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Falklands: Special Project Group minute to CDS ("Radio Atlantico del Sur (RAdS) - Situation Report") [no feedback from prisoners; neutral observers favourable; jamming ineffectual; only station broadcasting names of Argentine captured and wounded] [declassified Oct 2019]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE23/231 f162
Editorial comments:

Radio Atlantico del Sur was a station set up by the Ministry of Defence broadcasting in Spanish to Argentine soldiers on the Falklands, using a requisitioned BBC transmitter. Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Media, Defence (Falklands)