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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3076
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 23)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 349
Any docs withheld? 15

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90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (“Minister (DP's) visit to the Gulf”) [MT's instructions for Clark's flying visit to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT wants minister to visit smaller Gulf states immediately] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 (“The Brutality of the Iraqi Regime under Saddam Hussein”) ["material for propaganda against Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: Transport Minister Roger Freeman letter to FCO (“Aviation Security”) [precautionary actions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Croskery”) [Iraqi military apparently cooperating in search for body of British national they shot] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Bahrain telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Bahrain”) [Alan Clark conversation with Amir & Crown Prince, demanding some British deployment] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO (“Rules of Engagement”) [RAF Air Vice Marshal recommends accepting US/Saudi ROE] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO (“Political situation in Jordan”) ["The King's attempt to balance support for Saddam against his UN obligations is not sustainable for very long"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell calls General Scowcroft) ["to convey our concern about the use of the port of Aqaba to evade sanctions against Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian response to Gulf crisis”) [despatch of two frigates and a supply ship] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: Charles Powell minute to Private Office colleagues (handling Gulf business in his absence) [JIC morning briefing to be faxed to MT c1030; Waldegrave chairs coordination meeting at 1100] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT 'incensed' by "the slur carried by the BBC World Service", that UK diplomats in Kuwait fled before the invasion; FCO should demand apology] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Press Pools”) [MT agrees to allow occasional small press pools to visit UK forces in Gulf, provided under better control than during the Falklands] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (dispute over Tornado Rules of Engagement) [MT hopes it will be resolved tomorrow so aircraft can patrol; would be damaging if it became public] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (dispute over Tornado Rules of Engagement) ["acute dilemma" over Saudi ROEs] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: British Defence Staff Washington telegram to MOD (0044Z) (“Arms sales to Saudi Arabia”) [conversation with Prince Bandar] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Exfiltration from Kuwait”) [two British journalists reached Riyadh, crossed from Kuwait last night] [unclassified; released Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1828 to FCO (0115Z) (“Bush Press Conference”) [forthcoming visit to Washington by King Hussein] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: FCO telegram 1419 to UKE Washington (2030Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait/Jordan”) [points for US to make to King Hussein on Aqaba and sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tue Gulf War: FCO internal minute (“Examples of Iraqi Brutality, 1968-1990") [list from sources to hand, not secret; "far from exhaustive"] [declassified Jul 2017]