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Date range: 20 Mar 198215 Jun 1982.

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PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 87 to FCO (2200Z) (South Georgia) [Blanco confirms some of Davidoff's staff left at Leith] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chiefs of Staff Duty Officer report (events 19-22 March 1982) [account of the landing on South Georgia and British response so far] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Director of Naval Operations minute for First Sea Lord ("Illegal landing on South Georgia by Argentine party 20 March 1982") [including chronology of events detailing role of ministers] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("President's Visit") [response to Deaver; arrangements for Reagan's speech; instructions to the US Administration] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Reagan") [further details and queries about programme for Reagan's visit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters note to Gow ("Comments on Economics of 'The Times'") ["Here is a little note on what I think is wrong with the economics of The Times"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow notes ("Home Affairs Committee") [Gow notes on Whitelaw's appearance at Conservative Home Affairs Committee] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Prime Minister Martens of Belgium letter to MT (suggested agenda for European Council meeting) [economic situation, relations with US and Japan, EC budget, Poland, Afghanistan, Middle East] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Social Security: MT letter to Michael Foot (value of retirement pension) ["the Government commitment is to price protect retirement pensions...we are committed to go beyond this only in terms of the restoration of the earnings shortfall in 1978"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Sheila Kennedy (MT sorry to hear that Mrs Kennedy's son has gone missing) ["When my own son, Mark, went missing in January, it was terrible"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Ministry of Agriculture brief for European Council, Brussels, 29/30 March 1982 - EHG(B)(82)10 (Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Jack Straw MP letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (apparent inaccuracies in Budget speech) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee - Matters for Decision") [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Fowler minute to MT (appointment of a special adviser) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell letter to Gow (Northern Ireland Assembly) [designed as Ulster tier of Anglo-Irish Council][declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nott PS letter to No.10 (British Aerospace run down) [“seem likely to blame the closures on a reducing defence workload for their Aircraft Group”] [declassified 2014]
Text 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [inaccuracies of unemployment report; Hoskyns agrees with Walters on BA report][released 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Schmidt to MT (Anglo-German summit) [message of thanks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (1200Z) (MT, Indira Gandhi, Carrington, Hurd, Thomson, Wade-Gery, Seyid Muhammad) [“Record of Plenary Talks”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (“BL’s future structure”) [restructuring and privatisation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Conference of Chief Probation Officers letter to MT ("Law & Order Debate: House of Commons 25 March") [supports Government strategy on law and order] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Telecommunications policy”) [transition to privatisation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Invergordon smelter: new power contract”) [future of the smelter] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Mar 22 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Message to electors of Glasgow Hillhead (by-election)
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: Fowler minute to MT ("Manpower and Efficiency in the National Health Service") ["latest estimates... I attach a draft PQ and answer] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation (“Mackworth-Young’s message from Moscow”) [Soviet State Bank admits hard currency problems; felt threatened by US] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Gordon Wilson MP (world oil prices) ["[we] will all benefit from lower oil prices through the consequent reduction in inflation and increase in real income"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: MT letter to John Silkin MP (UN General Assembly Second Special Session on Disarmament) [MT attendance/speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo 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 Mar 22 Mo 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 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Law of the Sea Conference: Status Report, Nicaragua's Call for Security Council Meeting, West Bank Violence") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting from 1 April 1918) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Nott PS ("Germany: Local Overseas Allowance") [MT changes mind over request for an OD discussion, following clarification of how the allowances work] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: UKHC Kuala Lumpur telegram 144 to FCO (0410Z) ("Malaysian Trade Discrimination") ['When I saw Senator Daim I asked him how much longer we must expect to go on suffering the Prime Minister's directive'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 39 to Port Stanley (2310Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [need to know whether Argentinians have complied with your instructions] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (Security Commission report & review of Security and Intelligence Services) [launched in wake of spy allegations against MI5 Director General: cover letter only, for record of conversation on 17 March] [released Dec 2014]
Text 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to MODUK (0327Z) (assesses pattern of Argentine action) ["Argentina has been flexing her muscles over the sovereignty of the dependencies"; imprudent to regard Davidoff as just a commercial contractor failing to obtain the required authorisation; "has all the trappings of a cunning plot"] [declassified Aug 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMS Endurance signal to MODUK (0327Z) (Davidoff landing party) [background information "you may wish to consider ... before issuing my instructions" for actions on arrival at Leith] [declassified Aug 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Whitelaw silences his Tory critics” [fighting defence of his record at Conservative backbench committee]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Argentines hoist a flag on Falklands” [South Georgia incident - FCO statement, sceptical of Argentine official involvement]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Press Major Commentary (Sun) “Falklands invaded by rebels” [Argentine flag raised on "remote isle of Grytviken (population 250)"]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Law & Order; Other Crime; London Transport ... Falkland Islands) ["FT says 50 scrap metal merchants land and hoist Argentine flag; Guardian sees it as a comic opera episode but we haven't heard the last of it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: IRN Radio interview with Sir John Biggs-Davison (0712Z) (South Georgia incident) [wants formal protest at Argentine aggression; oil wealth; Junta looking for distractions] [this copy released 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Press Minor Commentary (South West Atlantic Group) “Press release from the South West Atlantic Group (SWAG)” [welcomes strong reaction in Parliament yesterday to South Georgia incident; urges again government to reconsider withdrawal of HMS Endurance]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Gow minute for MT (Prior’s devolution proposals) [“doomed to failure”] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Gow minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Gow comments on Prior's proposals for devolution] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Ingham minute to MT ("President Reagan's Visit - Media") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (meeting of ministers, Algerian MPs, Indo-British Association) [released 2013]

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