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1983 Mar 29 - 1983 Oct 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1048
Grenada (US-led invasion) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 0
Any docs withheld? 13

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83 Apr 21 Thu Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General forwards letter from Government of Grenada asking for assistance "in the prevention of aggression by the United States against Grenada"] [declassified 2013]
83 May 5 Thu Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General's circulated letter regarding supposed US aggression toward Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fri Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [situation in Grenada; plot to kill Prime Minister Bishop] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 20 Thu Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: Regional Reactions") [reactions to death of Maurice Bishop] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: FCO to UK High Commission Bridgetown ("Grenada") [seeks information on possibility of negotiated solution to situation which does not involve military operations] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Meeting with George Price") [Belize asked to contribute to OECS/CARICOM force] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3078 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3084 to FCO (2150Z) ("Grenada") ["Admiral Howe told head of Chancery this afternoon that the conclusion of the NSC meeting was that the U.S. should proceed very cautiously"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [assessment of positions of "ruling few" within Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT ("Situation in Grenada as at 1730 hours") [indication that "OECS Heads of Government have agreed to send a united military force to Grenada"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Luce, MT-Whitelaw, MT-Heseltine) [response to proposals by CARICOM states for intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Meeting with George Price") [Belize asked to contribute to OECS/CARICOM force] [released 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3076 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [released 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: FCO to UK High Commission Bridgetown ("Grenada") [seeks information on possibility of negotiated solution to situation which does not involve military operations] [released 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3084 to FCO (2150Z) ("Grenada") ["Admiral Howe told head of Chancery this afternoon that the conclusion of the NSC meeting was that the U.S. should proceed very cautiously"] [released 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sat Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [assessment of positions of "ruling few" within Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 23 Sun Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [Prime Minister Adams of Barbados reports to Bullard on thinking of CARICOM governments] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 23 Sun Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3087 to FCO (2125Z) ("Grenada") [report on further interagency meeting in Washington: "No decisions have been taken on further action"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mon Grenada: FCO telegram 1759 to UKE Washington (1350Z) ("Grenada") ["I and my colleagues see no grounds on which military intervention could be justified internationally unless it were required to protect lives"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mon Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [text of OECS statement: "The Authority of the OECS wishes to establish a peace keeping force...to restore on Grenada conditions of tranquility"] [declassified 2013]