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76 Mar 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram 1751 to State Department (2105Z) ("Ambassador's conversation with Admiral Massera") [likely future coup; US Ambassador believes best to continue with plans to be out of the country to avoid apparent US complicity] [declassified May 2018]
76 Jun 10 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: State Department memcon (1110-1215Z) (Kissinger, Guzzetti) [Green light in the dirty war; Falklands dispute; Kissinger - “If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly. But you should get back quickly to normal procedures”] [published 2015]
77 Sep 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: State Department memcon (1300Z) (President Carter, President Videla) [non-proliferation; human rights] [published 2015]
79 Jan 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ted Rowlands MP-Falklands Councillors) [Southern Thule incident, maritime co-operation with Argentia, internal Falklands matters] [declassified 2012]
79 May 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
79 Jun 13 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NATO: No.10 conversation record (MT-SACEUR General Haig) [farewell call - MT's election "a shot in the arm for NATO"] [declassified Dec 2018]
79 Sep 1 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO paper for OD ("Falkland Islands") [draft Carrington paper] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (Ridley, Blanco) [Argentine aide-memoire: future of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
79 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Pym memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 30 (Future United Kingdom Defence Policy) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [enclosing advance copy of Carrington paper for OD] [declassified 2012]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 31 (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [draft paper for OD Committee on the Falklands; heavily annotated by MT] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Duggan minute to Harding ("Argentine Threat to the Falkland Islands: draft JIC Assessment") [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Carless despatch to FCO ("Subversion, Repression and Human Rights in Argentina") [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram to UKE Buenos Aires ("Argentine Threat to the Falkland Islands and Dependencies") [declassified 2012]
79 Dec 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Duggan minute to Fearn and Harding ("Falkland Islands: Examples of Shared Sovereignty") [other examples of shared sovereignty; comparison to Falklands situation] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 11 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Fearn briefing for Ridley ("First Call on Minister of State by Argentine Ambassador: Monday, 14 January, 3:30 PM") [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute ("Falkland Islands: Points Arising from Mr Ridley's Dinner on 16 January") [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 22 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute ("Falkland Islands: Points Arising from Mr Ridley's Dinner on 16 January") [declassified 2012]
80 Feb 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Argentina: FCO letter to No.10 ("Argentina") [visit to the UK of Argentine Minister of the Economy] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 23 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Parker note for Fearn (Adrian Monk's biography) [declassified 2012]
80 Apr 28 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO briefing for Ridley ("Falklands: Anglo-Argentinian talks in (New York, 28-30 April 1980)") [full set of briefs] [declassified 2012]
80 Apr 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Ambassador Bowdler) [State Department talks on Falklands; Central America; Jamaica; Caribbean security; Belize] [declassified 2012]
80 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: CIA intelligence assessment ("Peru: Prospects for Democracy") [positive trends promise successful end to military rule, but remaining threat of instability and military readiness to intervene] [declassified 2018]
80 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	United Nations: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Official visit by the United Nations Secretary-General, 20-23 May 1980”) [global issues] [declassified 2012]
80 Jun 11 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: MT letter to Martínez de Hoz (thanks for lovely present) ["very much enjoyed our meeting ... sorry that it was so short"] [released 2011]
80 Aug 29 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO briefing for Ridley ("Geneva: Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
80 Aug 29 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Duggan minute to Harding ("Geneva: Falkland Islands") [briefing for Nick Ridley for talks with Cavandoli] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKA Buenos Aires despatch to Carrington ("A New Look at Argentina") [assessment of situation in Argentina and Anglo-Argentina relations] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires letter to FCO (secret ministerial meeting in Geneva) [Cavandoli "bubbling with pleasure"] [declassified 2010]
80 Sep 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Argentine Foreign Minister Pastor speech to the UN General Assembly (disarmament, peace and development, Middle East, Southern Africa, the Falklands) [in file declassified 2012]
80 Sep 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-Foreign Minister Pastor of Argentina) [Anglo-Argentine relations, Argentina and Brazil, human rights] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (CIA)	Argentina: State Department memcon (Muskie-Argentine FM Pastor) [Bolivian coup; Pastor calls US-Argentina relations "mainly a one way street with his country on the losing end"] [declassified 2018]
80 Nov 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires letter to Ridley's PS (Ridley's meeting with Cavandoli: Argentina/Falklands) [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 22 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO steering brief ("Visit by Mr Ridley to the Falkland Islands: 22-29 November 1980") [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 29 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of Nick Ridley's visit to the Falkland Islands (Third Session with Councillors) [negotiations over future of the Falklands and sovereignty] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Harding, Cuban Ambassador) [British policy towards Latin America] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 43rd (New Zealand Butter, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg European Council, etc) [declassified 2010]
80 Dec 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Falklands Governor Rex Hunt despatch to Carrington ("Visit of the Honourable Nicholas Ridley, M.P. Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to the Falkland Islands: 22-29 November, 1980") [account of Ridley's second visit] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(81) 1st (Falkland Islands, Arms Supplies to Iran and Iraq) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February 1981") [complete set] [released Dec 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Argentine President-designate Viola) ["Argentina will cooperate in any effort to contain Communism and promote freedom"; Reagan promises "no public scoldings and lectures" on human rights; nuclear non-proliferation] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Argentina: Presidential Daily Brief ("Argentina: President-Designate Viola") ["a strong and effective leader"; importance of his meeting with you "to strengthen his hand against opponents both inside and outside the military"] [declassified 2016]
81 Mar 26 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Peru: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Prime Minister of Peru") [objectives to advance commercial interests, strengthen political relations, encourage helpful Peruvian stance on international issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Apr 10 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram 2645 to State Department (1915Z) ("Army Chief of Staff Meyer's visit to Argentina: a substantive and public relations success") [Galtieri pleasure expressed to US Ambassador - "all past differences with the US can be put behind the two governments as relations enter a constructive phase"] [declassified Apr 2017]
81 Apr 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires letter to FCO ("Argentine Press Comment on the Falklands") [article from La Prensa* ] [declassified 2012]*
81 May 17 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott) ["Keith Speed"; Speed's critical remarks on the defence programme] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Defence: First Sea Lord minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") ["I am confident that you will at least spare two minutes to read this note...before you and your Cabinet colleagues consider a proposition to substantially dismantle the Navy"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Armstrong) ["Defence Programme"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: State Department research paper ("Argentina: a new President and old problems") [assessment of Viola; his civilian ties; poor relationship with Galtieri] [declassified 2017]

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