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Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Reagan Library: Executive Secretariat, NSC: Meeting File (Box 6)
Editorial comments:

0935-1030 EDT = 1335-1430 GMT. Handwritten notes of the meeting by Colonel Mike Wheeler follow the typed minute. Discrepancies between the two suggest the typed minute may have been prepared from a different set of notes, not present in the file.

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Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 7pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Defence (Falklands)