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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 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 Major Grenada: Text of Reagan's statement on intervention in Grenada [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada - Revolutionary Council") [personality sketches of members of the Revolutionary Military Council] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sa Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [assessment of positions of "ruling few" within Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sa Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [assessment of positions of "ruling few" within Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [Bullard speaks with Prime Minister Adams of Barbados: "He had particularly in mind an SAS operation to ensure the Governor General's safety"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 23 Su Major 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 14 Fr Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada") [situation in Grenada; plot to kill Prime Minister Bishop] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major 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]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: General Impressions") [further details of Deputy High Commissioner General Montgomery's visit to Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: Governor General") [Deputy High Commissioner General Montgomery calls on Grenada Governor General] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada: Regional Reactions") [reactions to death of Maurice Bishop] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sa Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Meeting with George Price") [Belize asked to contribute to OECS/CARICOM force] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 22 Sa Major Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Meeting with George Price") [Belize asked to contribute to OECS/CARICOM force] [released 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]
83 Oct 26 We Major 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 27 Th Major 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 24 Mo Major 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 25 Tu Major 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 Tu Major 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]