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Argentine Junta: Malvinas Group memoranda ("Directiva de Estrategia Nacional No.2/82 (CASO MALVINAS)") [and other documents before the Junta when it decided to invade the islands] [declassified 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Malvinas Special Commission papers, 1-27 March 1982, file AR-EA-CEM-IEC-01-03 f355: Argentine Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires
Editorial comments:

Undated; assigned to 26 March because considered at the Junta meeting that evening. Supporting documents follow the directive. Published online April 2022. The Malvinas Group was formed in great secrecy by the Junta in January 1982 to plan the invasion of the islands. Its documents were handwritten for additional security. Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 47pp
Themes: Defence (Falklands)