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PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Whip's Office note to Nott PS (1500Z) (concerned backbencher) [Rhys-Williams letter urging no futile heroic gestures by Royal Marines against overwhelming force] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence note for Nott (conversation between Captain Barker of Endurance-ACNS(O)-DNOT) [FCO concern at instructions that Endurance should conceal itself "in one of the many fjiords in South Georgia", Luce concerned to avoid its detection or sinking; MOD believed concealment safest] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS minute for DS5 ("Falkland Islands: Chronology") [events 15 Feb-1 Apr 1982] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wiggin letter to Chief Whip (Commons rumours about HMS Invincible) [no equipment removed from the ship prior to proposed sale to Australia] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper minute for Head of DS5 (1200Z) (Order in Council to requisition shipping) [MT would prefer news to break via Parliament, would like to feel crew of Canberra and their unions would not be a problem; Goan crew also] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1200Z) (MT-Frank Cooper) [satellite or aerial images; media; war cabinet; PR; no press conference for Hunt at Brize Norton] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute for Lewin (command of Task Force and Royal Marines ashore) [no announcements to be made without his authority; shall have to satisfy colleagues that the best available individuals have been chosen] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lewin minute for Nott ("Rules of Engagement for the SSN's") [explains and encloses copy] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD note ("SAS Operations in support of 'Corporate'") [troops available; command and control; SAS tasks; SAS capabilities; communications; exercise penalties] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CNS PS minute to DCDS(I) ("Capabilities of the Argentine Armed Forces") [shortcomings of analysis, such as absence of reference to anti air warfare capability] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DUS(P) minute for Cooper ("Falkland Islands: Official Machinery") [meeting of ODO(SA); Armstrong also plans "much smaller group" to plan long-term and support ODSA] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to MOD (FCO doubts over use of Gurkhas in Falklands) [Wright raised at COS 4 Apr; FCO shares Nott's doubts on this point] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [papers addressing question of whether Falklands invasion could have been predicted on the basis of Argentine Government statements and press comment] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 record of conversation (Whitmore-Nott) [membership of Ministerial group on Falklands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS5 minute for Nott PS ("Line for P&O to take in discussion with Seamen's Union on use of Canberra and Elk in South Atlantic") [application of Naval Discipline Act if Active Service applies] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS minute to ACDS(Ops) (draft speech by Pym for 7 Apr debate) [comments needed by 1930] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to MOD ("Mr Nott's winding-up speech on 7 April") [passage on question of 'misjudgment' of Argentine intentions] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott's PS letter to No.10 (defensive material: response to allegation that Government is "ruining" the Navy) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Bramall minute for Nott ("States of Readiness") [most army units at 7 day notice to move; Nott comment "It may be necessary to reduce readiness ... if we wish to increase the pressure"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Patrick Wright letter to MOD (FCO legal advice on possible Exclusion Zone) [issues arising at 5th and 6th meetings of Chiefs of Staff; encloses two notes from FCO Legal Adviser, who believes declaration of war would be necessary before action against Argentine mainland] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Naval Staff minute to CNS (2250Z) ("Revision to proposed rules of engagement for SSNs") [Nott call to request separate ROEs for Argentine warships and auxiliaries] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Bramall minute for Nott ("Operation Corporate - Gurkha Involvement") [fundamentally disagrees with FCO reservations, although he considers small likelihood of 5 Brigade being involved in Corporate] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: McLoughlin briefing for Nott (call to Lord Buxton) [HMS Endurance now en route to Ascension; St Andrews Bay party declining evacuation with Endurance] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to CDS ("Capabilities of the Argentine Armed Forces") [detailed analysis, upgrading earlier assessment of air threat] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO briefing for Pym (meeting with Haig on 8 Apr) [as copied to Nott - speaking note; Argentine vulnerability to economic/financial pressure; UN; international reaction; economic measures against Argentina; Argentine scope for retaliation; OAS; Rio Treaty] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CTF317 (0849Z) ("Operation Corporate SSN Rules of Engagement") [amended to read 'any submarine detected not classified nuclear may be presumed to be Argentinian and may be attacked'] [declassified Feb 2018]
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