1990 Sep 1 - 1990 Sep 16
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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Showing items 81 - 94 of 94
| Date |
Value |
Title |
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| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Major | Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary, Sultan of Oman) [Gulf crisis: recent developments] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Major | Gulf War: FCO minute to Department of Transport ("BA Aircraft at Kuwait Airport") [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Major | Gulf War: Department of Transport minute to Ministry of Defence ("US Requirement for Roll On/Roll Off Ships") [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Major | 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 Mo | Major | 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 Mo | Major | 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 Mo | Major | Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Meeting of Ministers") [Diplomatic, Military, Oil] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 3 Mo | Major | 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 Tu | Major | Gulf War: MODUK telegram to Army Intelligence units ("Iraq Crisis") [precise identification of Iraqi formations in Kuwait and southern Iraq presents problems] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 6 Th | Major | Gulf War: MODUK telegram to Army Intelligence units (Operation Granby: political situation, intelligence, military operations) [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 5 We | Major | Gulf War: MODUK telegram to Army Intelligence units (Operation Granby: political situation, military operations, embargo surveillance) [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Sep 5 We | Major | Gulf War: US Secretary of State James Baker Foreign Affairs remarks to House Foreign Affairs Committee ("Isolation of Iraq only way to end the crisis peacefully") |
| 90 Sep 6 Th | Major | Gulf War: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [MT increasingly certain Saddam would not leave Kuwait "unless thrown out"; Hurd "more inclined to see a chance that sanctions would succeed"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 90 Sep 6 Th | Minor | Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell (Deputy Foreign Minister of Tunis visit to London) [declassified Dec 2016] |