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Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1289 to FCO (1752Z) ("Stinger") [Eagleburger "with considerable discomfort" said Haig had "reluctantly decided that he must ask us to put our request for Stinger on ice for the next few days"] [declassified Dec 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE24/2237 f120
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Oddly enough no copy of this telegram seems to be present in No.10's files, although several others relating to the same conversation were seen and annotated by MT.

Copied without annotation to FCO7/4534 f112.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Media, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Defence (Falklands)