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Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1700Z) ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [corrected memcon; redacted] [declassified 2001]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher digital archive, per State Department website
Editorial comments:

Listed by date of meeting. Despatched 13 April 0929Z. Released under FOI on 12 December 2001. A draft of the memcon, now fully declassified, can be read here. This earlier version is left online in case it was cited or linked to.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Defence (Falklands)