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Text 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: JICREP UKE Washington telegram to JIC (0135Z) ("JICTEL No.73: Falkland Islands") [State Department reporting from Buenos Aires - marines from HMS Endurance now interned on South Georgia, bomb near British Embassy in BA defused] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Press Major Commentary (Sunday Times) Falklands: “Carrington: They must stay British” [Carrington statement in Lords Saturday session]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 129 to FCO (0605Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Prime Minister Fraser of Australia announces full support for UK Government against Argentine "invasion and occupation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute to No.10 (0630Z) ("Falkland Islands: SITREP at 0730, 4 April") [passage of UNSCR 502, but with much sympathy for Argentinian case on sovereignty; South Georgia confirmed to have fallen] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Amman telegram 130 to FCO (0800Z) ("Falklands") [arrangements for King Hussein's phone conversation with MT] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for Whitmore (note for the record) [MT requests analysis of recent intelligence and JIC assessments of the Falklands Islands situation] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 4th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Intelligence Assessment, Own Forces, Military Appreciation, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Special Boat Section, Argentine Presence in the UK, SAS) [partly redacted text, with material also on SAS] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 4th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Intelligence Assessment, Own Forces, Military Appreciation, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Special Boat Section, Argentine Presence in the UK, SAS) [full text, including list of attendees] [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 4th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0830Z) (relations with Argentina, South Africa, HMS Endurance, Gurkhas, Gibraltar etc) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Defence Staff record of conversation (0830Z) (remarks at Chiefs of Staff Committee) ["Falkland Islands - NATO aspects"; CAS asking what we tell NATO, Nott replying] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands, Argentine assets frozen, UN support) [Government felt to have suffered Parliamentary humiliation] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and order, unemployment, unions and pay) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin 78 (Facts; Indications from press reports; Ministers; Governor's party; Press arrangements; Prince Andrew; Other points) [British marines on South Georgia overwhelmed] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for Pattison ("Falkland Islands") [MT wants Nott to speak in the next debate; will have to be another Falklands statement tomorrow] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for Whitmore (First Sea Lord's request for a meeting with MT) [has a suggestion re: HMS Invincible; MT asks him to talk with Whitmore] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT requests account of Argentine press comment and Argentine Government statements in run-up to invasion; seeks to respond to criticism of HMG] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT asked today "what scope there might be for increasing internal opposition to the Argentine regime"; BBC External Services broadcasting] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [need to examine charge that analysis of Argentine public statements and press should have given warning of invasion] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [text of message of thanks to President Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: COMIL signal to Comandante Teatro Malvinas (decision to strengthen defence of the islands) (Spanish original) [no more forces to be withdrawn; seeks information on current strength and supplies] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw) [MT concern that tv appearances by "armchair strategists" might prejudice military options; Whitelaw undertaking to act] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute ("Falklands: Lines of Action") [steps following passage of UNSCR502] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute ('Argentina') [Edmund Vestey's offer to make contact with authorities in Argentina if useful] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute to No.10 ("Falkland: Security Council") [draft message of thanks to President Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 200 to UKMIS New York (1020Z) ("Security Council: Falkland Islands") [Carrington message to Parsons: "Many congratulations on this important success ... most valuable"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/Falklands: UKE Rome letter to FCO (Colombo statement to press) [first Italian comment on Falklands - "Whatever the reasons invoked by Argentina, Italy can only deplore the intervention of its armed forces in the Falklands"] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute to MT (chartering of passenger line Canberra for use as troop transport) [has already decided to charter the ship; needs to lay order in council today] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS note for DIS(CS) ("Falkland Islands") [Nott requires "defensive briefing on the Argentine military capability" by midday 6 Apr] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS note for MOD ("Falkland Islands: House of Commons Debate") [list of topics on which Nott requires "powerful speaking notes" by midday 6 Apr] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS note for Head of DS5 ("Falkland Islands: Chronology") [events in Falklands/Argentina and Whitehall/MOD, particularly from 19/20 March] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott APS minute for DS5 ("Falkland Islands: Chronology") [events 15 Feb-1 Apr 1982] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS5 note to Nott APS note ("HMS Superb") ["plans for disinformation" - CINCFLEET proposing to "do nothing to shake the Argentinian belief that she was in the South Atlantic"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wiggin letter to Chief Whip (Commons rumours about HMS Invincible) [no equipment removed from the ship prior to proposed sale to Australia] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 295 to FCO (1120Z) ("Falkland Islands") [German Ambassador to BA meets with Galtieri: "Galtieri added that he had no special confidence in US attempts to mediate in the dispute. He preferred to look to Europe to do this"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 295 to FCO (1120Z) ("Falkland Islands") [German Ambassador's conversation with Galtieri; if Argentina's western friends did not support her "she would accept military assistance from any other source"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper minute for Head of DS5 (1200Z) (Order in Council to requisition shipping) [MT would prefer news to break via Parliament, would like to feel crew of Canberra and their unions would not be a problem; Goan crew also] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (1200Z) (MT-Frank Cooper) [satellite or aerial images; media; war cabinet; PR; no press conference for Hunt at Brize Norton] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington telegram 60 to UKE Bogota (1210Z) (and Lima, Mexico City, Ottawa, Quito) ("Falkland Islands: Contingency Planning") [seeks advice as to whether their governments would agree staging and/or overflights in connection with current operation] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 201 to UKMIS New York (1222Z) ("From UND [UN Department]: Falklands") [legal opinion on possible reference to ICJ] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to HMS Endurance (1223Z) ("Operation Corporate") ["Remain covert in vicinity South Georgia with aim of gaining intelligence from any internal/external communications"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (1223Z) ("Operation Corporate") [BAS staff in outposts] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK Army signal to UKLF (1315Z) ("Op Corporate: Contingency planning for 5 INF BGD") [COS rejected sending it with RM first echelon; "Severe shortage of civilian shipping precluded this option, but we continue to explore shipping possibilities and option not yet totally ruled out"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (1320Z) ("Operation Corporate") [delighted by performance of ship and marines, but prefer delay publicity while covert role task underway; Argentine media stating Endurance sunk] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (1335Z) ("Op Corporate South Georgia Sitrep") [BAS staff and Royal Marines assumed in Bahia Paraiso] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to CINCFLEET (1400Z) (possible Argentine demand to move out of 'their' waters) ["Do you wish me to react belligerently"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 65 to FCO (1441Z) ("Falkland Islands: Communiqué") [Peruvian Government "(A) reiterates its support for the recovery by the Argentine Republic of the Malvinas Islands (B) ... international controversies must be resolved peacefully"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to HMS Endurance (1553Z) (possible Argentine demand to move out of 'their' waters) [obey ROEs (fire only in self-defence); if impossible to remain covert, exit to North East] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Ottawa telegram 173 to FCO (1545Z) ("Falkland Islands") [US Ambassador "very glad that we were sending the navy ... hoped that we would go in and wipe the Argentine invaders out"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 65 to FCO (1441Z) ("Falkland Islands") [MFA communique last night recognising Argentine sovereignty over islands but peacefully within deconolisation process laid down by UN resolution] [declassified Jun 2017]

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