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Falklands: Wade-Gery letter to Whitmore ("Mr Haig and the Falklands Crisis") [US sanctions against Argentina a possibility; USSR assisting Argentina] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/617 f198
Editorial comments:

The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

There is a copy of this letter in Nott's Private Office file, DEFE13/1628 f267, which marks paragraph (b) with an X, copying the document with a question to PSO/CDS (Lewin's Principal Staff Officer, D. Brook) "do we want to reply on X? and set the record straight?"

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (Falklands)