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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2353Z) (account of Reagan's conversation with Galtieri) ["He said that the advance of your fleet and the blockade of the Islands were making his situation difficult"] [released 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR 3/1/20 f79 (T73/82)
Editorial comments:

2353Z. The text in the Thatcher MSS is hard to read; for ease of study a copy from PREM19/618 is appended.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Defence (Falklands), MT contacts with Ronald Reagan, MT messages to and from world leaders