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Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Assistant Under-Secretary ("Falklands: news release policy") [establishes News Release Group "to decide what current operational information should be made available to the press and to FCO posts for dissemination overseas"] [declassified Oct 2019]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE23/231 f260
Editorial comments:

Sir Frank Cooper was the Permanent Under Secretary of State at the MOD, the head of its civil service component. Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Media, Defence (Falklands), Executive