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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3080
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 27)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 299
Any docs withheld? 7

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90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Saudi Foreign Minister") [determination to achieve Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; bewilderment at Jordanian position; dealings with Syria, Iran] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Evacuation of Western Citizens") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("NATO Consultations on Iraq/Kuwait") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("NAC: 3 September: US Request for Sea-Lift Assistance") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Chancellor's PS letter to Charles Powell ("Secretary Brady's Visit to London") [US plans to help "front-line states"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Crown Prince of Kuwait) [invasion long planned, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states also targets; MT "grievously upset" with King Hussein; US and UK "firm and serious"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: MT letter to Earl Alexander of Tunis (meeting with the envoy of President of Tunisia) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: MT letter to Emir of Qatar (Iraq/Kuwait situation & Qatari help for British nationals) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary, Sultan of Oman) [Gulf crisis: recent developments] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: FCO minute to Department of Transport ("BA Aircraft at Kuwait Airport") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Department of Transport minute to Ministry of Defence ("US Requirement for Roll On/Roll Off Ships") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Cecil Parkinson minute for MT ("Evacuation of Women and Children from Iraq and Kuwait") ["overriding concern must be to get as many of the women and children out of Kuwait as we can as quickly as possible. ... we must accept the cost now"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("British Wives and Children in Kuwait") [attempt to get them out by bus convoy to Baghdad] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Antony Acland") [stress "the overriding importance of getting ourselves involved very early on in American thinking and planning about possible military options"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Meeting of Ministers") [Diplomatic, Military, Oil] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mon Gulf War: Attorney General's Office letter to Ministry of Defence (Iraq: legal advice on the personal position of ships' masters evading the blockade) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tue Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with the Amir of Kuwait") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tue Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: President Mitterrand's Views") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tue Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("EC Embassies in Kuwait") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tue Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Yemen") [declassified Dec 2016]