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Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(82) 6th (1045Z) (Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982; Falkland Islands; Belize: Withdrawal of the Garrison) [declassified 2011]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: 10 Downing Street
Source: CAB 148/205 f34
Editorial comments:

1145 (=1045Z). Formal papers circulated to committee members and considered at the meeting can be read here. A copy of these minutes was filed on PREM19/613, but subsequently destroyed. A fuller record of the Falklands discussion was filed separately for reason of security. Material from these most confidential minutes of the committee, filed in CAB148/221, has been added to this item.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (general), Defence (Falklands), Parliament, MT's meetings as PM