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 |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
Classification: | Top Secret |
Page count: | 308 |
Any docs withheld? |
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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] |
83 Apr 22 Fr | Major | Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") [phasing out of British Military Advisory & Training Team presence] [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 Mar 30 We | Major | Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Zimbabwe: Mr Nkomo") [permission to remain in UK] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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 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] |
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 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] |
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 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 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 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] |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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] |