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PREM19/872
Poland (Internal situation; state of emergency - martial law; possible measures to be taken against Poland and Soviet Union) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 230
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81 Dec 29 Tue Poland: UKE Washington telegram 3950 to FCO (2200Z) (“Poland: US measures against the Soviet Union”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 4 Mon Poland: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO (“Informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Ten, Brussels 4 January 1982”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 6 Wed Poland: UKE Washington telegram 37 to FCO (0056Z) (“Schmidt/Reagan meeting: Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 6 Wed Poland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“French policy towards Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 6 Wed Poland: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Poland: FRG policy”) [West German reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 6 Wed Poland: FCO briefing for MT (“Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 6 Wed Poland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: UKE Washington telegram 42 to FCO (0449Z) (“Poland”) [US stance on imposition of martial law in Poland] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Polish situation”) [Jaruzelski letter to MT and other heads of state] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Polish situation”) [analysis following imposition of martial law] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: No.10 letter to Walker PS (“Poland”) [martial law: trade sanctions against Soviet fishing vessels] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Howe, Jenkin, Biffen, Robert Wade-Gery) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 7 Thu Poland: UKE Washington telegram 41 to FCO (0130Z) (“US measures against the Soviet Union”) [reaction to imposition of martial law in Poland] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 8 Fri Poland: MT letter to Reagan (situation in Poland and EC position on sanctions) [Poland "a blatant example of the failure of the Soviet system and Soviet ideas"] [released 2013]
82 Jan 8 Fri Poland: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Poland”: forthcoming meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers) [Greek reaction to martial law in Poland] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 8 Fri Poland: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“Western acceptance of Solidarity detainees”) [imposition of martial law in Poland] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 8 Fri Poland: MT letter to US President (Reagan messages to Jaruzelski and Brezhnev on martial law in Poland) [MT on draft reply to Reagan: “much too turgid. I am not happy with our reactions so far…”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 10 Sun Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Polish situation”) [press statement on state of economy] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 11 Mon Poland: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“NATO Ministerial meeting: Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 13 Wed Poland: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Poland”) [NATO reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]