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Falklands: MOD minutes of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 2nd Meeting/82 (1410Z) (Falklands Situation, Operation Corporate, Decisions Required, Chile, Other Business) [full text, including list of attendees] [declassified Aug 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: Room 5301, MOD
Source: DEFE4/289 f19
Editorial comments:

1510 = 1410Z. The first meeting of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in 1982 took place on 21 Jan and can be found in DEFE4/289. The 2nd meeting was the first COS session during the Falklands crisis. Copies of the COS meetings during the Falklands which became available in 2012 can be found also in FCO7, and are on this site, but those versions contain the confidential annexes only. The full versions became available five years later. Read other COS material on this site.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 10pp
Themes: Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands)