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1982 May 15 - 1982 May 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/648
Argentina (Falklands: sensitive briefing) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 172
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82 May 19 We Major Falklands: Wade-Gery note to Coles (draft speaking note on feasibility and legality of Falklands landing for MT's use at Cabinet) [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: Wade-Gery letter to Omand (OD(SA) decision on 14 May to authorise both phases of "special operation") [intelligence gathering and offensive action; 18 May Chiefs assured that Sutton was not contingent on success or otherwise of such operations] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1520Z) (MT-Pym-Owen-Steel) [briefing SDP-Liberals on diplomatic developments] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 784 to FCO (1632Z) (Argentine paper of "views and ideas") ["the Argentines have reverted to the negotiating position they occupied at the very beginning of Perez de Cuellar's initiative"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 783 to FCO (1659Z) ("Falklands") [translation of last night's Argentine paper shows it to be even worse than thought] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2135Z) (MT-UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar) [MT "very grateful for the Secretary General's efforts" but "we had gone as far as we could go"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 792 to FCO (0113Z) ("Falklands: Secretary-General's Initiative") [Perez de Cuellar urges "last urgent effort" to secure peace agreement] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 21st May") [OD(SA)(82) 40th] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: FCO note to No.10 ("Falklands: Prime Minister's Speech") [Palliser's comments on latest draft of MT's speech] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Interim Agreement") [concerns about content of MT's draft speech] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Lieutenant Commander Astiz") [dispute with France and Sweden over extradition] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: FCO paper for Parliament ("The Falkland Islands: Negotiations for a Peaceful Settlement") [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falklands: New York Initiative") [developments in negotiations] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: MOD note to FCO (passage for insertion in Pym's speech to Commons) [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 795 to FCO (1439Z) ("Falklands") [Parsons speaks to Perez de Cuellar and emphasises that his aide memoire differs "in important respects from our bottom line"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 20 Th Major Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 249 to FCO (1500Z) ("Chile/Falklands") [burned out British helicopter discovered near Punta Arenas - Chilean Foreign Minister summons Ambassador to protest indication "that British units had entered Chilean territory and violated Chilean sovereignty"] [declassified 2012]