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Falklands: MOD minute for Head DS11 (paper on deployment of RN ships) ["I gather that the P.M. has become very ?stressed about threats to the F.I."] [declassified Jun 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE24/2264/1 f123
Editorial comments:

The crucial word unfortunately is hard to glean. Perhaps 'itemised' comes closest, but makes less sense. The implication, however, would seem clear enough: the Prime Minister was taking a close interest in the topic of threats to the Falklands. hence her request to John Nott for information as to how long it would take to deploy naval vessels to the Falklands. Note that the original of this document was contaminated with asbestos and has been destroyed. The scan made incorporates only this part of the original page, Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Defence (Falklands)