Falklands: Havers minute to MT (Argentine aircraft carrier) [Havers advises on legality of proposed attack: "[Carrier] must...have approached our forces in such circumstances as to make her a threat and therefore a legitimate target"] [declassified 2012]

The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

Copied without annotation to FCO7/4610 f76 where it was sent to Pym, Acland, Wright, Giffard, Gillmore, Weston and Freeland.

Copied to Nott's Private Office file with note that change from 47 to 44 degrees had been passed to the MOD by the Attorney-General's Office, otherwise unannotated: DEFE13/1629 f11.