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PDF 90 Aug 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MT letter to Amir of Kuwait (invasion) ["outrage and dismay ... doing all we can ... to reverse this monstrous act of aggression"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1911 to FCO (0248Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: US policy”) ["wide-ranging meeting with [Robert] Kimmitt"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1912 to FCO (0248Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: public comments by Administration officials”) [US making defensive deployments at Saudi request] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO & Ministry of Defence (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT asks four questions - blockade, propaganda, hot pursuit, chemical weapons] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Lord President's Office letter to Chief Whip's Office (“Recall of Parliament: Letter from Mr Wallace”) [consult Liberal Democrats in order to forestall public discussion of whether or not Parliament need be recalled] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Attorney-General's Office letter to Ministry of Defence (“Iraq/Kuwait: Oil Embargo”) [Attorney-General's advice] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: message to Gorbachev and Soviet attitude”) [no longer critical of US deployment to Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Kuwaiti request for international assistance”) [legal basis for interdiction of shipping] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MT letter to President Mubarak of Egypt (admiration & thanks) [his strength and diplomatic skills in handling the Kuwait crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (“Iraq/Kuwait: US Demarche”) [on setting up of Multinational Naval Force at Kuwaiti request] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [answers to MT questions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Dutch contribution to Gulf force”) ["Dutch government to send two frigates to Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [American account of Kelly visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO (“Jordan and sanctions”) [aside from export licenses, none yet being applied by Jordan to Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Operation Granby”) ["D[efence] A[ttache] meeting with Admiral Lanxade - military adviser to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Kuwait/Iraq: Sitrep 131600Z”) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [smaller Gulf states "a bit miffed" no British military assets offered them; send minister quickly to reassure them] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (message from Tom King) ["furious about Alan Clark going to the Gulf, thinks it all wrong and wants to talk to you urgently"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1915 to FCO (2225Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: Rules of Engagement”) [need to align British rules of engagement with Saudi/US ones] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 978 to FCO (2230Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council consultations”) ["considerable feeling ... that military action should only be taken if sanctions were shown not to work"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: British Defence Staff Washington telegram to MOD (0044Z) (“Arms sales to Saudi Arabia”) [conversation with Prince Bandar] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1828 to FCO (0115Z) (“Bush Press Conference”) [forthcoming visit to Washington by King Hussein] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram 1419 to UKE Washington (2030Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait/Jordan”) [points for US to make to King Hussein on Aqaba and sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (“Minister (DP's) visit to the Gulf”) [MT's instructions for Clark's flying visit to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT wants minister to visit smaller Gulf states immediately] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 (“The Brutality of the Iraqi Regime under Saddam Hussein”) ["material for propaganda against Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Transport Minister Roger Freeman letter to FCO (“Aviation Security”) [precautionary actions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT 'incensed' by "the slur carried by the BBC World Service", that UK diplomats in Kuwait fled before the invasion; FCO should demand apology] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Press Pools”) [MT agrees to allow occasional small press pools to visit UK forces in Gulf, provided under better control than during the Falklands] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (dispute over Tornado Rules of Engagement) [MT hopes it will be resolved tomorrow so aircraft can patrol; would be damaging if it became public] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (dispute over Tornado Rules of Engagement) ["acute dilemma" over Saudi ROEs] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO internal minute (“Examples of Iraqi Brutality, 1968-1990") [list from sources to hand, not secret; "far from exhaustive"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (Armilla patrol) ["revised concept of operations"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Amir of Bahrain letter to MT (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) ["The UK's continued support and assistance to Bahrain is most welcome and deeply appreciated at the current time"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO (“Rules of Engagement”) [RAF Air Vice Marshal recommends accepting US/Saudi ROE] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Exfiltration from Kuwait”) [two British journalists reached Riyadh, crossed from Kuwait last night] [unclassified; released Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO (“Political situation in Jordan”) ["The King's attempt to balance support for Saddam against his UN obligations is not sustainable for very long"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell calls General Scowcroft) ["to convey our concern about the use of the port of Aqaba to evade sanctions against Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian response to Gulf crisis”) [despatch of two frigates and a supply ship] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute to Private Office colleagues (handling Gulf business in his absence) [JIC morning briefing to be faxed to MT c1030; Waldegrave chairs coordination meeting at 1100] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Croskery”) [Iraqi military apparently cooperating in search for body of British national they shot] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Bahrain telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Bahrain”) [Alan Clark conversation with Amir & Crown Prince, demanding some British deployment] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") [counter-propaganda against Iraq​​​​​​​ - MT "hopes very much we can have something ready by the end of the week"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") [MT's personal interest in chasing up countries preparing to evade sanctions against Iraq - South Africa, Jordan, Hungary, Malaysia] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1930 to FCO (0120Z) (“Visit to Washington of King Hussein”) [US Administration keen to help financially, but King must show he is serious about implementing UN sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1933 to FCO (2108Z) (“Shaikh Sabah in Washington”) [expresses thanks to President; urged to maintain high profile and aid countries bearing brunt of UN sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1936 to FCO (2310Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait/Jordan”) [US receiving British views on Aqaba and King Hussein in advance of his visit to Washington] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1955 to FCO (2358Z) (“President Bush's meeting with King Hussein: 16 August”) [US encouraged, "difficulties remain but relations partly repaired"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 (“Iraq/Kuwait”) ['tolerable' BBC response to Waldegrave complaint to World Service report that UKE Kuwait evacuated key staff in early stages of invasion] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 (“Iran/Iraq: peace agreement”) ["preliminary assessment" - "no net benefit for Iraq" from 8 years of war] [declassified Jul 2017]

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