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)
Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
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Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
Classification: | Top Secret |
Page count: | 308 |
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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 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] |
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 1 We | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Ian Smith") [report on Cabinet meeting at which Mugabe is said to have resisted pressure to have Smith arrested following his visit to UK & public criticism of his government] [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 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] |
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 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 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 5 Mo | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [record of conversation with Mugabe: "in an angry and uncompromising mood"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Sep 12 Mo | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [release of Officer Briscoe] [declassified Aug 2013] |
82 Dec 7 Tu | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Zimbabe Air Force: torture") [General Shortis, Mugabe: record of conversation] [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 Jun 8 We | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Trial of Air Force Officers") [US Ambassador, Mugabe: record of conversation] [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] |
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 Mar 25 Fr | Major | Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Call on Mugabe: Matabeleland") [record of conversation with Mugabe] [declassified Aug 2013] |
83 Feb 19 Sa | Major | Zimbabwe: UKE Washington telegram 410 to FCO (1635Z) ("Zimbabwe") [discussions about reports of atrocities carried out by Fifth Brigade] [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] |
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] |