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Info only 82 Apr 12 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] Falklands: Haig’s second visit to London (ended 13 Apr)
Text 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department press digest (0134Z) ("Highlights of April 10 & 11 TV Newscasts") [Falklands - Haig in Buenos Aires; Middle East] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to President Reagan (0219Z) (Memorandum for the President: Falklands Crisis) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to Judge Clark via State Department (0400Z) ("Statements on Islands Crisis") [warns against President Reagan speaking publicly of Britain and Argentina as "two friends" of the US] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 108") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis; Glasgow Hillhead by-election] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.100 ("Recall of Parliament, Missing Marines and civilians from South Georgia, Defence statement on MEZ") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Mr Haig's Visit to Buenos Aires") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Mr Haig's Visit Today") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan telegram 182 to MT (0810Z) ("Falklands") ["grave concern" at Argentine actions; support for UNSCR502; arms embargo; warning that future economic relationsbetween Japan and Argentina likely to be impeded if present crisis prolonged] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Manila telegram 114 to FCO (0815Z) ("Falkland Islands") [statement by Philippine Foreign Minister urging both sides to avoid force or the threat of it; no reference made to UNSCR502] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (0830Z) ("Arrangements for Meetings with Mr Haig: 12 April") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0830-1000Z) (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (MT, Haig and others) [Haig on the Junta: "The air force is fearful, the army is moderate, and the navy wants a fight"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig peace proposals (following first visit to Buenos Aires) [as amended following talks with British] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 16th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 110/742/1 (0900Z) ("Operation Corporate - Operations and Support Planning Assumptions") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 16th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 111/742/1 (0900Z) ("Rules of Engagement for Surface Ships and Aircraft in Operation Corporate") [draft RoEs] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 16th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, OD(SA), Gibraltar) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wright minute for Pym PS ("Argentine shipping near the Falkland Islands") [misbriefed Pym this morning on presence of Argentine warships in MEZ due to out of date intelligence; asking MOD to ensure up to date briefing ('vital' - Pym)] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKA Brasilia record of conversation (before 0900Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with French Ambassador to Brazil following his talk with senior Foreign Ministry official] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 318 to FCO (0900Z) ("Falklands: Merchant Shipping") [German shipowner concern at possible threat to safe passage of non-Argentine ships in Argentine coastal waters following MEZ] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan telegram 181 to MT (0915Z) (Japanese position on the Falklands conflict) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 181 to FCO (0915Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Japanese account of dealings with Argentine Ambassador in Tokyo; UK Ambassador expresses disappointment at Japan declining to ban Argentine imports] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS(A)1 briefing for CDS for OD(SA)(82) 5th (0930Z) (relevant papers, OD(SA) meeting, other matters) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 8 (Formal Consequences of a State of War Between the United Kingdom and Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 5th (1000Z) (Situation in the South Atlantic) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1110Z) (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan letter to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [Japan applying pressure on Argentina] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department morning press digest ("Foreign Media Reaction") ["Haig Falkland Islands Mission"] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute ("Call on Sr Rache de Almeida") [warns Brazilians "outcome of all this would be to Havana's advantage only"] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute (1300Z) ("Falklands - message from the President of Brazil") [draft reply; "Brazilians did well with the Cuban aircraft: but they do not deserve a warmer message"] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute ("Mr Haig's visit to Buenos Aires") [US telegram extract brought by Roger Harrison of USE London; "tentative cracks in the Argentine stonewall"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 99 to FCO (1445Z) ("Falkland Islands: Argentinian Propaganda") [Uruguayan media reports Argentine trade unionists visiting US to lobby AFL-CIO] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 83 to FCO (1450Z) ("Falkland Islands") [press reports on MEZ and Belaunde-Galtieri published letters] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 84 to FCO (1500Z) (Falkland Islands: La Prensa report) [Foreign Minister denying story that Peruvian armed forces had been placed on alert] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Montevideo telegram to MODUK (1505Z) ("Falkland Crisis: Argentine Navy") [US Naval Attache believes Argentine warships being kept out of MEZ and in territorial waters] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO (final version of draft agreed memorandum for proposal to Argentine Government) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1235 to FCO (1539Z) ("Falklands") [wants story of Cuban plane forced down in Brazil publicised quickly - MT copy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1235 to FCO (1539Z) ("Falklands") [wants story of Cuban plane forced down in Brazil publicised quickly] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to USE Buenos Aires (1554Z) ("Falkland Crisis") [Haig message to Galtieri] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig message to Galtieri (1554Z) ("Falkland crisis") [do not deviate from proposals they discussed on Saturday] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 3 to FCO (1600Z) ("Falkland Islands") [EC colleagues think European Commission's Santiago office should be providing PR support] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to MODUK (1650Z) (Operation Corporate deployment of Special Forces) [wants patrols to have capacity for offensive role in support of landings as well as reconnaissance] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1655Z) (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Notes made during meeting with Al Haig (Haig's peace proposals) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 87 to FCO (1715Z) ("Falkland Islands") [correction to telegram 83] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Asuncion telegram 26 to FCO (1757Z) ("Falklands") [Paraguay would not take sides, reflecting Stroessner's disenchantment with Argentina] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 94 to FCO (1900Z) ("Falklands: President Figueiredo's Message") [comparison between messages to MT and Galtieri shows in public for first time "lean towards Argentina"] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to Haig (1903Z) ("Falkland crisis") [Argentine reactions to his message to Galtieri] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (1931Z) ("Argentine Government Views of the Current Dispute with the United Kingdom") [published 2015]

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