Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (0300Z) ("UK-Argentina: Argentines Await Assault") ["imminent military showdown", Junta believes "military defeat is more honorable" than a bad deal] [declassified 2007]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	CIA Records Search Tool (the "CREST database") at National Archives II in College Park
Editorial comments:	The CIA's document release programme is explained here. The "National Intelligence Daily" was a digest of intelligence in newspaper form, circulated to senior policy-makers. The "National Intelligence Daily (Cable)" had a slightly wider, but still tightly restricted, circulation. For a fuller account see this internal CIA history of "How we got into the newspaper business".
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	4pp
Themes:	Foreign policy (USA), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence