Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (2000Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Nott) ["it was decided that authority should be given to the SSNs to attack any Argentine naval warships which entered the Maritime Exclusion Zone"] [declassified 2012]

2000-2200Z. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

There is a brief FCO record of the ROE decision which offers a little more detail, defining precisely the ROE and the restrictive amendments made to it. The FCO timed the decision as 2200Z (ie, 2300 BST), minutes before MT left for Chequers.

Copied to DEFE13/1535 f164.