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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 308
Any docs withheld?

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Date Valuesort descending Title
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [report on proceedings] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 21 Mo Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Matabeleland") ["The spate of attacks on whites is an ominous development bearing out white farmers fears that they would be caught in the crossfire between the dissidents and the army"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 6 Fr Major Zimbabwe: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 ("Zimbabwe: Mr Nkomo") [permission to remain in UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Air Force Officers' Trial") [private views of the defence QC] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe") [record of conversation with Cranley Onslow; key issues; biography] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 23 We Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Matabeleland") [update on reports of atrocities; Joshua Nkomo] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 1 Sa Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Kidnappings in Matabeleland") [detailed report] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 9 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("I D Smith and Anglo/Zimbabwe relations") ["Reaction to Smith's London and Washington visits is growing fiercer, and potentially dangerous. We should try to defuse it"; internal situation report] [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 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 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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
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 Mar 17 Th Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Safety of British citizens in Matabeleland") [report of abductions & murders] [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 2 We Major Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [Joshua Nkomo; dissident activity/Government countermeasures] [declassified Aug 2013]