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PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Copenhagen telegram 126 to FCO (1530Z) ("Falklands: EC Import Ban") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1530Z) (Takacs, Middendorf) [current status of the negotiations at the UN] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 95 to FCO (1542Z) ("Conversation with Admiral Moya") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 176 to FCO (1545Z) ("Falklands - Renewal of Sanctions") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 94 to certain missions and dependent territories (1550Z) ("Falklands: LT Commander Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 482 to FCO (1608Z) ("Falklands: Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE The Hague telegram 120 to FCO (1610Z) ("Falklands: EC Import Embargo") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 485 to FCO (1615Z) ("Falklands: France/Ireland") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 272 to FCO (1618Z) ("Spanish Media Coverage of Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris 487 to FCO (1630Z) (“Franco-British Relations”) [the internal scene, the economy, foreign policy, the Falklands, Community issues, Versailles Summit, bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 149 to FCO (1635Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitudes") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 483 to FCO (1636Z) ("Falklands: French Attitude") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 174 to FCO (1700Z) ("Falkland Islands: Arms Sales") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 486 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands: Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1740Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of conversation (1740-1805Z) (Reagan-MT) [state of negotiations] [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department record of telephone conversation (1740–1805Z) (MT, President Reagan) [negotiations with Argentina] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 391 to FCO (1839Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands/Chile: Vernon Walters meeting with Pinochet (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] [140K scan]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 739 to FCO (1955Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 739 to FCO (1955Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department (2144Z) ("Message from the British on Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 740 to FCO (2210Z) ("Falklands: Briefing of Community Ambassadors") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 743 to FCO (2222Z) ("Falklands: Press Line") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Mobutu "Renounces" US Aid, Polish Debt") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1745 to FCO (2304Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1746 to FCO (2306Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1751 to FCO (2342Z) ("Falklands: US Attitudes") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1752 to FCO (2350Z) ("President Reagan's Press Conference: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [limited progress in accepting Walters’s Falklands solution][released 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 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 13 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 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [Parliament], Falklands: UN talks) ("they were in the thick of negotiations, grappling with a range of difficult problems") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1545Z) (Business, Falklands) (Biffen said "he had no evidence that the last stage of the last round of negotiations had been reached") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1610Z) (Falklands, TSRB) ("There must be no ceasefire without a verifiable commitment to withdrawal") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Ltd Cdr Astiz") ("We are not at war with Argentina") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Falkland Islands: 13 May") (Pym: "We have had our hopes raised several times before, only to be dashed") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Tories uneasy over Pym's attitude” [even admirers worry he will concede too much "go the second mile to reach a negotiated settlement"]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Defence Intelligence Staff minute for DGI ("Falklands Post Mortem") [annotated catalogue of MOD papers 1976-82 for internal study of events leading to Argentine invasion] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government Deputy Chief Whip's circular to whips (MT correspondence with Bowen Wells) ["open letter" by Wells setting out his view that post-war policy towards the islands should revive leaseback; 'unbelievable' (Peter Brooke), "why on earth is Ian Gow pushing him so hard" (David Hunt)] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (British Colmbia Group meeting) [Colombian Ambassador told around 8 backbenchers last night that Colombia backed Argentine claim but not use of force; told Dalyell that if Britain attacked mainland, Colombia and all Latin American countries would probably break relations with UK] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Michael Scholar ("Police Pay") ["we have to find something to replace the... indexation formula"; MT rejects advice to write to Whitelaw] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)25th Meeting) (1000Z) (Falklands - current intelligence; daily assessments; intelligence liaison; future JIC work) [Soviet long-term interests in South Atlantic paper agreed; daily assessment papers working well, with copies available to US and UK officials at start of US working day; future work including Gibraltar and Central America including Belize] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal (2033Z) ("Air Authority Comodora Rivadavia requests assessment of probability of British air attack against mainland") [possible Vulcan attack on military airbases] [declassified May 2023]

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