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Falklands: State Department record of conversation (MT, Haig and others) [Haig on the Junta: "The air force is fearful, the army is moderate, and the navy wants a fight"] [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p253
Editorial comments:

The notes are dated as if covering two days of talks, but comparison with British records suggest they relate only to the very first meeting on 12 Apr. No other record has been found of these conversations on the US side, perhaps the result of exhaustion on the part of Haig's team. 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.

The British record of the meeting can be read here.

Published in 2015, but date of declassification unknown. The document may have been available for some time before inclusion in this volume.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (Falklands)