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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]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/647 f129
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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.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Defence (Falklands)