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82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Luxembourg telegram 125 to FCO (0100Z) ("Falkland Islands: Secretary of State's Meeting with Haig") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Luxembourg telegram 126 to FCO (0102Z) ("Falkland Islands: Secretary of State's Meeting with Haig: Military Matters") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 237 to FCO (0200Z) ("Versailles Summit: Japanese Attitude to Falkland Islands Dispute") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1781 to FCO (0300Z) ("Falklands: Australian Prime Minister's Call on President Reagan") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0600Z) (Falkland Islands: United Nations, European Community, Japan) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: Transcript of BBC segment ( From Our Own Correspondent : government's negotiating position) [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 36th (0900Z) (Diplomatic and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 53 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 54 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 18th May") ["The meeting will be asked to authorise the Landing"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (0900Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: UK peace proposals ("Interim Agreement") [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 113") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MT letter for Archbishop of Westminster (morality of the military actions in the South Atlantic) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: MT letter to Sally Oppenheim (Robert Kee writes to The Times to object to Panorama coverage of opposition to Falklands campaign) ["a very courageous letter"] [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: MT letter to Cardinal Hume (moral justification of British response to Falklands crisis) ["I am sorry if you were puzzled by my last letter...I took [it] as meaning that you questioned whether our use of force was morally justified"] [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Korea: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (Seoul metro extension contract) [General Electric Company secure contract. Biffen: "a major success for GEC in what has traditionally been a Japanese sphere of influence"] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Science and Technology: MT letter to Kenneth Baker (Information Technology presentation) ["I was happy to spend some time away from the more immediate problems in the Falklands"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Civil Service: MT personal minute to ministers in charge of departments ("Financial Management") [need to "widen and deepen" efficiency drive] [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: No.10 letter to HMT ("Public Service Pay and Capital Investment") [MT persuaded that capital spending inducement scheme "would probably not be effective in practice"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("The Falkland Islands: Sovereignty") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Science and Technology: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“PM’s reception for IT: BT, and the Post Office”) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (discussions with France over supply of Exocets to Chile) [speaking notes for MT's meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO briefing for MT ("EC Import Embargo") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Call on the Prime Minister by the Governor of the Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Death of Prisoner of War on South Georgia") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Nott's message to South African Government] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Sporting contacts with Argentina: the World Cup”) [participation of UK teams] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Michael Foot MP letter for MT (the Falklands war discussion at the House of Commons) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Michael Foot letter to MT (Falkland Islands) [fulfilment of UN Security Council resolution]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Younger minute to MT (“Invergordon smelter: assistance for a potential new operator”) [Younger at odds with Cabinet colleagues] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Morocco: King Hassan of Morocco letter to MT (King Hassan postpones his visit to the UK on account of MT's preoccupation with Falklands campaign) [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT (phone conversation with PM Ulloa of Peru) [Galtieri needing to consult with civilian parties now, creating opportunity for concession British?] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Employment: Tebbit minute to MT ("CPRS Unemployment Study") [Tebbit's views on aims and purpose of the study] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Tebbit letter to Lord Cockfield (“Standards”) [Health & Safety] [declassified 2014]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Cockfield (report on industrial standards) [“obviously a great deal of work ahead… in building up our competitiveness”] [declassified 2014]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Rifkind letter to Lamont ("Future of Concorde") ["should [British Airways]... decide to continue the Concorde service without HMG's financial support, the French... may not feel able to terminate their own in-service support to Air France"; MT notes "If the French keep in-service support going - we shall have to"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Hancock minute to Coles ("Visit of President Mitterrand, 17 May: 30 May Mandate") [EC Budget negotiations: Commission's 1982 budget proposal] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 51st Meeting/82 (1030Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO notes of 51st Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1030Z) (Exocet, Submarines, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, sinking of merchant ships, Port Stanley Airfield, Blindfire/Rapier) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014]
82 May 17 Mo	Chronology	Major	[Chronology]	Anglo-French summit in London
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 276 to FCO (1136Z) ("Falklands/Gibraltar") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-Mitterrand) ["Supply by France of Exocet to Peru" - Mitterrand tells MT he "had decided that the implementation of the contract should be delayed for as long as necessary"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [lunch conversation: Middle East, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands & the Falklands War, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Vatican: FCO 14 to UKE Holy See (1215Z) ("Papal Visit") [cancellation of Pope's visit to the UK "might be interpreted by the British public and others as a pro-Argentine gesture"] [declassified 2011]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Jim Rentschler message for Judge Clark (1330Z) ("Falklands") [published 2015]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 249 to FCO (1345Z) ("Lieutenant-Commander Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1415Z) (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [Haughey uneasy about sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Radio Interview for IRN (Falklands) (1430-1500Z)
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 251 to FCO (1452Z) ("Falklands: Repatriation of POWs") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 279 to FCO (1521Z) ("Falklands and Gibraltar") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 762 to FCO (1535Z) ("Falklands: Statements to the Press") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 252 to FCO (1700Z) ("Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Chairman of the British Community Council in Argentina letter for MT (Evacuation of children) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: National Security Council staff memorandum to the President's Assistant for National Security ("Pressure on the Argentines") [published 2015]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 765 to FCO (2149Z) ("Falklands: Interim Agreement") [Parsons reports on his talks with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Library of Congress)	Falklands: Haig message for President Reagan (2154Z) (the final UK negotiating position) [published 2015]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 766 to FCO (2218Z) ("Falklands: Press Line") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Luxembourg telegram 149 to FCO (2229Z) ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting: Super Restricted Section - Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Israeli Message on Lebanon, Discussions with Summit Participants on Credit Restraints") [declassified 2016]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKE Luxembourg 151 to FCO (2358Z) ("EC Ministerial Meeting: 17 May: 30 May Mandate") [EC Budget negotiations: account of discussion of Foreign Ministers] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary [Guardian fiction that BA is to come under direct control of PM][released 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [Parliament], PM's weekend, Falklands, EC sanctions, EC Budget) ("There is no reason for us to feel any more optimistic of the outcome than hitherto") [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (PM's day, Mitterrand visit, UN negotiations, Reagan visit, Audience, Defence White Paper, London transport) ("We reaffirmed that Britain was not issuing deadlines over the UN talks") [released 2013]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)26th Meeting) (1330Z) (Falklands - current assessments; timing of CIGs) ["considerable advantage" in producing daily assessments "at a time more directly related to OD(SA) meetings at 0930" - agreed to discuss moving time of daily CIGs] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: McFarlane note for National Security Adviser ("Senator Stevens Resolution on the Falklands") [Haig asks about rumoured resolution calling Reagan to caution British against attacking mainland] [declassified Jun 2006]

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