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Date: 26 May 1982.

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PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands - yesterday's military activity, OD(SA), Astiz, PM's speech) ["we said that we deplore any casuality - on either side - but that when embarking on an exericse of this kind it was inevitable that some casualties would occur"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MOD note to Gow (1100Z) (passage for insertion into MT's speech) [loss of HMS Coventry and the Atlantic Conveyer; landings at San Carlos Bay; victory certain] [released 2013]
Text 82 May 26 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference (1345Z)
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Note for Conservative Women's Conference speech (Francis Drake's prayer) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 484 to FCO (1335Z) ("Falklands: German Public Comments") [Schmidt warning that German support for British position was not "a blank cheque"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 261 to FCO (1500Z) ("Chile/Argentina/Falklands: British press comment") [MFA tells UKA that Daily Star canard about British helicopters being flown to Ascension then assembled in Chile "potentially very dangerous" to Chile's neutral stance] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1510Z) (Morning lobby repeated, Mr Nott's statement, Atlantic Conveyor, mainland attacks, Port Stanley) ["When asked if it would be days or weeks we said we were going to take Port Stanley in our own time .... But we hoped it would turn out to be a matter of days"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO telegram 109 to various posts (1545Z) ("South Africa and the Falklands Crisis: Allegations of Military Supplies to Argentina") [government had "taken steps to ensure that the South African Government was aware of the serious view we would take if it should be confirmed that military supplies were reaching Argentina"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (1615Z) (MT, Younger, Jenkin, Tebbit, Lawson, Brittan, John Sparrow) [“Invergordon smelter”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 210 to FCO (1630Z) ("Falklands: Rio Treaty Meeting") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 164 to FCO (1650Z) (Figg-Haughey discussion on Falklands, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 109 to UKE Bogota (1659Z) ("Falkland Islands: Joint Approach of Presidents of Colombia, Brazil and Peru") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 110 to UKE Bogota (1659Z) ("Joint Approach of Presidents of Colombia, Brazil and Peru") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT, Howell, Whitelaw, Howe, Lawson, Younger, Jenkin, Tebbit , Brittan) [“The railways”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 1065 to Haig (1800Z) (Pym updates Haig on state of British public opinion) ["What people want to see is the repossession of the Islands and the restoration of British administration"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 441 to FCO (1841Z) ("Prime Minister's Message to Mexican President") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Pym message for Haig (the Falklands dispute) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig memorandum to President Reagan ("Falklands Crisis") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC staff memorandum to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs ("Proposed Presidential Mediation in the South Atlantic") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Howe & Burt memorandum to Eagleburger ("UK Use of US Facilities at Lajes") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Eagleburger memorandum to President Reagan ("UN Security Council: New Falklands Resolution") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") [British victory "most probable ... in the next few weeks"; probability of UK attacks on mainland lower than before 21 May landings] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Officer for Warning memorandum ("NIO/W Contribution to the Watch Committee") [likely Argentine "military humiliation"; expects GOA to adopt "overtly hostile stance towards the US"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 202 to FCO (1933Z) ("Falklands: Press Highlights") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 858 to FCO (2105Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("UN Security Council: New Falklands Resolution, Central America, Secretary Haig's Meeting with Crown Prince Hassan") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 439 to FCO (2355Z) ("Falklands: Rio Treaty Meeting") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [“Disaster indeed - but not yet reported”; critical issue of rail strike][released 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Note for Wednesday meeting (weekly report on market conditions, official activity and rates in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market week report (a report on a week of market conditions) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We 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 26 We 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 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris letter to FCO ("Falklands Crisis: Attitude of the PCF") ["broadly neutral in the first two weeks" then "stridently anti-British" from mid-April, following Soviet briefing, although Marchais warning against attacking any French island] [declassified Dec 2012]

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