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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1154
Zimbabwe (Internal situation; trial of air force officers on sabotage charges; sale of Hunter aircraft; British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT); status of Joshua Nkomo in UK) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 308
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82 Dec 24 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Pym PS (sale of Hunter aircraft) [draft message for Cranley Onslow to deliver to Mugabe: notice of intention to proceed with sale against backdrop of human rights abuses allegations; increased role for British Military Advisory & Training Team; and Air Force Officers detention/trial] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 30 We Major Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Zimbabwe: Mr Nkomo") [permission to remain in UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Zimbabwe: No.10 minute (internal): Parson to Coles ("JIC business") [Matabeleland massacres; Joshua Nkomo; Iraq; S. Africa; Belize/Guatemala] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") [phasing out of British Military Advisory & Training Team presence] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Denis Norman) ["Zimbabwe": economy; agriculture/exports; human rights; British Military Advisory & Training Team; N. Korean influence; southern Africa; trend towards one-party state] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garfield Todd) [internal situation including unrest in Matabeleland; drought & petrol shortage; and Air Force Officers detention/trial] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Zimbabwe": Rifkind visit; sale of RAF Hunters; aid; detained Air Force officers; programme loan agreement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 14 Tu Major Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mugabe, Sir John Leahy) [Mugabe account of internal situation/comments on reports of massacres; Zimbabwe Air Force officers trial/use of torture to obtain evidence; economic performance; integration of armed forces/British training; Joshua Nkomo; Namibia; S. Africa; developing countries] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 16 Th Major Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Nott) ["Zimbabwe: sale of Hunter aircraft": human rights abuses allegations; Air Force officers trial; role of British Military Advisory & Training Group] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 7 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (relations with the UK) [Air Force officers trail; allegations of human rights abuses; British Military Advisory & Training Team; sale of Hunter aircraft] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 9 Th Major Zimbabwe: Pym minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") ["as requested... a note on policy... [including] maltreatment of detainees... military sales... wider strategic context"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Ian Smith's passport") [case for issuing passport] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 14 Mo Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Nkomo") ["The best way of avoiding a protracted stay by Mr Nkomo would be a speedy agreement to his return to Zimbabwe. The prospects at present are not good"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 7 Tu Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabe") ["you asked for more details of contacts between the High Commission in Harare and members of the Republican Front (RF) and ZAPU"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe") ["a summary of recent developments"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 21 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe") [decision on whether to process with sale of Hunter aircraft & loan of RAF personnel, following Onslow report on internal situation including ongoing detention & pending trial of Air Force officers] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th Major Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 (proposed sale of Hunter aircraft) [potential commercial & political consequences of withdrawing from deal] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 1 Mo Major Zimbabwe: Secretary Shultz message to Howe (relationship with Zimbabwe) ["encouraged to hear that the British Government has decided to stand by its support for Zimbabwe and maintain the assistance you are giving that country"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major Zimbabwe: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [report on Mugabe press conference] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 30 Fr Major Zimbabwe: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [South African views] [declassified Aug 2013]