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PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston briefing for Acland ("ODSA: 9am 20 April") [ROEs on High Seas & suggested 48 hour delay of Operation Paraquet while diplomacy continues] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sinclair minute for Wright ("ROEs on the High Seas en route to the Falkland Islands") [updating Attorney-General - he suggested amendment to wording of public warning] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Omand letter to Pym PS ("Rules of Engagement for SSNs") ["clearing up any misunderstandings"; distinction between catalogue of ROEs and specific selections therefrom] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Omand letter to Pym PS ("Rules of Engagement for SSNs") ["clearing up any misunderstandings"; distinction between catalogue of ROEs and specific selections therefrom - FCO top copy with Weston comment: "plenty of fudge here", but FCO decides not to pursue further] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 148/742/1 ("Rules of Engagement - enforcement of Falkland Islands maritime and air exclusion zone") [draft minute from CDS to Nott, with list; annotated by Lewin] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 148/742/1 ("Rules of Engagement - enforcement of Falkland Islands maritime and air exclusion zone") [draft minute from CDS to Nott, with list] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 152/742/1 ("Rules of Engagement against surveillance aircraft") [draft minute from CDS to Nott] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (FCO lawyers meet Attorney-General) ["Falkland Islands: Surveillance of the Task Force by Argentine Aircraft"; Havers thought military action justified legally as a matter of law; need for warning to Argentine government] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Gillmore minute for Wright ("Surveillance of the Task Force by Argentine Transport Aircraft") [follow up to Chiefs of Staff discussion this morning; CDS wanting new ROEs to them to be shot down if they refused to be warned off; Weston and Gillmore argue for warning through Swiss] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 24 (Rules of Engagement for Total Exclusion Zone) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Wright ("Warning about protection of the fleet") [text ready for despatch following mandarin's group without further consultation with ministers] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (FCO lawyers meet Attorney-General) ["Rules of Engagement: Maritime and Air Exclusion Zone"; Havers thought ROEs on merchant ships unclear] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 30th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) ("Falklands: publication of warning to Argentines about protection of the fleet") [Leach favoured announcing warning and asking ministers to change ROEs to shoot down 707s only if warning ignored] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Argentine Reconnaissance Flights over the British Task Force") [UK warning to Argentina delivered yesterday; MT agrees Parsons's advice it should be notified to the UN, without announcement in London] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Gillmore ("Falklands: publication of warning to Argentines about protection of the fleet") [decision to publish warning by circulating it to UN Security Council] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Darwin minute for Gillmore ("OD(SA)(82)24: Annex B") [Havers suggests small amendments for OD(SA) paper] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wright minute for Pym PS ("Maritime Rules of Engagement") [seeks Pym's agreement to Nott's proposal to extend maritime ROEs, not discussed at OD(SA) yesterday] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wright minute for Weston ("Falkland Islands: Surveillance Aircraft") [further 707 overflight after warning; warning to be repeated; new ROE allowing such flights to be shot down] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acland minute for Pym PS ("Falkland Islands: Surveillance Aircraft") [further warning left to Pym's discretion; Acland advises it would look "rather feeble"; Pym agrees not to issue one] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Maritime Rules of Engagement") [content with Nott proposal to change ROEs regarding conventional submarines] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Wright ("Argentine fishing vessels: warning and Rules of Engagement") [draft warning following COS discussion this morning] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute for Wright ("ROEs") [MOD answer to his question about ROEs for SSNs outside MEZ - Rule 5 already in force] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 173/742/1 ("Procedures for processing Rules of Engagement") [ACDS(Ops) paper] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Wright ("Chiefs of Staff Committee: 30 April") [ROEs allow flexibility not to attack Islander or Beaver aircraft which are used on Falklands for medical emergencies; MT has taken "a personal interest" in continuing function of such facilities if possible] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wright minute for Weston (1230Z) ("Rules of Engagement outside the TEZ") [Acland call explaining ministerial decision permitting attack on General Belgrano] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Gillmore ("Rules of Engagement for SSNs") [following Belgrano sinking, FCO suspicion that military exaggerated in saying 12 hours needed to communicate with SSNs; Gillmore: "speed of transmission seems to vary in proportion to the aggressiveness of the instruction"; Acland notes OD(SA) decision reported immediately] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Gillmore and Pym PS ("Argentine Surveillance Aircraft: Rules of Engagement") [707 overflights of amphibious forces - Chiefs likely to want ROEs to allow surface ship to shoot down; case for further warning] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 203/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - Rationalisation of ROE") [draft OD(SA) paper] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute for Gillmore ("Chiefs of Staff (COS) Meeting: 8 May") [military seek to change ROEs to permit attack on any shipping in TEZ of whatever nationality] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: ACNS(O) minute to Leach PS ("Revision of ROE - Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering Vessels") [draft CDS minute to Nott, COS agreed this morning need to change ROE to attack two intelligence gathering vessels identified from boarding Narwal] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston briefing for Pym & Acland ("ODSA: 12 May: Rationalisation of ROEs") ["frankly the paper is a mess ... almost reached the point where plain language designed to ensure clear understanding is being deliberately suppressed"; TEZ extension - concerns of Uruguay & Chile] [declassified Dec 2012]
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