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1990 Aug 13 - 1990 Aug 19
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 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO (“Jordan and sanctions”) [aside from export licenses, none yet being applied by Jordan to Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tu Major 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 16 Th Major Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO (“British Community in Kuwait”) [fears they will be used as human shields for industrial/military sites in Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 18 Sa Major Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO (“Internment”) [Iraqi speaker says nationals of Western countries intending aggression against Iraq are to be interned] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 16 Th Major Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO (“Possible detention of British community in Kuwait”) [40 civilian buses concentrated at Baghdad Central Railway Station this evening] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tu Major 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 16 Th Major Gulf War: UKE Doha telegram to FCO (“Visit of Minister for Defence Procurement: 15-16 August”) ["Objectives achieved. Much reassured by Minister's visit as personal emissary"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tu Major 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 18 Sa Major Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Foreign Communities”) [British detainees moved to a military installation] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 19 Su Major Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Foreign Nationals in Kuwait and Iraq”) [protest to Iraqi authorities] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 19 Su Major Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Foreign Nationals in Kuwait”) [list of 81 British citizens taken from hotel] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 16 Th Major Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Kuwait/Iraq: future of British Community”) [Iraqis forcing British and US nationals to central locations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Kuwait/Iraq: Sitrep 131600Z”) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: message to Gorbachev and Soviet attitude”) [no longer critical of US deployment to Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 18 Sa Major Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: statement by Soviet leadership, 17 August”) [Gorbachev's first statement on crisis, condemns Iraq and fears chain reaction] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Operation Granby”) ["D[efence] A[ttache] meeting with Admiral Lanxade - military adviser to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 14 Tu Minor 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 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [American account of Kelly visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Kuwaiti request for international assistance”) [legal basis for interdiction of shipping] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 19 Su Minor Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Saudi oil production”) [Saudis confirm wish for OPEC meeting; first public statement of Saudi intention to increase production] [declassified Jul 2017]