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Text 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office press guidance note ("Safety of Civilians at Port Stanley") ["We are ... very conscious of the need to take all possible steps to safeguard the civilians on the Falkland Islands"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Bernard Ingham minute (Bruce Gardyne letter leak) [Samuel Brittan “embarrassed and angry”] [released 2017]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Digest (Falklands, Military, Diplomatic, Middle East, Economy, Pay) [reporting of information on latest casualties] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: United Nations; Vulcan; Astiz) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Kathmandu telegram 80 to FCO (0630Z) ( "Falklands: Gurkhas") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 292 to FCO (0815Z) ( "Falkland Islands: Japanese Vote at the UN") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office minute (0845Z) ("Death of Sgt Ian Hunt, Royal Marines") ["killed in action"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 54th (0900Z) (Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
Info only 82 Jun 11 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Letter to Michael Foot MP (Falklands)
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MT letter to Michael Foot (Falklands) ["I cannot agree with you that there would be any advantage to be gained by seeking now to return to the Security Council"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Mayor of Berlin (thanking for the gift) [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Michael Foot (Falklands crisis) ["Since our landings and the losses which we have incurred it would be unthinkable to negotiate about the future of the Islands as if everything were still as it had been before"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell (US views to the Falklands dispute) [MT has no doubt about the whole-hearted support of the US for the British cause] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Jock Stallard MP (burial of those killed during Falklands campaign) [traditional to bury servicemen "close to where they fall"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to King Hussein of Jordan (UN Security Council debate on Falklands; Israeli-Lebanon conflict) [MT thanks Hussein for Lebanon's "helpful position" on draft resolution] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks for forwarding message from Colonel Baker of the Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth) [response of Commonwealth peoples to Falklands conflict "has convinced me that patriotism is a strong plant, not a weed"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Local Government Finance and Organisation”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“MISC 79: Local Government”) [paper by the Central Policy Review Staff; poll tax] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The implications of a rail strike for power station coal stocks in the autumn”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (Nott authorises further Operation Black Buck to attack Port Stanley airfield) [contingency in case Vulcan has to divert to Brazil] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute to MT ("Release of Information about the Capture of Darwin and Goose Green") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: John Nott letter to John Silkin MP (emergency telephone numbers) [next of kin contacted directly "at the very first opportunity"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute for Pym ("Death of an Argentine Prisoner of War on South Georgia") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Leon Brittan letter to John Nott ("Defence Cash Limits") [disagrees with Nott's case for additional funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Pym minute to Nott ("Lebanon: Arrangements for the Possible Evacuation of UK Passport Holders and other Commonwealth Citizens") [Israeli-Lebanese conflict] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Habib Chatty, Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, letter to MT (Israeli-Lebanese conflict) [condemnation of Israel] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherman memo for MT ("Prime Minister's Office (PMO)") [rationale for and structure of PMO] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow note to MT ("Meeting with the Executive of the 1922 Committee - Monday 14 June 1982 at 3.10 P.M. in your room at the House") [agenda] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Sparrow minute to Scholar ("Youth Training Scheme: E(82)50") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Walters minute to MT ("E(82)50: Youth Training Scheme (YTS)") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Tebbit letter to Baroness Young ("The Youth Training Scheme and the Civil Service") [Tebbit and Young believe Government should participate in scheme; MT disagrees] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/EC: UKA The Hague letter to FCO (“The Dutch attitude to the Falklands dispute”) [Dutch Ambassador in London "apparently reporting in a rather unbalanced way"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Stephen Wall letter to FCO ("US elections: primaries") ["Goldwater and Reagan both went down to defeat in Tueday's primary elections in California" - Barry Jr and Maureen, that is; Wilson secured Republican nomination for US Senate] [declassified May 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to MT ("NCB: policy letter to the new Chairman") [dealing with NUM monopoly power] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to Scholar (NHS pay dispute) [public sector pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: Rees letter to John Stanley (securing contracts in Saudi Arabia) [consultancy-to-contract process; analysis following Stanley visit which reported US firms Bechtel and Parsons "have secured betweeen them the four largest construction projects in the Kingdom"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.37/38 - 10/11 Jun 1982") [news - Nott statement to Commons, Astiz return to Argentina, release of Vulcan by Brazil, NATO summit support for Britain, Gurkhas, Lebanon, soccer, weather; separate items (Argentine dead buried at Goose Green, pope meeting Junta, World Cup, surrender appeal); reception - jamming, BBC assessment] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, New Statesman's article, Middle East) [MoD casualty reports] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1000Z) (MT-Armstrong) ["Falkland Islands: Future"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1000Z) (MT-Armstrong) ["Falkland Islands Inquiry"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Hurtado of Ecuador telegram 70 to MT (1011Z) (The Falklands conflict) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Hurtado of Ecuador telegram 70 to MT and MT's response (1011Z) (Hurtado urges ceasefire and peace negotiations; MT emphasises that the onus is on Argentina to compromise) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT message to President Mubarak of Egypt (1011Z) (Israel-Lebanon conflict) ["We see no justification for Israel acting the way she has"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO (1050Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [Israeli-Lebanese conflict: Israel to declare ceasefire] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 73rd Meeting/82 (1100Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, POWs, South Sandwich Islands, Nimrod Aircraft) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Mubarak of Egypt (1100Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [Israeli-Lebanese conflict] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (1130Z) (MT, Chief Scientific Adviser Robin Nicholson) ["House of Lords Select Committee: Report of the Official Committee on Science and Technology (STO)" - MT reservations about proposed changes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press statement (1140Z) (Falklands) ["our forces continued to consolidate their positions"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Transcript of a telephone conference of the Special Situation Group (1335-1347Z) (the Falklands conflict) [published 2015]

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