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1981 Aug 12 - 1981 Dec 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/561
Poland (Internal situation; economic assistance to Poland; state of emergency - martial law, December 1981) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 279
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81 Dec 4 Fri Poland: MT letter to TUC General Secretary Len Murray (economic and food assistance for Poland) [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 10 Thu Poland: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Quadripartite Dinner 9 December: Poland") [French, US, German and British views on Poland and Eastern Europe] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 13 Sun Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland: Internal Situation") [state of emergency: Mazowsze Solidarity headquarters building raided by Polish authorities: "a carefully planned swoop on the Solidarity leadership"] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 13 Sun Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland: Internal Situation") [state of emergency declared] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 13 Sun Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Internal Situation") [state of emergency declared: UK Ambassador meets with Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Olechowski] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 13 Sun Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland: The State of Emergency") [assessment of reasons for declaration of state of emergency] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 14 Mon Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland: The State of Emergency") ["Although the ruling military council have now assumed sweeping powers, they do not seem to be enforcing them in any systematic or authoritarian way"] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 14 Mon Poland: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Poland") [Soviet involvement in, and response to, Polish declaration of state of emergency] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 14 Mon Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") ["bitty" and "subjective" account of imposition of state of emergency] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 15 Tue Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") [update on state of emergency] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 16 Wed Poland: UKE Washington telegram 3818 to FCO (2100Z) ("Poland") [Henderson speaks with Stoessel about US response to Polish state of emergency] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 17 Thu Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland: Internal Situation") [UK Ambassador to Poland calls on Deputy Foreign Minister Olechowski to discuss state of emergency: first deaths] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 18 Fri Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland - Internal Situation") [state of emergency: "Eye witnesses have reported a major incident between the population and the police in the middle of Warsaw this afternoon"] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 18 Fri Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Poland: Walesa's Appeal") [Lech Walesa issues underground appeal requesting that food aid continues but financial assistance to Poland should cease] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 18 Fri Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Polish Crisis") [state of emergency: "You may find it helpful to have a brief review of how the situation looks from this end"] [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 18 Fri Poland: Carrington minute to all members of Cabinet and OD Committee ("Poland") [state of emergency: assessment of the situation so far] [declassified 2011]