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PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Treatment, Military, Dipomatic) ["Guardian says Foot is now in hands of Shadow Cabinet majority which does not want to be associated with use of force/Guardian suggests division of opinion in "inner Cabinet""] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (0724Z) (Falklands, Rio Treaty) ("to facilitate peaceful settlement of the dispute, it is urgent that the hostilities cease") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram (0815Z) (Falklands: Total Exclusion Zone) (extension of Maritime Exclusion Zone) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0815Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Intrepid) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Israeli arms sales to Argentina) ["We are naturally concerned about reports"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0900Z) (Death of Argentine prisoner) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) [death of an Argentinian prisoner, Total Exclusion Zone] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.129 (Falkland Islands: 28 April 1982) ["the crucial decision is whether the Argentine Government will agree to withdraw all its forces"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0925Z) (Falkland Islands - RM Passing Out parade 30/4/82) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Prime Minister of Thailand, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands: Inner Cabinet/Cabinet, Haig's proposals, Air Exclusion, Zone, Declaration of war, Urgency) ["Tactically if the proposals were to be rejected we believed it was always better for the other side to be in the position of making the rejection"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram (1400Z) (Falklands: Total Exclusion Zone) (application of Zone) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Weekend briefings, Haig proposals, Total Exclusion Zone, The Pope, US position) ["We rejected suggestions that HMG was committed to these proposals"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Treatment, Military, US, UK, Argentina) ["We are heading for the last chance of peace/ Mirror suggests Argentine officials now regard US as being on our side"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Weekend Lobby Briefings (Falkland Islands) [weekend briefings likely as long as crisis continues] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands: Cabinet, Military action, Timescale, Diplomacy, TEZ, Foreign support, Pope) ["We do not feel inhibited from using our military arm simply because diplomatic activities are still going on"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Tidepool) [postponement of delivery to Chile] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) [postponement of Tidepool delivery] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1015Z) (Falkland Islands - Soldiers Return to United Kingdom) [disciplinary action] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1030Z) (Falkland Islands: Dumbarton Castle, Leeds Castle, Bulwark, Berwick, Tartar) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman (thanks for support) ["There are many countries around the world which could suffer the consequences if aggression was rewarded in this case"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Dennis Skinner MP (Chesterfield CND letter about the Falklands campaign and nuclear weapons) ["It is of course inconceivable that Britain would use such weapons in confrontation with Argentina over the Falkland Islands"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (1322Z) (apparent rejection by Argentina of latest peace proposals) ["I cannot conceal from you how deeply let down [we] would feel if under these circumstances the U.S. were not now to give us its full support"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office note for ministers (1330Z) (Argentine Ship Tote) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1545Z) (PM's speech, British journalists, Admiral Woodward, Civil Service pay, Armed service pay, Haig proposals) ["Would not comment on the proposals acceptability to the British Government"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [US "tilt" towards UK] [with MT annotations] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (2218Z) (Argentina rejects US peace proposal) [Argentina's refusal "to negotiate in good faith [has] made it necessary for the United States to adopt a new posture toward Buenos Aires"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Treatment, Political, US support, Argentina) ["Press generally see this as D-Day/Mirror says there is big backing for us in Congress"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Moi of Kenya (thanks for support) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, PM's engagement, Haig proposals, TEZ, Red Cross, Shift of mood, Geneva conventions) ["We have no intention of using gratuitous force but every intention of enforcing the exclusion zone"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Advice on Argentina and the Falklands") [Ray Whitney concerned that Hugh Thomas may be misinforming MT on Argentina] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands) [General welcome for USA's "coming off the fence"- at last] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram 1562 to FCO (2025Z) (Falkland Islands) (Pym: "It is necessary for them to remove their forces from the Islands") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press release (0015Z) (Falkland Islands) [attacks by Argentine fighter and bomber aircraft] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands) [Every newspaper dominated by raids on Port Stanley and Goose Green airfields; their successful outcome] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (0840Z) (Falkland Islands) [engagement with two armed Argentine patrol craft type naval auxiliaries] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office telegram to News Department (0900Z) (Falkland Islands) ["British strategy all through has been to apply an inexorable pressure upon Argentina, diplomatic, economic and military"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [one ship has sustained damage] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1345Z) (Falkland Islands - Submarine operations) ["Task Force has and will be conducting anti-submarine operations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (US proposals, Haig talks, inquiry into invasion) ["We stressed that the UK continued to seek a diplomatic solution"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) (?2100Z) [Belgrano torpedoed, thought to be severely damaged; "posed a significant threat to the British Task Force maintaining the TEZ"]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: General Edwin Bramall letter to MT (thanks for lunch at Chequers) ["we are all grateful for the decisive leadership and support we have had from you during this crisis"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram 897 to UKE Washington (1015Z) ("Jamming of BBC Latin American Service") ["This is a serious development"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press announcement (1100Z) (Deployment of 5 Brigade and Requisition of QE2) ["This action is being taken because it is only prudent ... to have reserves available nearer the theatre"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1130Z) (Falkland Islands) [Task Force, TEZ, MEZ] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1530Z) (Additional statement on engagement with patrol craft; Northern Ireland - helicopter movement) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Pym press conference, Haig talks, Nott press conference, TEZ, international proposals) ["We did not encourage the idea of instant invasion, though not ruling it out as an option"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 634 to FCO (1805Z) ("Secretary of State's press conference") [talks with UN Secretary-General and President of the UNSCR] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1930Z) (Falkland Islands) ["These Islands are British"] [released 2013]

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