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82 Apr 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 26th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Security, Decisions Required) [full minutes with additional record of Lewin suggesting amphibious forces should sail at earliest possible date, ie, 23 Apr] [declassified Aug & Oct 2017]
82 Apr 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(I) (2200Z) (Amphibious Forces) [full minutes with additional record of Lewin suggesting amphibious forces should sail at earliest possible date, ie, 23 Apr] [declassified Aug & Oct 2017]
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]
82 Apr 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 151/742/1 (0900Z) ("Presentation to OD(SA) - 22 April 1982") [text of scripts used that morning] [declassified Dec 2012]
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]
82 Apr 22 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 149/742/1 ("Carriage of personal weapons") [CINCFLEET authorised to permit aircrew to carry personal weapons] [declassified Oct 2017]
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]
82 Apr 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 29th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 153/742/1 ("A Military Appreciation of the use of Vulcans for an attack on Stanley airfield") ["90 percent probability of causing one runway crater, and a 75 percent probability of causing two"] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 28th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Ascension Island) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 154/742/1 ("Gibraltar Defence Capability") [proposed deployment of two Jaguar aircraft to enhance Gibraltar defence during upcoming Spanish amphibious exercise] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 29th Meeting/82 (1515Z) (Operation Corporate Strategy, Meeting with Ministers, Appreciation by the Air Force Department) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 24 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 30th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required) [Sea King accident - low-key announcement; no plans to use QE2] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 5th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Security) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 5th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Security) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 158/742/1 ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [list of specific areas where UK might request increased military assistance from US] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 160/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - Record of Decisions or Action Completed") [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 31st meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 161/742/1 ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of OD(SA) (1345Z) (new ROE on High Seas) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD briefing for ACDS(Ops) ("COS Meeting 1000 26 Apr 1982") [annotated agenda] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 31st Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Actions & Decisions Required, Unforeseen matters) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 31st Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Paraquet, US Assistance) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 31st Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Paraquet, US Assistance) [US assistance paper placed "in abeyance"; captured Argentines are prisoners not POWs] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 32nd Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 162/742/1 ("Special Projects Group - Paper No.5") [deception proposal to convince Argentinians that British submarines were armed with Sub Harpoon, anti-surface ship cruise missile] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 32nd Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 162/742/1 ("Battle Casualty Replacements") [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 32nd Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 163/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - threat from aircraft carrier") [immediate threat if within 500 nm; suggests designated boundary and warning to Argentina via Swiss] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 33rd Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 168/742/1 ("Military threat posed by the aircraft carrier '25 of May'") [threat especially to ships en route from Ascension] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 32nd Meeting/82 (0930Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, Operation Sutton, Anti-Radiation Missiles) [press to be briefed on Santa Fe mission in South Georgia; Paraquet - Argentine prisoners ARE POWs] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 32nd Meeting/82 (0930Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Actions & Decisions Required, Argentive CVA, Operation Sutton - Follow-up forces, Unforeseen matters) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: CDS minute for Nott (0835Z) ("Operation Paraquet - Follow-up action") [signal replying to Fieldhouse's questions on handling POWs] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of OD(SA) - OD(SA)(82) 12th (0800Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [ROEs - HMS Spartan to be given same ROEs to attack conventional submarines as HMS Splendid and HMS Conqueror; Vulcans] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 33rd Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 167/742/1 ("The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the treatment of prisoners") [AUS(D) paper on POWs] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 33rd Meeting/82 (0945Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, Geneva Convention, Ascension Island, Force Levels, Logistic Requirements) [CINCFLEET to discuss force levels with COS at 1300Z; next Military Appreciation to be brought to COS ASAP] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: ACDS(Pol) minute for ACDS(Ops) ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [COS call for revision of paper; suggests prioritising items rather than eliminating them] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 171/742/1 ("Falkland Islands - Landing Operations") [paper for ministers to take stock of the aim of the operation and military factors affecting it - ACDS(Ops) annotated copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 171/742/1 ("Falkland Islands - Landing Operations") [paper for ministers to take stock of the aim of the operation and military factors affecting it] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 35th Meeting/82 (1000Z) (MBFR; UKMILREP Brussels; Joint Logistic Plan; Operation Corporate - intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required, force levels, the Argentine aircraft carrier, the threat to Ascension Island, South Georgia) [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee after 35th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 172/742/1 ("SSN ROE when contact is made with Argentine surface forces by RN forces enforcing the TEZ") [draft submission from Lewin to Nott] [declassified Dcr 2012]
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]
82 Apr 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD minutes of informal Defence Operations Executive meeting (1300Z) ("Notes of an informal DOE meeting - 29 April") [Construction of an airstrip on South Georgia; Ascension Island threat] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD briefing for ACDS(Ops) (0945Z) ("COS Meeting 28 April 82 - 1030 on call") [COS 33rd] declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 37th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 179/742/1 ("South Georgia airstrip") [not worthwhile to construct one at present] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 37th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 180/742/1 ("Movement of 5 Infantry Brigade to the Falkland Islands") [first draft] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 38th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 183/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - HMS Illustrious") [draft submission to Nott] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Agenda for Chiefs of Staff Committee 38th Meeting/82 (1530Z) (Intelligence; Own Forces; PR; Actions & Decisions Required; Falkland Islands Landing Operations - Reinforcements; South Georgia airstrip; Defence of Ascension Island; Unforeseen matters) [declassified Oct 2017]

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