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Text 82 Apr 17 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Jonathan Warrender account of lunch at Chequers (1200Z) ["the impressions both the Thatchers made that day remain vivid"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1333 to FCO (1705Z) ("Falklands") [Clark account of Junta's intransigence; concerned at British critcism of US "neutral stance"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, Military, Economic) ["Pressure on Reagan to back Britain intensifies"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) ("Falkland Islands: Sitrep by FCO 0730 18 April") [Haig's peace initiative, US position, Latin America, Royal Marines, journalists] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman letter to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [support for MT] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [pay allowances] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [Vulcan bombers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press lines ("Hydrographic Ships - Hospital Ferries"; "Karg - update on PR line"; "2 Para Group", "Falkland Islands - Nuclear Weapons") ["we do not deny the capability but never ever confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.111 (Falkland Islands: 19 April) ["The vice is tightening. The Task Force is on course and on time"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.112 ("Falkland Islands - Haig Talks in Buneos Aires") ["Haig is 'flashing' a document to us which he has agreed with the Argentines"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Political, US support, Military, Economic,) ["The main stories come out of Buenos Aires with suggestions of the talks making little progress"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 109") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to President Banda of Malawi (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [thanks for support] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to John Cheek (Cheek's ideas about long term solution to Falklands problem) ["We shall give these very careful attention...since they come from an elected representative of the Islanders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO minute ("Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falklands Dispute") [summary of negotiations since 1963] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's Day, In the House: statements, Northern Ireland devolution bill, Haig talks) ["The aim remained to secure the peaceful withdrawal of the invading forces"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [2 PARA; Soviet surveillance; HMS Illustrious] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO press release (1130Z) (Pym message to Chairman of Organisation of American States) [welcomes sincere efforts of OAS to promote peaceful outcome] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Haig talks) ["We would not put a time limit on how long we were prepared to wait for Haig"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Haig talks, Task Force, UN resolution, Reagan call) ["If Haig's effort collapsed we would have to wait and see"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.114 (Falklands - ICRC) [Argentina has refused ICRC "request to send a delegation to the Falkland Islands to provide traditional humanitarian assistance"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.115 ("Falkland Islands - Ships Taken Up From Trade") [list] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.117 ("Falkland Islands") [Pym parliamentary answers on UN, evacuation of Islanders] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to Press Officers ("OAS and the Rio Treaty") ["Member states of the Rio Treaty cannot be obliged to take military action on behalf of another member state"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, Argentina, US, Military, Economic) ["The Sun suggested Cecil Parkinson warns that the Government will almost certainly fall from power if it backs down/Mail says Reagan's telephone call to you ... produced vigorous championing of our cause"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Lord Wrenbury (thanks for message of support) ["The last two weeks have been a long hard haul, as hopes for a peaceful solution rise and fall like the tide"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Lopez Portillo of Mexico message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [Lopez Portillo condemns use of force, but supports Argentine claim to Falklands] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Reception for success, President of Cameroon, Northern Ireland Bill, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Pym, Falkland Islands) [most recent proposals not apparently securing wishes of islanders] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.113 (1030Z) ("Haig/Argentine Proposals") [No.10 statement - "at first sight they do not meet the requirements strongly expressed by Parliament"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [no major Argentine vessel ... has breached the Maritime Exclusion Zone] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MT message to British Chambers of Commerce in Argentina (1230Z) (reply to their message) ["This situation is not of our seeking"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (EC foreign ministers, Cabinet, Haig talks) [Brussels; cabinet meeting; Argentinian proposals; mood in No.10] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Foreign Secretary remarks outside No.10 (1800Z) (update) ["we are doing our very best to achieve a diplomatic settlement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Panorama") [briefing for interview with Kee and Lindley] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, US and EEC support, Argentina, Military, Economic) ["Guardian says most backbenchers agree Falklanders cannot ultimately have the veto/Express says there was a mood of "no surrender" amongst Tory backbenchers"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statements (1100Z) (Falkands) [Sidewinder missiles, Stingray torpedoes; Argentine vessels in Port Stanley harbour] [these copies released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1100Z) (Falkands) [operation of Maritime Exclusion Zone] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (Falkand Islands) [Parliamentary questions and answers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Panorama, Monday 26 April") [request for briefing notes for MT's interview] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Falkland Islands: Non Use of Force") [Pym in Commons "said (inadvertently) 'I will exclude it so long as negotiations are in play'" - line to take] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to MT (views within the Parliamentary party on Falklands crisis) ["no surrender" group, pro-negotiations group, fears about "military disaster", pro-UN group, anti-violence group] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (President Ahidjo, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Meeting of Ministers, Pym Visit: US, Falkland Island opinions) ["it could not be gainsayed that the fleet would be continuing during this time thus increasing the pressure for a diplomatci solution"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MOD press briefings (1300Z, 1530Z) (MV Norland, Radio Paging, "Love Lines", Insurance) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym reply to Dick Douglas (1430Z) (Falkland Islands) ["I am doing everything that I humanly can to achieve a peaceful settlement but we have to be realistic"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Pym correction, Interim administration, Pym US Visit, Falkland Island opinions) ["The reality was that the Foreign Secretary did get mixed up and obviously got it wrong"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.121 ("Interim Administration") [line to take following Pym statement; try not to be drawn beyond restoration of British Administration remaining our objective] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MOD press briefings (1930Z, 1930Z) ("Sale of HMS Invincible to Australia", "Argentine Overflight of Task Force") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MOD minute (1955Z) ("Breach of MEZ") [ITN rang asking about possible breach; MOD not able to confirm reports] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Panorama") [further briefing for interview with Kee and Lindley] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Negotiations, Argentina, US, Military) ["Pym's reference to "interim administration" said to have caused anxiety among some Tory MPs"] [released 2013]

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