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SITUATION LISTING
DATE 07/29/81//210
SITUATION:
CHECK
SUBJECT CATAGORY: LIST
MESSAGE / ANNOTATION:
MESSAGE:
HCE653
DECLASSIFIED
STU3017
00 RUEHC
NLRR 748-15-25-4-0
DE RUFHDB #2936/01 1961510
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
0 151508Z JUL 81 ZFF-4
BY (cets NARA DATE 7/7/15
FM AMEMBASSY DUBLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7058
INFO RUEHLD/AMEMBASSY LONDON 3433
ZEN/AMCONSUL BELFAST PUJCH
BT
S ECR E T SECTION 01 OF 02 DUBLIN 02936
EXDIS
NOFORN
E.O. 12065: RDS-1 7/15/01 CRUSHING, CHARLES E.) OR-M
TAGS: PEPR, PINS, PINT, EI, UK
SUBJECT: GOI APPEAL TO PRESIDENT REAGAN ON H-BLOCK ISSUE
REF: A) DUBLIN 2925; B) DUBLIN 2899
1. S-ENTIRE TEXT.
2. SUMMARY. PRIME MINISTER FITZGERALD'S DIPLOMATIC
ADVISOR TOLD US LATE JULY 14 THAT THE H-BLOCK PROBLEM,
IF NOT RESOLVED SOON, COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
NOT ONLY FOR IRELAND--NORTH AND SOUTH--BUT FOR ANGLO-
IRISH RELATIONS. HE SAID THAT THE GOI HAS DONE EVERYTHING
POSSIBLE TO CONVINCE THE UKG OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE
SITUATION AND THAT THE IRISH ARE NOW TURNING TO THE
PRESIDENT IN THE HOPE HE CAN MAKE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
THATCHER UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF THE PROBLEM. WE
BELIEVE THE GOI'S CONCERN IS COMPLETELY SINCERE BUT
CLOSELY RELATED TO ITS SHAKY HOLD ON POWER. END SUMMARY,
3, EMBOFF WAS TOLD EVENING OF JULY 14 BY MICHAEL LILLIS
(PROTECT ABSOLUTELY), DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR TO PRIME
MINISTER FITZGERALD, THAT THE GOI WOULD BE APPEALING
THAT DAY FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN'S INTERVENTION WITH BRITISH
PRIME MINISTER THATCHER ON THE H-BLOCK PROBLEM (REF-A).
STRESSING THAT HE WAS SPEAKING IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE,
LILLIS THEN OUTLINED CONSIDERATIONS WHICH PROMPTED GOI
MOVE.
4. LILLIS SAID THE GOI IS CONVINCED THE UKG COULD HAVE
RESOLVED THE ISSUE WITHOUT SACRIFICE OF PRINCIPLE IF IT
HAD RESPONDED WITH A GREATER SENSE OF URGENCY TO THE
PROPOSALS OF THE IRISH COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE.
THE GUI ALSO BELIEVES THAT EACH SUCCESSIVE HUNGER STRIKE
DEATH WILL BENEFIT ONLY THE PROVISIONAL IRA, WILL DEEPEN
SENSITIVE
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