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Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Chief of Defence Staff ("Falkland Islands - the media") ["I think we are losing ground. We need to regain it and be more positive and respond more quickly"] [declassified Oct 2019]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE23/231 f269
Editorial comments:

Sir Frank Cooper was the Permanent Under Secretary of State at the MOD, the head of its civil service component.

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Copied to DEFE68/671 f70, an ACDS(Ops) file where Brown marked paragraph 4d "by whom? to be resolved by whom?" and underlined the last sentence of paragraph e. He added a note that his comments should be put to DS11, with the comment "Who answers my questions???"

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Media, Executive, Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands)