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Franks Report files

Falklands: Falkland Islands Review Committee minutes ("FIRC 4th Meeting Minutes") [Introductory remarks; minutes; documentation; correspondence; written evidence; oral evidence; discussion of events in 1981 and 1982; review of the MOD papers; next meeting] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: Old Admiralty Building, Whitehall
Source: CAB292/6 f1
Editorial comments:

The meeting ran over two days; listed by earliest day. Supporting documents follow, but they do not include the papers circulated to this meeting by the chairman and other committee members, which seem not to survive. The full file is included in this item. All documents from the archive of the Franks Inquiry can be read here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 26pp
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence, British Constitution (general discussions), Executive, Executive (appointments), Leadership