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Text 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Info only 82 May 20 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Final British proposals published, after Argentine rejection
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1823 to FCO (0020Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 791 to FCO (0112Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 792 to FCO (0113Z) ("Falklands: Secretary-General's Initiative") [Perez de Cuellar urges "last urgent effort" to secure peace agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 792 to FCO (0113Z) ("Secretary-General's Initiative") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 793 to FCO (0210Z) ("Falklands") [update on UN-led negotiations: "the Secretary-General has dropped an extremely embarrassing bombshell"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 794 to FCO (0211Z) ("Falklands") [text of UN Secretary-General's Aide Memoire] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 794 to FCO (0211Z) ("Falklands: Secretary-General's Aide Memoire") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (0300Z) ("UK-Argentina: Argentines Await Assault") ["imminent military showdown", Junta believes "military defeat is more honorable" than a bad deal] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence unattributable press briefing to defence correspondents ("PUS questions and answers") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Whitelaw outlines new stop and search powers” [speech to Police Federation in Scarborough]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 20 May 1982) [update on UN-led negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: UN Developments) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Amman to FCO (0645Z) (“Iraq-Iran”) [King Hussein’s view] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Amman to FCO (0700Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [message to MT from King Hussein] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: King Hussein of Jordan telegram 207 to MT (0700Z) (support for UK) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Amman to FCO (0710Z) (“Iran-Iraq”) [message to President Reagan from King Hussein] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 39th (0900Z) (Diplomatic and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 41 (Argentina: EC Economic Measures) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 43 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 56 (Falkland Islands: The Independence Option) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 21st May") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th 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 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Franco/British Council") [funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Rickett (“BT tariffs”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Rickett ("BT Tariffs") [changes to benefit customer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (“Industrial action on LT and BR”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit internal minute (“Rail unions and strike pay”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO note to No.10 ("Falklands: Prime Minister's Speech") [Palliser's comments on latest draft of MT's speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (Hunt's paper on the future of the Falkland Islands) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Interim Agreement") [concerns about content of MT's draft speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Lieutenant Commander Astiz") [dispute with France and Sweden over extradition] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Views of Mr Edward Heath") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO paper for Parliament ("The Falkland Islands: Negotiations for a Peaceful Settlement") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“The world economic outlook and the Versailles summit”) [“widespread expectation that the world economic environment will remain difficult”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation/Women: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Taxation of widows and single women aged 60-64”) [MT: “One of the worst minutes I have ever seen from the Treasury!”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (assesses financial markets and prospects for interest rates) ["no move on interest rates can be countenanced while the Falklands dispute continues"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [possible abolition of Wages Councils] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hancock minute to MT ("The Luxembourg Compromise and Next Steps on the Budget") [EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Lawson minute to MT ("The Luxembourg Compromise and Next Steps on the Budget") [EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Education in Toxteth”) [“[LEA’s] failure to respond effectively to the dramatic fall in the school population which is at the heart of the problems now facing Toxteth”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute to MT ("Falkland Islands Inquiry") [memorandum for meeting to discuss composition and terms of reference] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falklands: New York Initiative") [developments in negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to South Atlantic Presentation Unit ("Falklands: Overseas Information Effort") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD note to FCO (passage for insertion in Pym's speech to Commons) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.2 - 20 May 1982") [news, military situation, features, sentimental interlude] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Brittan letter to Jenkin (“Investment & Financing Review”) [Public Expenditure Survey] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Lord Chamberlain's Office letter to MT ("Visit of the President of the United States of America and Mrs. Reagan: Arrival - Monday, 7th June, 1982") ["The Queen wishes you, as Prime Minister, to be present"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas record of conversation (Thomas-Alvaro de Soto) [Perez de Cuellar's chef de cabinet - UNSG's next moves] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Walters minute to Scholar ("Index-Linked Pensions") [Walters objects to Chancellor's "inconsistent" and "occasionally illogical" arguments] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord President draft letter to George Ffoulkes MP (mechanism for informing the House of Commons if Britain was legally at war with Argentina) [no state of war exists in fact] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key U.K. Government Falklands: British ultimatum to Argentina (“The Falkland Islands: Negotiations for a peaceful settlement”)
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 28th (1000Z) (Falkland Islands, Community Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 54th Meeting/82 (1000Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Military Options, Lieutenant-Commander Astiz) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 54th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1000Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Military Options) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer and Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 25 (Future Arrangements for Settling the Pay of MPs) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 90 to UKE Abidjan (1200Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Anton Keller message for MT (1218Z) ("South Atlantic Islands Conflict") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 442 to UKMIS New York (1400Z) ("Falklands") [Ministers feel Secretary-General's proposals "represent a significant movement downwards from our absolute bottom line"] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 May 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z)
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 795 to FCO (1439Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 795 to FCO (1439Z) ("Falklands") [Parsons speaks to Perez de Cuellar and emphasises that his aide memoire differs "in important respects from our bottom line"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT statement to the House of Commons (British peace proposals rejected by Argentina) (1443-1510Z) [UN negotiations] [annotated by MT] [released 2013]
Text 82 May 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands]
Audio 82 May 20 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 249 to FCO (1500Z) ("Chile/Falklands") [burned out British helicopter discovered near Punta Arenas - Chilean Foreign Minister summons Ambassador to protest indication "that British units had entered Chilean territory and violated Chilean sovereignty"] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 May 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC I: (1510-1550Z) [Falkland Islands]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 527 to FCO (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands") [suggests close contact over UN Security Council; case for EC broad gesture to mend forces with Latin America "at a very early stage after any military action"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 250 to FCO (1645Z) ("Falklands: The British Position") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 528 to FCO (1715Z) ("30 May Mandate") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 record of conversation (1730Z) (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Howell, Lawson, Younger, Tebbit, Lamont) [“The Railways”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 186 to FCO (1800Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 187 to FCO (1845Z) ("Falklands: New Peace Formula in the South Atlantic") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 467 to FCO (1859Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Genscher giving background to EC decision to continue sanctions only for one week - MT copy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Special Assistant for Warning memorandum to the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council ("Military Showdown in the Falklands: Alternative Outcomes") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy memorandum to Weinberger ("UK Request for Replenishment by Three US Ships") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC Staff memorandum to President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs ("Response to President Reagan's Query on 18 May Regarding Vulcan OPS") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 797 to FCO (1955Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 188 to FCO (2010Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 90 to FCO (2010Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 424 to UKE Mexico City (2020Z) (Lopez-Portillo's offer to arrange talks with Argentina) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1828 to FCO (2205Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Israeli Threat to Lebanon, El Salvador: New Decree on Land Reform") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 801 to FCO (2355Z) ("Falklands: Public Statements") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (pensions) [“Stupid reply” from Chancellor about indexed pensions][released 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Cabinet, Publications, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands) ("Our insistence was that sovereignty must not be prejudged") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1535Z) (UN Secretary-General, Falklands, Northern Ireland, Europe) ("The status of the aide-memoire largely depended on Argentine reaction to it") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper letter to Acland ("Falkland Islands: Nuclear Weapons") [nuclear weapons in Task Force now concentrated on carriers and RFA Regent, including the two surveillance rounds] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)27th Meeting) (1000Z) (Falklands - current assessments; immediate assessments; timing of CIGs) [decision to retain existing CIG timings "so that the CIG could take full advantage of the bulk of intelligence that became available between six and ten o'clock in the morning and so that Departmental representatives, particularly from the MOD, could bring the benefits of prior briefings within their own organisations"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: ?Rentschler note for National Security Adviser (message from Ambassador Kirkpatrick) [wishes to alert you that UN Secretary-General may wish President urgently to call Argentina] [declassified Jun 2006]
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