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Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (1612Z) ("Argentine Army and Navy Assessment of the Current Status and Prospects of the Dispute with the United Kingdom over Islands in the South Atlantic") [Argentine naval intelligence sources doubting Argentine capacity to act; Camilion told US Ambassador Junta playing up incident to buy "political space" for Galtieri] [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p50
Editorial comments:

1612. Excerpt from Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015). Other documents from this volume can be seen here. Read the whole volume.

Published in 2015, but date of declassification unknown. The document may have been available for some time before inclusion in this volume.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence