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1979 Jun 7 - 1983 Jul 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1150
USA (Visits by Senator Jesse Helms and John Carbaugh; discussion of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe sanctions and US political matters)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 97
Any docs withheld? 1

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79 Jun 7 Th Major USA: UKE Washington telegram 1396 to FCO (2305Z) ("Rhodesia: Presidential Determination") [text of statement by President Carter outlining his reasons for being unwilling to lift sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jun 14 Th Major USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jun 18 Mo Major USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Senator Helms' request for a private meeting with MT, ostensibly on the authority of President Carter] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jun 29 Fr Major USA: UKE Washington telegram 1740 to FCO (0420Z) ("Rhodesia") [lifting of sanctions] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jul 3 Tu Major USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Senator Jesse Helms on the Prime Minister, Wednesday 4 July") [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jul 4 We Major USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jesse Helms, John Carbaugh) [Rhodesia; SALT II Treaty] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jul 5 Th Major USA: John Carbaugh letter to MT (Meeting with Senator Helms) [Helms' assistant conveys thanks to MT for meeting with Helms; Rhodesia; Salt II; request that MT meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jul 5 Th Major USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms and Mr. Carbaugh") [MT concurs with Helms that US oral assurance over SALT II are insufficient; unwilling to take up his proposal to meet with US journalist Rowland Evans] [released Aug 2013]
79 Jul 13 Fr Major USA: No.10 minute to MT ("Senator Helms") [MT agrees to details of her recent conversation being shared with UK Ambassador Henderson, following divulgence of details to US press, despite No. 10 requests to FCO for confidentiality] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 12 We Major USA: Senator Jesse Helms letter to MT (Rhodesia) [stresses urgency of need for sanctions to be lifted if Muzorewa Government is not to fall] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 13 Th Major USA: Caroline Stephens note to Michael Alexander (John Carbaugh, Assistant to Senator Jesse Helm: request for meeting with the Prime Minister) ["will not take no for an answer"] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 14 Fr Minor USA: No.10 minute to MT (No.10 meeting with assistants to Senator Jesse Helms) [MT agrees record of meeting be copied to Lord Carrington] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 14 Fr Major USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Note of a Discussion with Dr J Lucier and Mr J Carbaugh (Assistants to Senator Jesse Helms) on 14 September at 1100 hours at No. 10") [Michael Alexander, Lucier, Carbaugh: Rhodesia; Chile; Cuba/Salt II] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 20 Th Major USA: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Ambassador Brewster) [Rhodesia] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 21 Fr Major USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to FCO Permanent Under Secretary of State PS ("Rhodesia: Senator Helms' Staff") [agreement of press statement, and UK concerns addressed, following US press leak] [released Aug 2013]
79 Sep 21 Fr Major USA: FCO Rhodesia Department minute to PUS PS ("Rhodesia: Consultation with the Americans") [background to a US press report of an alleged UK Government complaint about the activities of Senator Helms' staffers] [released Aug 2013]
79 Oct 9 Tu Major USA: UKE Washington letter to No.10 (background to Senator Helms' alleged intervention in the Rhodesia conference) [character analysis] [released Aug 2013]
79 Oct 9 Tu Major USA: MT letter to Senator Helms (Rhodesia Conference) [outline of UK position] [released Aug 2013]
80 Apr 24 Th Major USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Conversation with Mr. Carbaugh at 10 Downing Street on Thursday 24 April 1980") [Michael Alexander, John Carbaugh: US defence policy; request that MT make case in Parliament for increased defence expenditure; Rapier programme; Republican nominee: request that MT meet with Reagan to support his campaign; funds for Reagan campaign; Namibia] [released Aug 2013]
80 May 19 Mo Major USA: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1400Z) ("Contacts with Mr Reagan's Advisers") [John Carbaugh, aide to Senator Helms: request for channel of communication to No.10] [released Aug 2013]