Falklands: Jackling minute for Nott PS ("Falkland Islands") [copy of note on defence of the islands for OD which Nott approved last week, "necessarily discouraging" as to effectiveness of British action] [declassified Oct 2017]

Supporting documents follow, including Jackling's 19 March comment that the note would be "necessarily discouraging about the possibility that British military action would be in time to be effective in the event of attack from Argentina". Read other documents selected from this file.