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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1424
Chile (UK/Chilean relations: policy on arms sales)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 328
Any docs withheld? 9

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83 Mar 23 We Major Chile: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Schweitzer) ["Call on the Prime Minister by the Chilean Foreign Minister"; Argentina; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Chile: No.10 record of conversation ("Chile") [Anthony Parsons, Alan Walters, Miguel Schweitzer Walters: Argentina; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Chile: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Professor Schweitzer, Chilean Foreign Minister") [US human rights certification of Argentina; Chile's future economic prospects/debt; Defence relations; airlinks between Falklands & Chile ] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Feb 24 Th Major Chile: FCO briefing for MT (Professor Schweitzer's request for a meeting with the Prime Minister) [former Chilean Ambassador, now Foreign Minister: MT goes against FCO advice not to meet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jan 17 Mo Major Chile: John Coles minute to MT (Hunter aircraft crash in Chile) [line to take for press; death of British flying instructor] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Sep 30 Th Major Chile: UKMIS New York telegram 1526 to FCO (0049Z) (Pym-Rojas conversation) [Argentina; trade/British military equipment; human rights/democracy] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Sep 24 Fr Major Chile: Rees minute to Cockfield ("Visit to South America 2-16 September 1982") [trade mission to Chile, Paraguay and Ecuador: human rights (Chile); Argentina; UK military hardware; UK exports; exports to UK; Falklands/UN; cooperation on industrial projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Sep 3 Fr Major Chile: Pym minute to Nott (request from the Chilean Air Force for assistance in counter-terrorism) ["may be put to uses of which we would not approve"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 7 Mo Major Chile: MT letter to Managing Director of Norton Megaw and Co. Ltd. (Export License for Machine Guns for Chile) [license granted after MT requests review of decision to refuse; "no licenses will be granted for equipment likely to be used for internal repression"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Feb 22 Mo Major Chile: MT letter to Managing Director of Norton Megaw and Co. Ltd. (Export License for Machine Guns for Chile) [reason for refusal] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Dec 22 Tu Major Chile: MT letter to General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (Chilean Minister of Labour: recent visit to UK) [trade; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Oct 19 Mo Major Chile: No.10 letter to Sir James Goldsmith (Chile's economic & social progress) [documentation provided by Chilean Minister of Mining] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Oct 13 Tu Major Chile: Chilean Ambassador Schweitzer letter to MT (birthday greetings) [support for MT's government] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Jul 23 Th Major Chile: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Arms Sales to the Middle East and Chile") [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Jul 20 Mo Major Chile: Nott letter to Carrington (sale of Vickers tanks to Chile) ["not as bad as a number of other customers to whom we are prepared to supply"] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Feb 17 Tu Major Chile: UKE Bonn Defence Sales telegram to MODUK (1545Z) ("Submarines for Chile") [cancellation of West German contract; proposal for Vickers to pick up the work] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Oct 3 Fr Major Chile: Carrington letter to General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (Claire Wilson case) [defence of Government handling of case, and of Government trade & diplomatic relations with Chile] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Oct 2 Th Major Chile: Carrington minute to MT ("Chile: Arms Sales") [Pym supports Carrington decision not to trade with Chile; MT disagrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Sep 10 We Major Chile: FCO letter to No.10 (human rights in Chile) [report] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jul 23 We Major Chile: MT letter to Neville Trotter MP (sale of defence equipment to Chile) [applications for licenses; Defence Attaché to Santiago] [declassified Dec 2014]