & draft reply following Reagan refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 5 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [international arbitration] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 26 Th Major Legal Procedure: FCO briefing for MT ("US-Anti-Trust Action Against British Airlines") [background] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 26 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [latest position & lines to take for meeting with Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 16 Th Major Legal Procedure: Tom King letter to Cecil Parkinson ("US Anti Trust Action Against British Airlines - Use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act") ["need to establish clearly the position in English law... to negotiate satisfactory future arrangements to prevent such disputes recurring"] [declassified Jan 2014]