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1981 May 1 - 1981 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/531
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 340
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81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: further details] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 13 Sa Major Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Israeli Attack On Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: response to FCO questions about Israeli account of attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Israeli Attack on Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: meeting of the Ten to clarify details of attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 9 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Cairo to FCO ("Israeli Raid") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Egyptian government condemns attack] [declassified 2011]
81 May 29 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Cairo to FCO ("Sadat/Begin Meeting") ["This announcement has surprised everyone here, including the US Embassy"] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 18 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Cairo to FCO ("Visit of Secretary of State for Defence: Meeting with President Sadat") [Arab-Israeli conflict: Nott-Sadat meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 5 Su Major Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with French and German Foreign Ministers on 5 July: Middle East") [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Talks with Gromyko 6 July: Middle East") [Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2011]
81 May 4 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Rome to FCO ("Libya") [account of quadripartite Ministerial dinner in Rome, 3 May: concerns about Gaddhafi] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 5 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Begin/Sadat Meeting") ["Begin...was clearly delighted by this meeting"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 8 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel Attack on Iraq") [attack on Osirak nuclear installation: "Until the Americans put a stop to this...any Israeli Prime Minister will believe he can repeat such operations with impunity"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 4 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Europe") [Begin attacks Schmidt and Giscard at Herut party meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 15 Mo Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Iraq") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Israeli justification for attack questioned] [declassified 2011]
81 May 1 Fr Major Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO ("Israel/Lebanon") ["Seen from here, the events of the last week can only be explained on the basis of an irresponsible failure by the Americans...to make clear to the Israelis where US limits lie"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 7 Tu Major Middle East: Winston Churchill MP letter to MT (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq) [concerns at Iraqi ambitions "to become a nuclear weapons power"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 9 Tu Major Middle East: Winston Churchill MP letter to MT (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation) [criticises MT's position on Israeli attack] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Middle East: Yitzhak Shamir letter to Carrington (Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation) ["the decision which my government took in self-defence was...one from which...we could not shrink"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 23 Th Major Middle East: FCO telegram 1122 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("US-Arab Relations") [Hurd meets with Minister at US Embassy to discuss his visits to Iraq and Jordan] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 17 We Major Middle East: FCO telegram 315 to UKMIS New York (1615Z) ("Israel/Iraq in the Security Council") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: Iraqi draft resolution, instructions to Parsons] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Middle East: UKE Washington teelgram 1831 to FCO (0040Z) ("Lord Privy Seal's Meeting with the US Secretary of Defense") [Gilmour-Weinberger meeting: Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq] [declassified 2011]