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Text 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (0302Z) ("Falkland crisis: Junta continues deliberations") [Galtieri sends message: "unfortunately still not possible to give me a decision"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Treatment, Military, Dipomatic) ["Guardian says Foot is now in hands of Shadow Cabinet majority which does not want to be associated with use of force/Guardian suggests division of opinion in "inner Cabinet""] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [US; OAS meeting; Falkland evacuation; South Georgia; Brazil; British shipping] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (0724Z) (Falklands, Rio Treaty) ("to facilitate peaceful settlement of the dispute, it is urgent that the hostilities cease") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 19th (0800Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Home Office note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 32 (Argentinians: Visa Policy) [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 28 We 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) 33 (Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands) Bill) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 16, 1982 Series ("Industrial") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram (0815Z) (Falklands: Total Exclusion Zone) (extension of Maritime Exclusion Zone) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0815Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Intrepid) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Israeli arms sales to Argentina) ["We are naturally concerned about reports"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (0900Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0900Z) (Death of Argentine prisoner) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) [death of an Argentinian prisoner, Total Exclusion Zone] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.129 (Falkland Islands: 28 April 1982) ["the crucial decision is whether the Argentine Government will agree to withdraw all its forces"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0925Z) (Falkland Islands - RM Passing Out parade 30/4/82) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 note to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT wishes to know whether protocol on Special Interim Authority would need to be implemented by an Order of Parliament] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Invergordon smelter”) [future of the smelter] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (President Mitterrand's visit to London: preparations for Versaille Summit) [overlap with Prime Minister Mauroy's visit to Edinburgh for Franco-British Council meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Mandatory Resolutions") [information on unimplemented UNSCRs] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (Valedictory Despatch of HMA, Paris) [MT requested a copy to read] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: debate in Parliament on 29 April") [draft material for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Message of thanks from the Prime Minister to President Moi of Kenya") [MT agreed to send personal thanks to Moi] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Commonwealth and the Falkland Islands Dispute: Barbados and Guyana") [draft letters for MT to send their leaders] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute ("Cuban Missile Crisis: Secretary-General's opinion") [appeal to US and USSR was in fact negotiated with them in advance] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Death of an Argentinian prisoner") [further details about shooting on South Georgia - misunderstanding the cause; to be buried with full military honours] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [suggested insert for MT speech tomorrow] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to David Wright ("Military Comments on Draft "Memorandum of Agreement"") [Lewin's view on military implications of draft agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 29th April") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wolfson minute for MT (upcoming speech in Commons) [points stressing oBritish readiness to negotiate] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Brittan minute to MT ("Financial Management") [new drive to improve financial management in Government departments] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior note (“The Present Position”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Prior minute to MT ("Wages Councils and the Issue of Low Pay") [warns against abolition of Wages Councils] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Service Pay") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Cockfield minute to MT ("Monitoring Report: Public Trading Sector") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Fowler minute to MT ("Public Service Pay: The Health Service") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Armstrong minute to MT (“Stansted hijack”) [generally positive post mortem on performance of emergency machinery in response to expression of concern by MT; "the media gave rise to a number of problems"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Janet Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Progress on nationalised industries: E(NI)(82)10”) [staffing of sponsor divisions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Lawson PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Power engineers’ pay negotiations”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Pym PS minute to Mike Pattison ("Observers' Report: El Salvador Election") [publication of report] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 20th (0915Z) (Falkland Islands, Community Affairs) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Confidential Annex to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 20th (0915Z) (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 17 (The Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Armstrong minute to Coles (US Secretary of State George Shultz to visit G7 heads of state) [G7 Summit, Versailles] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Note for Wednesday meeting (weekly report on market conditions, official activity and rates in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 33rd Meeting/82 (0945Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, Geneva Convention, Ascension Island, Force Levels, Logistic Requirements) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 33rd Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0945Z) (OD(SA), Intelligence, Public Relations) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Prime Minister of Thailand, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands: Inner Cabinet/Cabinet, Haig's proposals, Air Exclusion, Zone, Declaration of war, Urgency) ["Tactically if the proposals were to be rejected we believed it was always better for the other side to be in the position of making the rejection"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [released 2013]

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