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1982 Apr 30 - 1982 May 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/646
Argentina (Falklands: sensitive briefing) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 36
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Date Value Title
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 2nd May") [OD(SA)(82) 23rd] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Enforcing the TEZ: Press Statement") [Vulcan attack on Port Stanley airfield] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Minor 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]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: Wright minute to Whitmore (list of attendees for Chequers lunch on 2nd May) [18 attending] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) at 1430 on 30th April") [OD(SA)(82) 22nd] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Attack on Argentine Aircraft Carrier") [argues that Argentine Government should be notified prior to attack] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: BBC Monitoring Service transcript (0249Z) (Galtieri speech translation) ["Persist Until Victory"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (2215Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington") [fax copy annotated by MT - account of Pym's meeting with Haig; Reagan says UK Forces are "doing the work of the free world"; Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified Dec 2012]