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1982 Dec 1 - 1983 Oct 28
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 13 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe") [record of conversation with Cranley Onslow; key issues; biography] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe: Call on the Prime Minister by Mr Garfield Todd") [key issues; record of recent Cranley Onslow conversation with Todd; biography] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe: sale of Hunter aircraft") [decision on proceeding to be made against backdrop of imprisoned Air Force officers alleged to have been tortured] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 15 Th Major Zimbabwe: FCO record of conversation ("Record of a call on Mr Rifkind by Air Vice Marshal Slatter and Air Commodore Pile: Thursday 15 September 1983") [imprisoned airforce officers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to UKHC Harare ("AFZ officers") [Luce, Mugabe: record of conversation: media reports of UK government threats to cut aid] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 21 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to UKHC Harare ("Matabeleland") [UK response to reports of atrocities carried out by Fifth Brigade] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 29 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") ["sensitivity of the British Military Advisory and Training Team's links with 5 Brigade in view of recent media reports of atrocities"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 8 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe: British Military Advisory and Training Team") ["what action we should take and what line we should use in public if... 5 Brigade... unit committed further excesses"; MT anxious to see end of BMATT operations in Zimbabwe] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 14 Th Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe: British Military Advisory and Training Team") ["whether BMATT should continue beyond June and if so with what role"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 5 Tu Major Zimbabwe: Heseltine minute to MT ("Zimbabwe: British Military Advisory and Training Team") [revised role & proposal to train further personnel from controversial 5 Brigade; MT notes concerns] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 27 Th Major Zimbabwe: Howe minute to MT ("Sale of RAF Hunters to Zimbabwe") [counter-argument for proceeding with sale despite Heseltine concern in his minute to MT regarding "clear moral and presentational difficulties... at a time when ex-RAF officers are being monstrously treated in that country"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 23 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Howe minute to MT ("Visit to Washington: Zimbabwe") [UK/US policies diverging over response to imprisonment of air force officers; MT opposed to Howe advice to raise issue with Reagan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 25 Th Major Zimbabwe: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe: Air Force Officers' Trial") ["verdict is now expected on 31 August... As part of our contingency planning... two possible alternative texts for a message"; MT requests redrafts] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe: Air Force Officers' Trial") [report on proceedings; advice on handling of the situation] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Zimbabwe: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (concerns regarding situation in Zimbabwe) [response to submission of a 24-point memorandum: "Following... [our] meeting I have... written to you twice and to Mr. [Denis] Walker once. I do not have anything further to add now"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 26 Th Major Zimbabwe: MT letter to Prime Minister Mugabe (London stopover) [conveys her regrets at not being able to meet; Zimbabwe Air Force officers trial] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 31 Fr Major Zimbabwe: MT letter to Prime Minister Mugabe (relations with UK) [Air Force Officers trial; British Military & Advisory Training Team; sale of Hunter aircraft] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 31 We Major Zimbabwe: MT message to Prime Minister Mugabe ("AFZ officers") ["the verdict of the court should be accepted and... the officers should now be released"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Lord Goodman (Thames Television 'TV Eye' programme on trial of RAF officers) ["We can now only hope that the repercussions are not damaging"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 15 Fr Major Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Zimbabwe") [employment of British aid to forestall risk of widespread starvation; British Military Advisory & Training Team] [declassified Aug 2013]