1983 Mar 29 - 1983 Oct 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1048
Grenada (US-led invasion) (Part 1)
Document type: | File list item |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
Classification: | Top Secret |
Page count: | |
Any docs withheld? | 13 |
PREM19/1048 - download whole file (PDF, 69.75 MB)
Selections from this file
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83 May 5 Th | Major | Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General's circulated letter regarding supposed US aggression toward Grenada] [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: UKE Washington telegram 3078 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 22 Sa | Major | 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 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: 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 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 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 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 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3115 to FCO (1657Z) ("Grenada") [US and Caribbean forces secure airport; Governor General missing] [declassified 2013] |
83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | 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 26 We | Major | 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 We | Major | 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 We | Major | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Adams of Barbados) [US intervention in Grenada] [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 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 27 Th | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [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] |