Foreign and Commonwealth Office Files Released

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Files Released

Today we have released FCO files relating to a British Airways flight (BA149) which landed in Kuwait City in the early hours of 2 August 1990, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began.

All the files have been digitised and can be found at the following links:

FCO 8/7725 – Kuwait/Iraq

FCO 8/7876 – BA 149

FCO 8/7877 – BA 149

FCO 8/8088 – Iraqi Relations with Kuwait

FCO 8/8695 – Int. Civil Aviation

FCO 8/8696 – Kuwait and Int. Civil Aviation

FCO 8/9095 – Iraq/France

FCO 8/9637 – BA 149: Aircraft stranded in Kuwait

FCO 8/9762 – British Airways Flight 149: Held in Kuwait during Iraqi Invasion

FCO 8/9763 – British Airways Flight 149

FCO 8/9764 – Iraq: Legal Cases: BA 149

FCO 8/10234 – Iraq: Law Suits/Manama Holdings v Michael Freeman

FCO 47/1842 – Contingency Planning for Kuwait

FCO 47/1843 – Civil Contingency Planning for Kuwait

FCO 49/1226 – Iraq/Kuwait

FCO 49/1227 – Iraq/Kuwait

FCO 49/1228 – Iraq/Kuwait (including Gulf Crisis)

FCO 49/1229 – Iraq/Kuwait (including Gulf Crisis)

FCO 49/1230 – Iraq/Kuwait (Parliamentary Debate)

FCO 72/202 – Foreign Affairs Committee: Iraq/Kuwait

FCO 72/203 – Foreign Affairs Committee: Iraq/Kuwait

FCO 76/2800 – Flight BA 149

FCO 76/2801 – UK/Iraq Air Services BA 149 (Including Iraqi Airways Debts)

FCO 76/2802 – British Airways (including BA 149)

FCO 76/2803 – Flight BA 149 (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)

FCO 76/2804 – Claims Arising from Flight BA 149 to Kuwait, 2 August 1990

FCO 76/2805 – Aviation Security Emergency Information to Airlines

FCO 76/2806 – Aviation Security Emergency Information to Airlines

FCO 178/1438 – Iraq/Kuwait Crisis: possible terrorist threat

FCO 188/1 – BA Flight 149

FCO 188/2 – Letter from Members of Parliament

FCO 188/3 – BA Flight 149

FCO 188/4 – FOI Norman Baker

The files can be searched using our catalogue, Discovery.