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Info only 82 Mar 25 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Glasgow Hillhead by-election: Roy Jenkins won Conservative seat for SDP
Text 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Navy sails to aid Falklands” [Argentines illegally on South Georgia cannot be allowed to remain, Hunt says; "If Argentina won't take them away, we will"]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Incident in the Falklands” [Air Commodore Frow letter on South Georgia and withdrawal of HMS Endurance; "It is still not too late to cancel this madness"]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hillhead [by-election]; Law & Order; Education; Economy ... Falklands) ["We send a gunboat - Endurance which sets off argument as to whether Endurance should be scrapped; D/Star says clear off Argentina"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: BBC Radio 4 Today programme report (c0730Z) (South Georgia incident) [interview with Falklands Chief Constable, Superintendant Ronald Lamb, and Lord Shackleton] [this copy released 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT reply to Carrington's minute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Carrington, Peter Preston) ["Management of the ODA": addressing employee Christopher Gerard's criticisms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 12th (1000Z) (Nurses' Pay, Coal, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (meeting of ministers, Queen's awards, law and order, NCB, Hillhead by-election) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("South Georgia: Mr Davidoff's Contract") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Constantino Davidoff letter to UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires (details of South Georgia scrap metal contract) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Fearn minute for Ure ("Illegal Landing at South Georgia") [Argentine Foreign Minister responds "unhelpfully" to UK request for removal of Argentine party from South Georgia; "there is a real risk of a miliary confrontation which we are in no position to win"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: John Weston minute to Gillmore ("Falkands") [MOD thinks Endurance would be out-gunned if intercepted so should be kept out of the way at Grytviken; options to reinforce - but Argentine navy "can always outnumber us"; Gillmore: "Alas Britannia!"] [declassified Aug 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Gregory-Hood minute to Robin Fearn ("South Georgia and HMS Endurance") [meeting at MOD; said "feelings were running high" in FCO on Endurance; "getting a lot of political 'flak' over £4.5m"] [declassified Aug 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 71 to UKE Buenos Aires (1130Z) ("South Georgia") [Carrington urges Argentine government to remove Argentine party from South Georgia immediately] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(82) 5th (1145Z) ("Northern Ireland: Constitutional Development") [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET & Governor Falklands (1250Z) ("Illegal Landing South Georgia") [Argentine naval ship (suspected) Bahia Paraiso arrived 1100; visibility very poor] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor Falklands telegram 49 to FCO (1327Z) ("Illegal landing on South Georgia") [Grytviken reports Argentine ship believed Bahia Paraiso now at Leith] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires Naval Attaché signal to CINCFLEET (1409Z) (NP8901) [new detachment arriving 27 March, old one could be returned possibly 5 April, but case for keeping both on Falklands "until situation has clarified"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires Naval Attaché signal to CINCFLEET (1422Z) (information on Argentine ship at Leith) [Bahia Paraiso, 9600 ton polar support ship] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Easter Recess; Northern Ireland; Defence - Trident, Defence - Endurance, Defence - Rhine Army; living standards) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 569 to UKE Washington (1500Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 briefing for PMQs (Luce's statement on the Falklands) [line to take on South Georgia incident] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Mar 25 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 101 to FCO (1623Z) ("South Georgia") ["no way in which the Argentines could remove the men, (...) without appearing to have responded to threat" - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 101 to FCO (1623Z) ("South Georgia") [UK Ambassador meeting with Argentine Foreign Ministers: "I was told that there seemed now no way in which the Argentines could remove the men...without appearing to have responded to threat"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London telegram to State Department (1748Z) ("HMG Requests US Help in South Georgia Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 568 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [indications Argentine warships would resist removal of Davidoff landing party] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 568 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [indications Argentine warships would resist removal of Davidoff landing party - unredacted version] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CINCFLEET (1848Z) (RFA Fort Austin) [ministers have approved its sailing on 29 March to replenish HMS Endurance; important no leak] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor Falklands telegram 51 to FCO (1941Z) ("South Georgia") [responding to UKE Buenos Aires telegram 101, denies going beyond lines laid down by FCO in dealing with the press] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to NP8901 (1945Z) ("Roulement of NP8901") [request views on "desirability and implications of retaining old NP8901 in Falkland Islands until current crisis" ends] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 103 to FCO (2004Z) ("South Georgia") [Ambassador's private thoughts on options for resolution - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Falklands/Press Office: UKE Buneos Aires telegram 104 to FCO (2005Z) ("South Georgia: Argentina Press Treatment") [illegal landing on South Georgia] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 104 to FCO (2005Z) ("South Georgia: Argentine press treatment") [Argentine press today highlights reports from London that HMS Endurance is en route for South Georgia, but tone calmer] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 72 to UKE Buenos Aires (2030Z) ("South Georgia") [compromise proposal to regularise presence of Argentine party at Leith - "ultimate effort of goodwill"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor Falklands telegram 52 to FCO (2101Z) ("South Georgia") [illegal landing - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Carrington message to Costa Mendez (c2130Z) (further proposed resolution, "ultimate effort of goodwill") [willingness to regularise Davidoff party if they report to Leith for formalities] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: NP8901 signal to MODUK (2130Z) ("Roulement of NP8901") [sees advantages of keeping old NP8901 alongside new, increases immediate strength threefold, since only one administrative section needed] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (2140Z) ("South Georgia") [situation in Leith; Bahia Paraiso flying pennant of Com Antarctic; "this Argentine arrogance is formidable"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 105 to FCO (2150Z) ("South Georgia") [gave your message to Costa Mendez; he declined view until he had consulted Galtieri; "if possible" tonight] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (2211Z) ("HMG Request for US Help in South Georgia Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT ("Announcement of an Eighth Round of Offshore Licensing") ["anything which adds to the difficulties of the fishing industry at this stage clearly needs the most careful thought"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 note to MT (Schools Council) [abolition proposal: "Nicholas Edwards feels that... any gain will not be worth the fuss"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("UN Second Special Session on Disarmament") [scheduling of MT speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: No.10 minute to MT ("UN Second Special Session on Disarmament") [MT speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cyprus: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece (situation in Cyprus) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Employment: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (thanks for invitation to visit Motec; MT must decline due to lack of time) ["I do much appreciate your courtesy in letting me know in advance what you propose to raise with me at Question time"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute for MT (“Anglo-French Summit: Follow-Up”) [declassified 2014]

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