1983 Mar 29 - 1983 Oct 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1048
Grenada (US-led invasion) (Part 1)
Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
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Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
Classification: | Top Secret |
Page count: | |
Any docs withheld? | 13 |
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83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [situation in Grenada; Trudeau suggests general Commonwealth call for truce] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3130 to FCO (2319Z) ("Grenada: Secretary Shultz's Press Conference") [Shultz sets out US rationale for intervention] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 24 Mo | Key | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 22 Sa | Key | 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 25 Tu | Key | Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 25 Tu | Key | Grenada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Grenada”) [record of No.10 meetings & decisions 24-25 Oct] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 24 Mo | Key | Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [MT draft message to Reagan: "In short, I have serious doubts about mounting a military operation"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 24 Mo | Key | Grenada: Howe draft statement to House of Commons (situation in Grenada) [MT annotation: "No reason to think that military intervention is likely to take place"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 24 Mo | Key | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 26 We | Key | Grenada: Parsons minute to Coles ("Grenada") ["It is becoming increasingly obvious that [the US] had been planning the Grenada move for some time"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 25 Tu | Key | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 25 Tu | Key | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada; Reagan to MT: "We are already at zero"] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 26 We | Key | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada: Reagan said he "very much regretted the embarrassment that had been caused" to HMG] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 24 Mo | Key | Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to MODUK ("Grenada: From Col Beaumont in Bridgetown for Cossec") [details of US intervention plan] [declassified 2013] |