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PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute ("Falkland Islands: UK [sic US] Assistance") [case for lease/lend of a small or medium sized US carrier] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to CAS ("Port Stanley Airfield") [reliable intelligence that runway had been extended narrowly 50-75 yards at western end] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to CAS ("Civilians remaining on the Falkland Islands") [intelligence suggest only 180 civilians left in Port Stanley, "best guess"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD briefing for Nott ("OD(SA) Meeting - 0900 28 April: Briefing on announcement of a Total Exclusion Zone (TEZ)") [points to make; text of announcement; Q&A; background note] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Argentinian prisoner") [shooting on South Georgia - British obligations under Third Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET (0835Z) ("Op Corporate/Paraquet") [policy on POWs - no political objection to routing via Ascension "with FCO however paramount principle is earliest return to Argentina"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 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]
PDF 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]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott PS minute for CDS PSO ("Operation Corporate - Operation and Support planning assumptions") [Nott response to CDS minute of 22 Apr and Cooper's 26 Apr] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS11 minute to Nott APS ("Evacuation of BAS personnel from South Georgia") [arrangements to evacuate them on HMS Antrim; PM briefed accordingly for PMQs] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to MODUK (1516Z) ("Operation Sutton - Increase in Force Levels") [exclusive for CDS and Chiefs - in view latest intelligence on enemy force, "I require a minimum increase in military force levels of brigade size with necessary supporting assets"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET (2148Z) ("Sitrep No.26 Op Corporate as at 272200A Apr 82") [1. Int; 2. Own Forces; 3. Naval; 4. Air] [declassified Jul 2017]
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: Minutes 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) [full text] [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 34th Meeting/82 (1300Z) (Operation Corporate, Force Levels) [discussion of the merits and demerits of Operation Sutton] [full text; declassified Aug 2017]
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: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 35th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 170/742/1 ("Military threat posed to British forces by the Argentine aircraft carrier 25 of May") [draft paper for OD(SA)] [declassified Dcr 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 35th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 170/742/1 ("Military threat posed to British forces by the Argentine aircraft carrier 25 of May") [draft paper for OD(SA) - comments by ?Director of Naval Plans, showing Leach's preferred option] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD sitrep (0500Z) ("Duty Commander's brief 290600 April") [British Battle Group now 500nm from TEZ, making 7 knots in heavy weather, ETA 2 May] [declassified Jul 2017]
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