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Falklands: Arnold-Forster minute for Nicholls ("Illegal landing South Georgia") [Wiggin conversation with Luce, passing on discontent at HMS Endurance being prevented from using its helicopter freely; Luce agreed non-provocative intelligence gathering can be carried out] [declassified Jun 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE24/2394 f50
Editorial comments:

Read other documents selected from this file. Copies in ministerial private office files DEFE13/1606 and DEFE13/1552, both with problems of legibility. The copy in DEFE13/1552 has an annotation by Peter Blaker against the second paragraph: "What is this?"

On the issue of HMS Endurance's helicopters, see the following document.

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