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Falklands: State Department paper for Haig (2315Z) ("Talking Points - Thatcher") ["brutally frank with Galtieri ... (h)e is not committed to fight - though the Navy is itching for battle"] [published 2015; released Mar 1993]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p200
Editorial comments:

2015 Buenos Aires = 2315Z. Excerpt from Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015). Other documents from this volume can be seen here. Read the whole volume. Published in 2015, but a copy was available publicly in the Haig MSS Box 200 Folder 2 as early as March 1993.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands)