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Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1330Z) (Galtieri, Haig, Costa Mendez, Enders and others) [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p184
Editorial comments:

Timing comes from the Argentinian version of this conversation in volumes of evidence assembled for the Rattenbach Commission (1030 local time). 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.

The Argentine record of this conversation can be read here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (Falklands)