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1979 Aug 27 - 1979 Sep 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/81
Ireland (Northern Ireland situation) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Nov 10
Classification: Secret
Page count: 184
Any docs withheld? 3

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79 Aug 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins) [Warrenpoint ambush] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 note to Cartledge ("Irish Events") [Warrenpoint ambush: MT to write to next-of-kin of soldiers killed] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 note to Cartledge ("Irish Events: Arrangements made") [Warrenpoint ambush: Atkins to come to No.10] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2449 to FCO (1720Z) ("Death of Lord Mountbatten") [statement by House of Representatives Speaker O'Neill: "the perpetrators must be condemned in the strongest terms"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Alexander minute to Cartledge (Warrenpoint ambush: MT writing to next-of-kin) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MOD note to No.10 (Warrenpoint ambush: list of soldiers missing and believed killed) [MT: "16 letters here [to next-of-kin]...At the back are the two...which I fear may be needed before the day is out"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Anne Blair, wife of Lieutenant Colonel David Blair (Warrenpoint ambush) [MT: "On Monday, we lost our bravest and most courageous men, men who followed the superb example set by Colonel Blair"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Atkins-Gilmour-Bramall-Stowe) [response to Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Gilmour) [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten: security situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 29 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Security Cooperation") [response to Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Atkins and Pym draft paper for discussion at Cabinet ("Northern Ireland: Security") [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Cartledge minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Mountbatten: points arising from briefing by Army and RUC] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: Security (C(79) 34)") [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 30 Th Major Northern Ireland: Wade-Gery note to MT ("Northern Ireland") [disagreement between Pym and Atkins on leadership of Security Directorate: "they are understandably anxious that this morning's Cabinet should concentrate on the conclusions of their paper rather than on its details"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2515 to FCO (2350Z) ("U.S. Attitudes to Northern Ireland") [Warrenpoint ambush and murder of Lord Mountbatten: influencing US opinion] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Political Progress in Northern Ireland") [MT comment on Atkins' plan: "No - this has not even been discussed with Cabinet"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Security Directorate") [extensive comments by MT: "I find this memo somewhat confusing"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Atkins note to MT (Atkins to spend next two weeks in Northern Ireland) [follow-up to Warrenpoint ambush and Mountbatten murder: "I shall be trying to resist any other cause to come to London in order to have a solid spell moving about the Province"] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 2 Su Major Northern Ireland: Transcript of remarks by Atkins on BBC Radio 4's 'World This Weekend' ("Lord Mountbatten Killed by IRA") [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 3 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Political Progress in Northern Ireland") ["The Prime Minister has noted that she sees no possibility of opening up discussions with Mr. Lynch in the way proposed [by Atkins]"] [declassified 2009]