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PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1700Z) (Sir Frank Cooper-Fleet Street editors - meeting 1) ["Briefing for editors on the Falkland Islands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1700Z) (Sir Frank Cooper-Fleet Street editors - meeting 2) ["Second briefing for editors on Falklands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1700Z) (Sir Frank Cooper-Fleet Street editors - meeting 3) ["Third meeting with editors on Falklands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Chief of Defence Staff ("Falkland Islands - the media") ["I think we are losing ground. We need to regain it and be more positive and respond more quickly"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1700Z) (Sir Frank Cooper & Chief of Defence Staff - Fleet Street editors - meeting 4) ["Fourth meeting with editors on Falklands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS ("Falklands: public presentation") [sends document on "Falklands PR policy"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Chief of Public Relations MOD ("Public relations - Falkland Islands") ["You are in full charge", but Deputy CPR would continue to act as "our main - though not invariably exclusive - spokesman"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Assistant Under-Secretary ("Falklands: news release policy") [establishes News Release Group "to decide what current operational information should be made available to the press and to FCO posts for dissemination overseas"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chief of Public Relations minute to Nott PS ("BBC interview requests") [case for accepting bid from BBC The World This Weekend] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper letter to BBC Director-General (requisition of transmitter) [establishing Radio Atlantico del Sur to broadcast in Spanish to Argentine garrison on the Falklands] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Privy Council Office record of conversation (1600Z) (Parkinson, Onslow, Cooper, Ingham & other officials) [role of minister in supplementing work of Ingham's daily group] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.2 - 20 May 1982") [news, military situation, features, sentimental interlude] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.3 - 21 May 1982") [news, military situation, popular features, sentimental interlude; jamming] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS ("Falklands public presentation") [sends document on "Television from the South Atlantic" and list of MOD briefings for press since 11 May] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chief of Public Relations MOD briefing for Cooper (Fleet Street editors - meeting 5) [facilities on ships involved in raids; censorship and delay] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1045Z) (Sir Frank Cooper & MOD Chief of Public Relations - Fleet Street editors - meeting 5) ["Fifth meeting with editors on Falklands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 22 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.4 - 22 May 1982") [news - primarily British landings, separate items, popular features, sentimental interlude; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD briefing for Cooper ("Background briefing for US correspondents") [line to take on US assistance to UK - "US Government still very nervous about making any details public"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 23 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.5 - 23 May 1982") [news - primarily British landings, separate items, popular features, sentimental interlude; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD briefing for UKMIS New York ("Account of military operations on 20, 21 and 22 May in the Falkland Islands areas for the UN Security Council") [requested by Parsons to counteract circulation in SCR of Argentine military communiques] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.6 - 24 May 1982") [news - Nott Commons statement, separate items (handling of prisoners, Junta divisions), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS (return to UK of crew from HMS Sheffield) ["Our policy is to play this generally in a low key"; Captain and five others will give press conference at RAF Brize Norton] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Privy Council Office record of conversation (1700Z) (Parkinson, Onslow, Cooper, Wade-Gery & other officials) [no particular publicity problems in the previous week] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.7 - 25 May 1982") [news - less Falklands; papal visit confirmed, separate items (battle; Harrier; diplomacy; Gurkhas), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS ("Briefing for correspondents") [planned unattributable briefings on flammability of warships; on shore air defences; mobility of ground forces] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.8 - 26 May 1982") [news - Nott statement, beachhead build up papal visit to Britain and Argentina; separate items (military situation), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 261 to FCO (1500Z) ("Chile/Argentina/Falklands: British press comment") [MFA tells UKA that Daily Star canard about British helicopters being flown to Ascension then assembled in Chile "potentially very dangerous" to Chile's neutral stance] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.9/10 - 27/28 May 1982") [news - MT Commons statement, Haig, start of papal visit to Britain; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; Buenos Aires situation from French press), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS minute ("Notes of actions arising from PUS's meeting of 27 May 1982") [ten points] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS minute ("Notes of actions arising from PUS's meeting of 28 May 1982") [five points] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.11/12 - 28/29 May 1982") [news - recapture of Darwin & Goose Green, Reagan support for Britain, OAS for Argentina, papal visit to Britain; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; statement by captured Argentine pilot); reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 30 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.13/14 - 29/30 May 1982") [news - British advance, capture of many prisoners, papal visit to Britain; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; Gurkhas); reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.15/16 - 30/31 May 1982") [news - British ships attacking Port Stanley, recapture of Douglas and Teal, surrender of Argentine troops at Goose Green, papal visit to Britain; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; detail about Goose Green action); reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.17/18 - 31 May/1 Jun 1982") [news - Argentine prisoners moved from Goose Green, air actions during the day, papal visit to Britain, UN, Nicaragua, Columbia; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; details of Argentinian wounded on SS Uganda, World Cup report); reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Privy Council Office record of conversation (1700Z) (Parkinson, Fenn, Stewart, Ingham, Goodall & other officials) ["no major presentational problems since the group's last meeting"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.21/22 - 2/3 Jun 1982") [news - BBC interview with Mrs Thatcher, consolidation of British troops around Port Stanley; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; prisoners' rights under the Geneva Convention, lists of prisoners, "Argentine pop music"); reception/feedback] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.23/24 - 3/4 Jun 1982") [news - leaflets, details of fighting; Red Cross arrival at Falklands on HMS Hecla, papal message to Argentina; separate items (military and political situation; deficiencies of Argentine equipment, stores and supply; more lists of prisoners, denial of claim that HMS Invincible had been sunk; sport); reception - jamming ineffectual] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 5 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.25/26 - 4/5 Jun 1982") [news - UK/US veto of UNSCR ceasefire resolution; MT-Reagan talks in Paris; Astiz arrival in UK; Vulcan bomber at Rio; Israel-Lebanon; Iran-Iraq war; Soviet talks with Argentine grain board; separate items (military and political situation; list of wounded prisoners, Q&A on Geneva Convention; Costa Mendez in Havana); reception - determined efforts at jamming evening show especially, but ineffectual] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.31/32 - 7/8 Jun 1982") [news - appeal from General Moore to Menendez to stop the fighting, clearing minefields, Argentine burials, killed, prisoners, Reagan arrival in UK, World Cup; separate items (support for British position at Versailles G7; Gurkhas, demonstration by families of desaparacidos during papal visit to Argentina); reception - determined efforts at jamming, Argentine "Radio National Malvinas" has closed] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper PS minute to SPC/CDS ("Radio Atlantico del Sur") [PUS has read summaries of output with interest; what evidence is there of its audience? mentioned by Argentine POWs?] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.33/34 - 8/9 Jun 1982") [news - Reagan address to Parliament, attack on Liberian oil tanker, Israel/Lebanon, papal visit to Argentina; separate items (prisoners, decisive battle for Port Stanley, British rations, World Cup, surrender appeal); reception - jamming not effective even in Buenos Aires] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence briefing for Sir Frank Cooper (meeting with editors) [tv film, still pictures; QEII, submarines; arrangements for press after re-possession of the Falklands] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1700Z) (Sir Frank Cooper-Fleet Street editors - meeting 6) ["Sixth meeting with editors on Falklands emergency"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 1140 to UKE Washington (2153Z) ("Falklands: MOD press statement") [casualties on Sir Tristram and Sir Galahad "much heavier" than earlier reported] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.35/36 - 9/10 Jun 1982") [news - MT interview with NBC, French diplomatic support for UK, Lebanon, British ops around Port Stanley; separate items (news from Buenos Aires, World Cup round-up); reception - jamming] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Special Project Group minute to CDS ("Radio Atlantico del Sur (RAdS) - Situation Report") [no feedback from prisoners; neutral observers favourable; jamming ineffectual; only station broadcasting names of Argentine captured and wounded] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: John Nott letter to John Silkin MP (emergency telephone numbers) [next of kin contacted directly "at the very first opportunity"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.37/38 - 10/11 Jun 1982") [news - Nott statement to Commons, Astiz return to Argentina, release of Vulcan by Brazil, NATO summit support for Britain, Gurkhas, Lebanon, soccer, weather; separate items (Argentine dead buried at Goose Green, pope meeting Junta, World Cup, surrender appeal); reception - jamming, BBC assessment] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.39/40 - 11/12 Jun 1982") [news - consolidation of British positions around Port Stanley, MT denying unconditional surrender the only acceptable aim, General Menendez conversation with mainland, French dropping case against Astiz; separate items (full BBC transcript of Menendez call on low morale of troops, pope's call for peace, sports); reception - jamming] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.41/42 - 12/13 Jun 1982") [news - British advance on Port Stanley, Lebanon, sole British POW still held; separate items (list of prisoners on Norland, press interview with Galtieri, Geneva Convention in relation to civilians, papal visit, World Cup); reception - jamming] [declassified Oct 2019]

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