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Text 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: US Mission UN telegram to State Department (0112Z) ("Falklands crisis: potential elements of a United Nations contribution") ["informal note" from Perez de Cuellar] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BDS Washington signal to MODUK (0111Z) ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [Defence Attaché conversation with Senator Tower - Britain should formulate list of assistance sought when Haig fails; MT copy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to Haig (0252Z) ("Message for Foreign Minister Costa Mendez") [asks for instructions] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig message to Costa Mendez (0400Z) ("Letter to Costa Mendez") [London's reaction disappointed "but not closing the door"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1358 to FCO (0430Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Argentinians talking up latest proposals] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig letter to Argentine Foreign Minister Costa Mendez (0400Z) (British reactions to the paper developed in Buenos Aires) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig message to Pym (0445Z) (Argentine text) [Haig requests that MT and Pym identify specific problems with text of Argentine compromise position, and that Pym travels to Washington] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig message for Pym (0445Z) (Falklands Crisis: Argentine Position) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.114 (Falklands - ICRC) [Argentina has refused ICRC "request to send a delegation to the Falkland Islands to provide traditional humanitarian assistance"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.115 ("Falkland Islands - Ships Taken Up From Trade") [list] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.117 ("Falkland Islands") [Pym parliamentary answers on UN, evacuation of Islanders] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to Press Officers ("OAS and the Rio Treaty") ["Member states of the Rio Treaty cannot be obliged to take military action on behalf of another member state"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, Argentina, US, Military, Economic) ["The Sun suggested Cecil Parkinson warns that the Government will almost certainly fall from power if it backs down/Mail says Reagan's telephone call to you ... produced vigorous championing of our cause"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 167 to FCO (0604Z) ("Australian Government: Ministerial Resignations") [resignations of health, business ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: Haig Initiative, Argentine Action, Andean Pact Countries, Overflights of Portuguese Territory) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 25th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Sutton) [full text declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 25th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Sutton) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT message to Arab League Secretary General Chedli Klibi (potential conflict between Israel and Lebanon) [we "shall continue to urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Lord Wrenbury (thanks for message of support) ["The last two weeks have been a long hard haul, as hopes for a peaceful solution rise and fall like the tide"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute for MT ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO background note ("Falklands: UN as Temporary Administering Authority") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Message from Haig") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Government Savings Bank") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("An Eighth Round of Offshore Licensing") [timing of preliminary announcement & other outstanding issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future telecommunications policy”) [transition to privatisation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Nationalised industry draft objectives”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Hoskyns minute to MT (“BL’s future structure”) [“privatisation or close”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles note for MT (Falklands: the history of negotiations) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Lopez Portillo of Mexico message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [Lopez Portillo condemns use of force, but supports Argentine claim to Falklands] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Lopez-Portillo of Mexico letter to MT (The Falklands crisis: Mexican support for the UN Resolution) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (International Development Agency and the World Bank) [asks UK to use influence to encourage other nations to donate to IDA] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (proposals on re-engagement of former employees following lay-offs due to strike action) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Royal Visit") [Queen Mother: programme; security] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to FCO ("Rules of Engagement for SSNs") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("The Falklands Dispute and the ICJ") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Employment Bill: Clause 7") [proposals on re-engagement of former employees following lay-offs due to strike action] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (British High Commissioner, Indian Foreign Secretary) [extract on Falklands] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: CPRS letter to Tom King (“Relations with nationalised industries Follow-up to the CPRS report: BWB and the Water industry”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (0935Z) (“Future of Hong Kong: Nationality”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Reception for success, President of Cameroon, Northern Ireland Bill, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Pym, Falkland Islands) [most recent proposals not apparently securing wishes of islanders] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.113 (1030Z) ("Haig/Argentine Proposals") [No.10 statement - "at first sight they do not meet the requirements strongly expressed by Parliament"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 64 to certain missions and dependent territories (1100Z) ("Falklands: Militarism and Repression in Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [no major Argentine vessel ... has breached the Maritime Exclusion Zone] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 11th (1100Z) (Situation in the South Atlantic) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 26 (Cultural Relations with Argentina (Including Sporting Contacts)) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 16 (Mr Haig's Negotiations in Buenos Aires) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 17 (United Nations Resolutions Invoked by Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 18 (Comparison of the Draft Agreements of 13 and 19 April 1982) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 19 (Exchange of Notes Concerning Communications Between the Falkland Islands the Argentine Mainland (1971)) [declassified 2012]

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