Falklands: FCO minute (c1200Z) ("Falklands") [report of Argentine troop movements in the Falklands: "We must accept this as confirmation of an Argentine landing" - fuller version, MOD now confirming report] [declassified 2012]

Timing of minute estimated, allowing the FCO roughly an hour to receive the information and circulate the minute.

See Franks Report, para 257, p72. "At midday RRS Bransfield ... reported interruptions of local Falkland Islands radio broadcasts confirming that Argentines had landed". Confirmed by the log kept by the Director of BAS, Dr Dick Laws, which notes the satellite call at 1205 (ie, 1105Z).