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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:
Any docs withheld? 13

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83 Oct 27 Thu Grenada: UKE Paris to FCO ("Grenada") [Howe meets with Schultz: Shultz reports that Cuban presence on Grenada "turned out to be larger and more ominous than the US had estimated"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 27 Thu 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 27 Thu Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 26 Wed 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 26 Wed 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 26 Wed Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3134 to FCO (0430Z) ("Grenada: Debate in the House") [US Administration "will not understand it if we publicly criticise their actions while their troops are still engaged"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 26 Wed Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3135 to FCO (0435Z) ("Grenada") ["The fact is that feelings are very sore on both sides. But this is now part of history"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 26 Wed Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Adams of Barbados) [US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 26 Wed Grenada: UKE Kingston to FCO ("Grenada") [Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica angry at MT's comments in debate on Grenada operation] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue 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 Tue Grenada: FCO telegram 1768 to UKE Washington (0224Z) ("Grenada") [tell "the Americans that we look to them to protect British lives and property"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Grenada: FCO to UK High Commission Bridgetown ("Grenada") ["we should not (not) wish [British personnel] to be involved in offensive operations against Grenada"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue 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 Tue Grenada: FCO telegram 1774 to UKE Washington (1620Z) ("Grenada: Conversation with Shultz") [update on situation in Grenada; Howe outlines his concerns about US intervention to Shultz] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue 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 25 Tue Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3115 to FCO (1657Z) ("Grenada") [US and Caribbean forces secure airport; Governor General missing] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Grenada: FCO telegram 305 to UKHC Bridgetown (1720Z) ("Grenada") ["The PUS has telephoned to the Embassy in Washington instructing them to make it clear to the Americans...that the constitutional position of the Governor General...must (repeat must) be respected"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3104 to FCO (0315Z) ("Grenada") [Wright passes message to Eagleburger regarding need for US to protect British lives and property] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3111 to FCO (1415Z) ("Grenada: President Reagan's Press Conference") [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 25 Tue Grenada: Text of Reagan's statement on intervention in Grenada [declassified 2013]