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PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1515Z) (Criminal Justice Bill, Northern Ireland Bill, Falkland Islands) ["the Lord President said the British response was designed to be constructive and to give a lift to negotiations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1515Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Liverpool) [will be joining Task Force] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1634 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands") [Henderson meets again with Haig; Haig unsure what to do with US/Peruvian peace proposals] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1900Z) (Falklands - Diplomatic Initiatives) ["There could be no question of any ceasefire without Argentine withdrawal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Caracas telegram 153 to FCO (2000Z) ("Falkland Islands") [UK Ambassador to Venezuela meets with President Herrera; Venezuela will not take measures against UK, but argues Falklands should be given up] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 663 to FCO (2007Z) ("Secretary General's Proposals") [Parson's delivers Pym's message to Perez de Cuellar on HMG's peace proposals] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1648 to FCO (2243Z) ("Repatriation of POWs") [UK requests US help with transport of POWs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Mexico telegram 366 to FCO (0325Z) ("Falklands") [Galtieri suggests meeting in Cancun with MT to discuss Falklands dispute] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1651 to FCO (0350Z) ("Falklands") [Henderson discusses UK draft text with Haig: "In general he thinks it is first class. He is full of admiration for the diplomatic stance we are now taking"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.131 (Prime Minister's meeting with Governor of the Falklands and Mr Cheek and Mr Luxton) [MT "made clear how deeply she felt for the Islanders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.132 (Falklands - Trusteeship) ["There is a rumour going the rounds that the Inner Cabinet are keen on the idea of Trusteeship"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Falkland Islands: 7 May: Post Press Conference) ["Argentine intransigence has - now for the second time - pushed off the table constructive proposals"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Falkland Islands) ["The Task Force continues to enforce the Total Exclusion Zone"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Falkland Islands - Reports of an Argentine vessel being hit by a Bofors gun off South Georgia) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Injured Argentine seaman) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Falkland Islands - KC 135 Tankers) [possible use of US refuelling tankers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Two Harriers lost, Geest port) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Falkland Islands) [air-to-air refuelling] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Right Reverend Andrew Doig (government still seeks negotiated settlement to Falklands dispute) [until Argentine forces withdraw from Falklands "we will continue to exercise our rights of self defence"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (regret at those who have lost their lives in the South Atlantic) ["they gave them to defend a very important principle"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT (MT could meet with Prime Minister Ulloa of Peru) [11 or 13 May] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (thanks for meeting Caldera, former President of Venezuela) ["You probably found the occasion most distressing", but meeting "exceptionally interesting"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (PM's day, Falkland Islands) ["There was no evidence that the Argentines were prepared to come off the Islands and no evidence that they would allow negotiations to go ahead unprejudiced"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (PM's day, Falkland Islands) ["We emphasised that we had given no ultimatum nor set any deadline, though we repeated the point about the need to avoid being shunted into a siding while the Argentines played for time"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Prime Minister Adams of Barbados (1702Z) (thanks for support) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Burnham of Guyana (1702Z) (thanks for support) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 17 (1800Z) (Pym press conference, sporting links with Argentina, 'Are We At War?') [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Stephen Hastings MP (thanks for overnight stay at Milton Hall) ["The phone call over breakfast indicated that the airstrip at Port Stanley had been bombed by the Vulcans successfully"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1040Z) (Exocet interception, Sheffield survivors) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0930Z) (Illustrious, Additional 4 frigates) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press statement (1100Z) (HMS Sheffield survivors) ["They will be brought home to UK as soon as opportunities arise"] [released 2013]
Text 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1230Z) (Casualty reporting) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0920Z) (PR guidance - Hercules being converted for air-to-air tanker role) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1315Z) (PR guidance - Victoria Cross) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0920Z) (Argentine reports of landing in the Falklands) [reports that Task Force has begun an attack are not true] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1300Z) (Repatriation of Argentine PoWs) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Thames TV Interview for Weekend World (John Nott interviewed on the Falklands) [Nott: "we have not invaded the Falkland Islands, although we are of course continuing to enforce the total exclusion zone"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Sheffield Councillor I.L. Podmore (attack on HMS Sheffield) ["I grieve over those who gave their lives on HMS SHEFFIELD, and over those who were injured"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Ryle (Falklands crisis) ["I cannot agree with you that the illegal occupation of the Falkland Islands is a relatively minor event"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters note to MT ("Messel's Weekly Economic Monitor'") [Walters points to evidence of the City's confidence in MT; City concerns about Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 112") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 18 (Nott and Parkinson interviews) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Weekend activities, EC, New York talks) ("We had no great optimism") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Maldives, Press notice, Falklands, Media, EC) ("We had no reason for optimism although some progress had been made") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Cardinal Hume (response to letter from Hume and Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh) ["I was surprised that you should question whether our use of force in the South Atlantic was morally justified"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum to MT (PM Ulloa of Peru remaining in Helsinki) [Ulloa believes he "might be called on to play a part" in Falklands dispute; hopes to succeed Belaunde as president] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 19 (1100Z) (UN negotiations, meeting of EC Foreign Ministers, paying for Falklands operations, HMS Britannia, Narwal attack, Pym at HoC Foreign Affairs Committee) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram 1700 to FCO (1920Z) (Falkland Islands: Argentinian Views on Sovereignty) [quotes from Argentinian official "acknowledging that Argentina had dropped its insistence that its sovereignty be recognised before withdrawal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [Parliament], Falklands: timing, Panorama, films and pictures, Football, MPs' pay, Hanging) ("we had quite a lot of time is still needed to explore every diplomatic avenue") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office brief (1600Z) ("Falklands correspondence coming to No 10") (coming in at a rate of about 900 a day) [released 2013]

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