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Text 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: Significant event report prepared in the National Military Command Center (0000Z) ("Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 137 to FCO (0103Z) ("Falklands") [Foreign Minister outlines further peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 335 to UKMIS New York (0115Z) ("Falkland Islands: Total Exclusion Zone") ["We have just heard from the MOD that the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano has been hit by two torpedoes from the submarine HMS Conqueror"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 138 to FCO (0118Z) (Peruvian peace proposals) [MT's annotation: "Not enough"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 4 to UKE Lima (0501Z) ("Falklands") [UK response to Peruvian peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 631 to FCO (0533Z) ("Falklands") [Pym's talks with UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 632 to FCO (0543Z) ("Your Visit to New York: Falklands") [UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar aide memoire for Pym] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 632 to FCO (0543Z) ("Your Visit to New York: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 411 to FCO (0720Z) ("Falklands: French Press Reaction") [dominating front pages, talk of war; papers of right and left seeing Britain as fighting for honour and principle] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 3 May) [attack on the Belgrano, Peruvian peace plan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 143 to UKDEL NATO (0830Z) ("Falkland Islands: Total Exclusion Zone") [MOD statement on sinking of Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 6th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Ascension Island, Requistioning of Shipping) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 6th Meeting/82 (Argentine Aicraft Carrier, Own Forces, Ascension Island, QE2) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Iraq: MT message to Saddam Hussein (British citizen sentenced to life imprisonment in Iraq) ["I urge your Excellency to exercise clemency and to order the release of this harmless old man"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) St Lucia: MT message to Prime Minister Compton of St Lucia (congratulations on election) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: General Edwin Bramall letter to MT (thanks for lunch at Chequers) ["we are all grateful for the decisive leadership and support we have had from you during this crisis"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Argentine Aircraft - Laser Equipment") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: President of the European Parliament letter to MT (resolution on the Falklands conflict) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 120 to FCO (0915Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Statement") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram 897 to UKE Washington (1015Z) ("Jamming of BBC Latin American Service") ["This is a serious development"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 897 to UKE Washington (1015Z) ("Jamming of BBC Latin American Service") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press announcement (1100Z) (Deployment of 5 Brigade and Requisition of QE2) ["This action is being taken because it is only prudent ... to have reserves available nearer the theatre"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1130Z) (Falkland Islands) [Task Force, TEZ, MEZ] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1345Z) ("START") (NSC 0049) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 337 to UKMIS New York (1430Z) ("Falkland Islands: Total Exclusion Zone (TEZ)") [instructions for reply if pressed on whether engagement with Belgrano took place outside of Exclusion Zone] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (1434Z) ("End of Peruvian Initiative") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo 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 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 239 to FCO (1500Z) ("The Falklands: Spanish Government's Position") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1522Z) ("Evacuation Contingency Planning") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1530Z) (Additional statement on engagement with patrol craft; Northern Ireland - helicopter movement) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) Paper (1600Z) (lines to take on military action and Pym's visit to Washington) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Pym press conference, Haig talks, Nott press conference, TEZ, international proposals) ["We did not encourage the idea of instant invasion, though not ruling it out as an option"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1572 to FCO (1645Z) ("Falklands") [US offers aircraft carrier for UK use] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 634 to FCO (1805Z) ("Secretary of State's press conference") [talks with UN Secretary-General and President of the UNSCR] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 634 to FCO (1805Z) ("Secretary of State's Press Conference") [Pym's press conference at the UN] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig letter for Pym (the Falklands crisis) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 237 to FCO (Parsons telegram from UKE - Spain reported to have offered mediation assistance to Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1930Z) (Falkland Islands) ["These Islands are British"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of telephone conversation (1932-1940Z) (Haig, President Belaunde of Peru) [the Falklands conflict] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Burt information memorandum to Haig ("UK Requests for Military Support") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Burt information memorandum to Eagleburger ("Delivery of Civilian Helicopters to Argentina") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Warr minute (1940Z) ("General Belgrano: Argentinian Communique No. 16") [statement by Joint General Staff] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit note (1940Z) ("General Belgrano: Argentinian Communique No.16") [Belgrano "presumed to have sunk"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Knight-Smith minute ("Reported Sinking of General Belgrano and Second Argentine Patrol/Naval Auxiliary Vessel") [Argentine account of sinking passed on to FCO via UN] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1574 to FCO (2012Z) ("Falklands") [Haig update on Peruvian peace plan; worries that public opinion in the US and elsewhere will turn against UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 14 (transcript of Nott's press conference) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 203 to FCO (2100Z) ("Falklands/Chile/Argentina") [elections for new OAS Secretary General] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1575 to FCO (2135Z) ("Falklands") [Haig believes Argentina will accept terms of Peruvian peace plan; Henderson says UK "not in a mood to rush to an armistice just because the Argentinians were losing"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 638 to FCO (2200Z) ("Your Visit to New York: Community Briefing") [Parsons' briefing of representatives of the Ten] [declassified 2012]

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