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1981 Dec 19 - 1982 Jan 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/871
Poland (Internal situation; state of emergency - martial law) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 305
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82 Jan 5 Tu Major Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Jamming of BBC Polish Broadcasts") [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 24 Th Major Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland") [developments in Poland and Western responses] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 31 Th Major Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland") [situation in Poland; Western response; forthcoming meeting of EC Foreign Ministers] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 24 Th Major Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland: Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Ten, 30 December") [draft press line in response to Reagan's speech] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 30 We Major Poland: FCO to UKDEL NATO ("US Sanctions Against the Soviet Union") [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 31 Th Major Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Informal Meeting of Political and Economics Directors on Poland - Economic Subjects") [report on meeting] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 30 We Major Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Poland: Informal Meeting of Political and Economic Directors of the Ten, 30 December") [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 29 Tu Major Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Poland: Meeting of Foreign Ministers") [invitation to and arrangements for meeting] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 29 Tu Major Poland: Haig letter to Carrington (US sanctions against the USSR) [Haig urges UK and EC to take similar steps; text of Brezhnev's response to Reagan's letter] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 19 Sa Major Poland: Haig message to Carrington (situation in Poland) [Haig argues for need to pressure Jaruzelski "to make some move toward reconciliation with the Church and Solidarity" and warn the USSR against military intervention] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 23 We Major Poland: Miskew message to MT (request for assistance) ["Please help me obtain release of my son Greg from Polish authorities"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 22 Tu Major Poland: MT letter to Reagan (situation in Poland) ["It is essential that the Western response should be both firm and coordinated"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 29 Tu Major Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) ["Poland": Haig's message to Carrington; US sanctions against the USSR; need for meeting of the Ten] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 27 Su Major Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) [situation in Poland: the French refuse to attend coordination meeting so as to avoid "row with the Germans"; MT wants news of French obstructionism leaked; MT on Polish leadership: "the tyrants are the same these days, well the Communists and Fascists were the same"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 20 Su Major Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) [situation in Poland; discussions with the US; MT: "[Reagan's message] was so vague I didn't think it was worth reading last night when it came in about half eleven"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 30 We Major Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) [situation in Poland; possibility of coordinated sanctions against the USSR; MT and Carrington agree that "to take measures like those announced by President Reagan would affect the interests of British industry and Government Departments"] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 29 Tu Major Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) [situation in Poland; Reagan to announce sanctions against the USSR; Carrington attempting to arrange meeting of foreign ministers; concerns] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 24 Th Major Poland: Reagan letter to MT (situation in Poland) [Reagan's letters to Jaruzelski and Brezhnev] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 19 Sa Major Poland: Reagan message to MT (situation in Poland) [measures must be taken to put a stop to Polish military oppression and prevent possible Soviet Intervention] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 24 Th Major Poland: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Poland") [USSR response to Reagan's television message about the situation in Poland] [declassified 2012]