Falklands: Acland PS letter to PS PUS MOD ("Falklands: sinking of merchant ships") [FCO legal advice that it could be justified if the ship "was forming part of the Argentine military effort at sea"] [declassified Dec 2012]

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Copied to DEFE25/462 f140.

FCO7/4491 f76 is a copy of the Freeland letter with Sinclair's covernote saying he agreed with it, annotated by Wright saying that Sinclair approved sending copies to MOD and Cabinet Office, which Acland approved. Hence this letter.