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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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [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: 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 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 25 Tu | Major | Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3118 to FCO (1709Z) ("Grenada") [Dam meets with Luce to discuss US intervention in 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: UKE Washington telegram 3111 to FCO (1415Z) ("Grenada: President Reagan's Press Conference") [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Major | 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 23 Su | Major | 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 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"] [released 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: 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 3076 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [released 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 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] |
| 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 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 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 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 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] |