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Text 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press release (0015Z) (Falkland Islands) [attacks by Argentine fighter and bomber aircraft] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BBC Monitoring Service transcript (0249Z) (Galtieri speech translation) ["Persist Until Victory"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Press Trivial Commentary (The Sunday Times) “The too-late look-alike” [look-alike of Lord Carrington]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands) [Every newspaper dominated by raids on Port Stanley and Goose Green airfields; their successful outcome] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (0611Z) ("Revised Peruvian peace formula") [meeting with President Belaunde] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (0629Z) ("South Atlantic Peace Proposal: Peruvian Text") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 2 May) [Vulcan & naval attacks on Port Stanley airport; Galtieri speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (0840Z) (Falkland Islands) [engagement with two armed Argentine patrol craft type naval auxiliaries] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office telegram to News Department (0900Z) (Falkland Islands) ["British strategy all through has been to apply an inexorable pressure upon Argentina, diplomatic, economic and military"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Lt Cdr Alfredo Astiz") [Swedish request to interview him in connection with murder of a Swedish national in 1977] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Secretary of State's return") [will he need to be met at airport? possible Commons statements] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Possible meeting of North Atlantic Council on 3 May") [British Ambassador to NATO contemplating calling NAC to brief colleagues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Lima (0904Z) ("Peruvian Initiative") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Lima (0904Z) ("Peruvian Initiative") [Haig message to President Belaunde] [declassified Nov 2001]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 40th Meeting/82 (0915Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Military Options for Repossession of the Falklands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute of 40th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0915Z) ("Defence matters") [Gurkhas; Astiz; UK cooperation with Chile; Argentinian submarine Santa Fé; Venezuela; action in NATO; Chiefs of Staff meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 40th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0915Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Naval Reinforcements, British Garrison in the Falkland Islands, Ascension Island, Special Forces, Military Options, Argentine Aircraft Carrier) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute of 40th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0915Z) ("Military options for repossession of the Falkland Islands") [comments on paper taken at Chiefs of Staff committee that morning] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [one ship has sustained damage] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD Press Statement (1120Z) (air attacks on Port Stanley airfield) [update on hostilities] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 1098 to UKE Washington (1136Z) (message to pass on to Reagan) ["The position of principle taken by the President himself...has been and remains an immensely beneficial influence"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 23rd (1330Z) (Military and Political Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1345Z) (Falkland Islands - Submarine operations) ["Task Force has and will be conducting anti-submarine operations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (1500Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 147 to FCO (1503Z) ("Falklands: Brazilian Official Position") [Vulcan raid on Port Stanley] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: President Reagan letter to President Figueiredo of Brazil (1530Z) (US position regarding the Falklands conflict) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (US proposals, Haig talks, inquiry into invasion) ["We stressed that the UK continued to seek a diplomatic solution"] [released 2013]
Text 82 May 2 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Written Statement inviting Opposition leaders to private consultations (1800Z) (BBC Radio News Report)
Text 82 May 2 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Thatcher memoirs Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract]
Info only 82 May 2 Su Chronology Key [Chronology] Falklands: General Belgrano torpedoed by HMS Conqueror (1857Z); cruiser sank with 321 dead
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Conqueror Report of Proceedings (1857Z) [extract covering 2 May, including attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) (?2100Z) [Belgrano torpedoed, thought to be severely damaged; "posed a significant threat to the British Task Force maintaining the TEZ"]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (2215Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington") [fax copy annotated by MT - account of Pym's meeting with Haig; Reagan says UK Forces are "doing the work of the free world"; Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (2215Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington") [account of Pym's meeting with Haig; Reagan says UK Forces are "doing the work of the free world"; Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1568 to FCO (2230Z) ("Falklands: Press Conference by Secretary of State in Washington") [saw Haig last week as a mediator, "today I have come back to consult him as an ally"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (2233Z) ("Peruvian Initiative") [US Ambassador's conversation with President Belaunde] [declassified Nov 2001]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1569 to FCO (2300Z) ("Falklands: Your Talk with Haig") [clarification of Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (2326Z) ("Peruvian Initiative: Belaunde Speaks with Costa Mendez") [published 2015]
Text 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Hogg article on unemployment; Keegan referred to Walters as not wanting to emerge from depression][released 2012]
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