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PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: debate in Parliament on 29 April") [draft material for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Death of an Argentinian prisoner") [further details about shooting on South Georgia - misunderstanding the cause; to be buried with full military honours] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [suggested insert for MT speech tomorrow] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to Armstrong's Private Secretary ("Military Comments on Draft "Memorandum of Agreement"") [Lewin's view on military implications of draft agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD record of conversation (French Defence Attaché-Lewin PSO) [French stress secrecy; Sea Harrier-Etendard training "not convenient" at present; Argentine pilots considered 'good' by French] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 10 (1700Z) (Haig's proposals; TEZ; death of Argentinian POW; international opinion; statement by UNSG) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD record of conversation (?1500Z) (Nott, CDS, Cooper, Fieldhouse) ["Operation Sutton - increase in force levels"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper record of conversation (?1700Z) (Cooper, Armstrong and other mandarins) [no news from Haig, possible breakdown tomorrow, ideally avoiding publication of the proposals] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to Lewin (?1300Z) ("The Threat to Ascension") [Nott: "What are we doing about it?"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to CTG317.9 (1229Z) ("Death of Argentinian prisoner") [signal Board of Inquiry conclusions as soon as available; bury with military honours] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders") [official review of islander morale and arrangements for those wanting to leave temporarily] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute to Pym ("South Africa") [SAG "would respond favourably to any approach from the United Kingdom for the use of South African naval and other support facilities"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1509 to FCO (1625Z) ("Falklands") [Haig to make statement conveying "a tone of sorrow more than anger" at intransigence of Argentine Government] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1510 to FCO (1647Z) ("Falklands") ["easier for US to come down emphatically on our side if they can leave no doubt that the blame for the breakdown of the negotiations lay exclusively with the Argentinians"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1725Z) (MT-Chancellor Schmidt phone call) [unchanged German support for British position, and for a political solution; farm prices] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BDS Washington signal to MODUK (1929Z) ("For COSSEC from Head BDSW: Op Corporate") [US services thinking on their own initiative how they might help; possible help "if there a lot of casualties"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to Lewin ("General Galtieri") [assessment by CIA psychiatrists; "politically calculating and judicious" rather than impulsive] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to USofS (AF) ("Operation Corporate - repatriation of bodies") [decision not to repatriate bodies of persons dying south of Gibraltar] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Trenchard minute to Leach ("Operation Corporate - HMS Illustrious") [Nott to talk with Trenchard] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Trenchard minute to Nott ("The Falklands - a further ignorant contribution") [Trenchard believes the situation after a military solution will be as difficult as others think, nor will a military solution be so difficult to achieve] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT draft speech (?0900Z) ("Draft of PM's speech for this afternoon") [second draft] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper letter to Editor BBC Radio News (BBC radio unable to interview Lt Mills) ["not an easy situation for anyone"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1527 to FCO (0418Z) ('Falklands' - US tilt) ["I hope you will agree this puts the Americans squarely on our side. We can discuss imports later"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Enforcing the TEZ: Press Statement") [Vulcan attack on Port Stanley airfield] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS minute to ACDS(P&L) ("Operation Corporate: Requisition of Shipping") [separate paper commissioned for OD(SA) on STUFT for 5 Brigade] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: AUS(D) minute to Nott PS ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [preliminary framework for military response to US tilt] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Trenchard minute to Leach ("Operation Corporate - HMS Illustrious") [awaiting operational assessment of plan to bring acceptance forward] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery minute to Coles ("Falklands: Spanish Text of Haig Proposals") [Spanish text of Haig's proposals "introduces no ambiguities and no departures from the meaning of the original"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1525 to FCO (1539Z) ("Your telnos 874 and 875: Falklands") [textual changes; conversation with Haig] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET (1526Z) ("Operation Corporate - ROE against Argentine CVA (desig 25 May") [attack "at earliest possible moment" unless beyond defined line or within territorial limits] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lewin minute to Nott ("SSN Rules of Engagement (ROE)") [urges OD(SA) urgently to align SSN ROEs with surface ships should Argentine navy attack our aircraft and their carrier be assessed a threat] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lewin minute to Nott ("Operation Corporate - HMS Illustrious") [urges early acceptance of the new carrier; Nott wants meeting on Tuesday] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS5 minute to Nott ("The Santa Fe") [confusion about direction it was sailing when attacked on 25 April] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS8 minute to Nott ("Op Corporate: use of Gurkhas") [draft minute from Nott to Pym; Nott prefers to raise orally at OD(SA); FCO "reasonably relaxed"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS8 minute to DUS(P) ("Falkland Islands - informing NATO") [draft speeches for Nott next week] [declassified Spt 2017]
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