1984 Mar 2 - 1984 Dec 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1186
Defence (Defence sales) (Part 4)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 454 |
| Any docs withheld? | 2 |
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Showing items 41 - 51 of 51
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Title |
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| 84 Jun 15 Fr | Major | Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Libya: Defence Sales") ["contracts of potential benefit to terrorists... Martello Surveillance Radars... The Lord Chancellor... thinks that we should try to get other countries to undertake not to supply the radars. Only if they refuse should the contract for Martellos be allowed to stand"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Major | Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Export credit for Pakistan") ["Given Pakistan's financial position, this proposal comes very close to aid, in military form. Pakistan is a poor risk... The prime object of exporting is to get paid, not to win prestige, or cement friendships"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 17 Mo | Major | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Prince Bandar, Stephen Egerton) [British media; MT forthcoming talks with Reagan; Arab/Israeli dispute/Middle East peace process; international financial stability; terrorism; sale of Tornado to Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Major | Defence: President Zia ul Haq letter to MT (sale of Frigates to Pakistan) ["I have asked Admiral Khan that he should, at the conclusion of the official phase of his visit, carry out detailed discussions with MOD... Several other West European shipyards have expressed a keen interest... on extremely competitive and attractive terms"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Feb 20 Mo | Major | Defence: Prime Minister González letter to MT ('RAPIER' system: British Aerospace consortium with Spanish industry) [four competing bids from UK, US, West Germany/France and Italy: "we hope to be able to make a final decision soon"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 1 We | Major | Defence: Rees minute to MT ("ECDG cover for Pakistan") [Treasury case against OD committee proposal of credit cover for sale of frigates: "on an exceptional basis and without prejudice to the Government's general policy of reducing ECGD's exposure in countries whose creditworthiness was in doubt"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 26 Th | Major | Defence: Richard Luce letter to Heseltine ("Libya: current Defence sales business") ["Marconi's contract for the sale to Libya of Martello Surveillance Radar... undertakings from France and Italy that they would not supply if we were to cancel the contract... inconclusive... [I] consider that we should place no further impediment in the way of this sale"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Major | Defence: Tebbit minute to MT ("Tornado for Turkey") ["When you meet Chancellor Kohl on Wednesday I think it would be useful if you could raise [this] with him"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Sep 26 We | Major | Defence: Tebbit minute to MT ("Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support: arguments for and against HMG support] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 3 We | Major | Defence: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Hawk Order") [press release: "an American gloss on what has properly in this country been represented as a considerable British achievement"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | Major | Defence: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Call by Prince Bandar bin Sultan on the Prime Minister") ["this meeting... could play a crucial role in recovering our chances on Tornado.... I hope that... [MT] can show... that we recognize that the main Saudi external preoccupation... [is] the Arab-Israel problem... [and the] need for the European Community to work on the Americans"] [declassified Jan 2014] |