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PDF 82 Apr 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BDS Washington signal to MODUK Navy (2136Z) ("Aviation fuel on Ascension Island") [next delivery due 24 April rather than 28 April] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 467 to FCO (2359Z) ("Falklands: Councillor Cheek") [best not link his visit to proceedings in Security Council] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 468 to FCO (0022Z) ("Falkland Islands at the UN") [conversation with President of UN Security Council - agreed Council should not involve itself while Haig mission underway] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Montevideo signal to MODUK (0030Z) ("Falklands crisis - sitrep and assessment") [reports from islanders arriving in Montevideo - Argentine logistics tail taking a long time to catch up with invasion; low morale] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1283 to FCO (0037Z) ("Falklands - Japanese position") [Eagleburger will put points to Japanese Ambassador when he sees him today] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1284 to FCO (0042Z) ("Falklands: ICRC") [Eagleburger will ensure Haig knows of British concern to get ICRC onto Falklands] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 188 to FCO (0325Z) ("Falklands: Japanese position") [UKE gave USE Tokyo "our view the Japanese were now hiding behind American skirts"; they replied locally their hands were tied without new instructions from Washington but agreed to ask] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to MODUK (1101Z) ("ROE request") [given intelligence of Argentine submarine threat in Falklands waters, seeks ROE change to attack any submarine detected] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CDS minute for Nott ("Gibraltar") ["concern throughout has to be enhance the defensive capability ... to avoid the appearance of significant reinforcement"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 723 to UKE Washington (1112Z) ("Economic Measures against Argentina") [Haig said in talks here that if Argentina was wholly intransigent US would threaten and apply economic sanctions] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [issue of Executive and Legislative Council's jurisdiction over Dependencies] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD (Falklands: draft message to Moscow) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD record of conversation (Nott, Bramall) ("Operation Corporate: Gurkha involvement") [Nott not wanting to limit use of Gurkhas, but stresses importance "over the next ten days or so" of not upsetting world opinion] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute ("Falkland Islands Operation - repatriation of bodies") [CINCFLEET has discretion; impractical to repatriate remains; "they will, therefore, be buried at sea"; contrary view in MOD "for political reasons"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Director of Naval Air Warfare minute for 1SL ("Sea Harrier AIM-9G and AIM-9L comparison") [Sidewinder variants as fitted to Sea Harriers; 9Ls will need to come from the German air force] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute ("Bransfield -> S. Georgia") [debate as to whether Bransfield should return to South Georgia; MOD and FCO advise against, "might prejudice PARAQUET"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 348 to FCO (1415Z) ("Falklands: French press comment 14 April") [persistent criticism of British policy from Suzannet, London correspondent of Le Figaro] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 198 to FCO (1418Z) ("Falkland Islands: Soviet attitude") [press portrays Argentina as proposing negotiating while Britain rattles its sabre] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Ottawa telegram 210 to FCO (1515Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Canadian concern at apparent US neutrality contrasted with Canada's strong support for UK; UKHC has quoted MT's praise of Haig in HC yesterday but now seeks guidance or background] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Montevideo signal to MODUK (1520Z) ("Falklands crisis - debrief of Mr Terence Hurley of Marconi Radar Systems") [condition of Argentine ships; Guerrico hit by bazooka shell just under bridge, three sailors killed] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram 54 to FCO (1539Z) ("Whereabouts of Royal Marines and BAS personnel") [Swiss pressing Argentinians for information; have asked Swiss to urge stronger security for British buildings under Swiss protection] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Paris signal to MODUK Navy (1545Z) (French role in marrying Super Etendard to Exocet AM39) [French say the Argentinians could do it themselves in approx 10 days] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 331 to FCO (1545Z) ("Argentine trade sanctions against the UK/other countries") [Argentine message delivered to FRG - reciprocal steps to ban EC imports] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin saving telegram 8 to FCO (by bag) ("Falklands: Irish press comments") [sovereignty less important than not using force] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1600Z) (MT-Ted Needham, Chairman of the Falkland Island Company) [account of conditions in the Falklands, and evacuation plan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 167 to FCO (1600Z) ("Argentine trade sanctions: Italian position") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 332 to FCO (1600Z) ("Falklands: German public and press comment") [Schmidt interview in this week's Die Zeit robustly supportive; generally sympathetic press] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CTF 317 (1610Z) (captured marines) [concerned for their wellbeing if they are still in Argentine captivity when Paraquet culminates] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 333 to FCO (1620Z) ("Falklands: quotable German quotes") [Schmidt interview in this week's Die Zeit "we stand here quite unequivocally on the side of our English allies"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 730 to UKE Washington (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Pym message to Haig] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 210 to UKE Moscow (1631Z) ("Falkland Islands: Soviet Ambassador's call on Mr Hurd") [Hurd traced 'disturbing' development of Soviet attitude to crisis; Popov replied that it was 'principled'] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BDS Washington signal to MODUK (1637Z) ("Op Corporate" - Stinger missiles) [State Department says approval temporarily withheld, being made ready for release when Haig "gives the word"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1286 to FCO (1638Z) (Falklands: Galtieri's regime) [Eagleburger acknowledges it was "extremely unstable and difficult to make predictions about. But ... any successor regime ... would be worse"; Kissinger's view also] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1287 to FCO (1643Z) (Falklands: Haig's Statement) [Eagleburger concern at how US performance as an ally was being viewed in Britain] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1288 to FCO (1647Z) (Falklands: Soviet Involvement) [Eagleburger showing "real concern about the developing Soviet involvement"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 148 to UKE Tokyo (1725Z) ("Falkland Islands: Japanese position") [conversation with Japanese Ambassador, Pym urging Japan to adopt economic sanctions] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 17 to BIS Buenos Aires (1745Z) ("Marines and BAS personnel from South Georgia") [Times has received report ship docked and they are to be flown to Montevideo; please confirm] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1289 to FCO (1752Z) ("Stinger") [Eagleburger "with considerable discomfort" said Haig had "reluctantly decided that he must ask us to put our request for Stinger on ice for the next few days"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Pym message for Haig (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands") [US guarantee] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BDS Washington signal to MODUK Navy (1950Z) ("Operation Corporate") [arrangements for delivery of IR photos and negatives to UK by hand of pilot; Concorde flights preferred in future] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1293 to FCO (2140Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [Administration officials quoted as saying US supplying "the widest range of intelligence reports in the situation in Argentina and around the Falklands"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1294 to FCO (2145Z) ("Falklands: US Press: Argentinian economy") [threat to banking system] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 95 to FCO (2150Z) ("Falklands") [text of Peruvian Foreign Minister's message to Pym] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 473 to FCO (2200Z) ("Falkland Islands at the UN") [ECOSOC - Argentina delivered "lame right of reply"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET and others (2230Z) ("Sitrep No.14 Operation Corporate as at 2200Z") [1. Int. Arg. Navy; 2. Arg. Army; 4. Naval; 6. Air] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 284 to FCO (2350Z) ("Meeting of Mexican Foreign Minister and Regis Debray") [account from French Ambassador, calling it "remarkable for two men of the left", Castaneda condemning invasion "in robust terms" and saying British use of force would not change Mexico's refusal to introduce sanctions against Britain] [declassified Dec 2012]
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