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Showing items 1 - 135 of 135. Subject: Defence (Falklands). Date range: 20 Mar 1982 – 15 Jun 1982. Importance level: 1-Key.
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82 Mar 20 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Governor Falklands flash telegram to FCO (1125Z) ("Illegal Landing on S. Georgia") ["shots fired Argentine flag hoisted notices in English changed to Spanish"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) | Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.2"M"/82 (c2100Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [Costa Mendez to play for time with the British; reciprocity to be sought from US between Nicaragua & Malvinas issues] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina" - MT copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) | Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.3"M"/82 (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to bring forward planning to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 25 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO telegram 72 to UKE Buenos Aires (2030Z) ("South Georgia") [compromise proposal to regularise presence of Argentine party at Leith - "ultimate effort of goodwill"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) | Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.4"M"/82 (c2215Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 110 to FCO (1400Z) ("South Georgia") ["...growing impression that Costa Mendez has been less than honest with me and that, in fact, the Argentines have been playing us along"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO telegram 98 to UKE Tel Aviv (for Carrington PS) (2120Z) ("South Georgia") [two reports from secret sources of Argentine intentions; Anaya briefing to naval staff on 28 March saying incident was not contrived but had come "at a wonderful time"] [declassified Mar 2016] |
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82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Acting Chief of Defence Staff briefing for Nott (?before 1700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [updated military options before OD tomorrow; plus draft and criticism of it as too negative] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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82 Mar 31 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentine invasion learned to be imminent - likely to be Friday; MT evening meeting at her room in House of Commons |
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82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (2025Z) (intelligence reports Argentine navy preparing to invade) [MT asks Reagan to intervene with Galtieri] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (1600Z) (will contact Galtieri) [declassified 2000] |
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82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (1600Z) (response to her appeal for assistance) [will attempt to persuade Argentina not to take military action] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO telegram 48 to Port Stanley (1825Z) ("Argentine Action Against the Falkland Islands") ["We now have reliable evidence that an Argentine task force will gather off Cape Pembroke early tomorrow morning ... You (and Buenos Aires) will wish to make your dispositions accordingly"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: NSC briefing for President Reagan ("Suggested Talking Points for Telephone Call to President Galtieri") ["Maggie is a very determined woman .... The use of force by anyone will be met by force on her part"] [published 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentina invaded the islands |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Argentina invades the Falklands [memoirs extract] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) | Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency record of Reagan-Galtieri phone conversation (0034-0114Z) (Spanish original & transcript, with English translation) [Reagan fails to persuade Galtieri not to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013; this copy 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO note for the record (c0100Z) ("Points arising from Ministers' discussion at No.10") ["as reported by Mr Ure" - decisions made] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (0245Z) (Reagan phone call to Galtieri) [just spoken with Galtieri: "he left me with the clear impression that he has embarked on a course of armed conflict"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: President Reagan letter for MT (0245Z) (his conversation with Galtieri: situation in the Falklands) [published 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (State Department) | Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0304Z) ("UK-Argentine confrontation - Secretary calls in Argentine Ambassador") [if force used "we will have to side with the British"] [declassified 2001] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (State Department) | Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0437Z) ("President's conversation with Argentine President") [use of force "would gravely compromise US-Argentine relations"] [declassified 2002] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: The Political Costs") ["hard to persuade people that the game was worth the candle"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Weston minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: the political costs") [Richard Luce's copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: FCO note (c1200Z) ("Falklands") [British Antarctic Survey ship RSS Bransfield intercepts Falkland Island radio saying that 200 troops have landed: "We must accept this as confirmation of an Argentine landing"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 15th (1830Z) (Falkland Islands) [decision to despatch Task Force] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Falklands: Hailsham diary (Argentina invaded the islands) ["Cecil Parkinson told me he was surprised at the invasion!!! He had been at the meetings y'day. ... One only (not me) for staying in port"] [released 2011] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: UN SCR 502 demanding Argentine withdrawal |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1019Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1019Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Multimedia | ★★★★ | John Nott | HC S: (1245Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Gow notes (1330Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Gow notes (1330Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [transcript of Gow's notes] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1700Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2100Z?) (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 4 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Defence Staff briefing for Chief of Defence Staff ("The Falkland Islands Invasion") [update prepared for Lewin on his return from New Zealand] [declassified Feb 2018] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: FCO Ministers resigned, Pym new Foreign Secretary; Task Force sailed |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “We Are All Falklanders Now” [leading article urging Carrington's resignation] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1130Z) (MT-Falklands Governor Rex Hunt-Major Norman-Major Noott) [Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT note to ?Gow (appointment of new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary) ["It was Francis or George Younger...I realise your worries"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Lewin minute for Nott (afternoon) ("Falkland Islands: military appreciation") [military options reflecting views of Chiefs of Staff; rejected invasion of Tierra del Fuego as suggested by Chileans] [declassified Feb 2018] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for ITN (1630Z) (Falklands) |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (c1640Z) (Falklands) |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (1640Z) (Falklands) [film] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 174 to FCO (1326Z) ("Falklands and Time Scale of Argentine Intentions") ["we refused to face the fact that our encouragement of total intransigence from the Islanders involved a physical risk to them"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT notes made during conversation with Macmillan (c1500Z) (advice on handling the crisis) [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to world leaders (1846Z) ("Falkland Islands: economic measures against Argentina") [urges support for measures to bring Argentina to act on Security Council resolution] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 7 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (further reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation; Labour and SDP reactions) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (State Department) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Vernon Walters (1026Z) ("Falklands Dispute") ["Brits in warlike mood - high strung, unpredictable … UK probably wants big sea battle to give Thatcher a 'victory' … Must stop their fleet"] [declassified 2001] |
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82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (State Department) | Falklands: USE London to State Dept (1700Z) ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [MT: "impossible to be neutral in the face of unprovoked aggression"] [declassified 2009] |
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82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (US decision to launch mediation; Haig's first visit to London) [MT: "Interim authority? - to do what?"] |
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82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Reagan (0131Z) ("Memo to the President: discussions in London") ["The Prime Minister has the bit between her teeth"] [declassified 2000] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0830-1000Z) (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1110Z) (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1655Z) (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig shuttle back in London) [MT: "the fleet must steam on!"] |
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82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0815Z) (MT-Haig) [discussion of further Argentine demands; Argentina moving closer to USSR; concerns about UK public opinion] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Robilliard note to MT ("Constituency Day Friday 21 May 1982") [MT would rather not agree to operate forklift at Michael Gerson Ltd. event given Falklands situation; "unless it has all been resolved by then"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 14 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1335Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 14 We | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
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82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of first call: dispute over British use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1900Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of second call: further discussion of UK use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig in Buenos Aires again) [Haig: "a charade ... a f***ing charade - these guys are diddling me"] |
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82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1930-1934Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan does "not think [MT] should be asked to go any further" in order to reach compromise] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (2000Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Nott) ["it was decided that authority should be given to the SSNs to attack any Argentine naval warships which entered the Maritime Exclusion Zone"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (evening) (MT-Parsons) [possible UN resolution requiring UK Task Force to "drop anchor, to turn around, to hold off as it were, which obviously we couldn't accept"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 21 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | 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] |
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82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: US draft of peace agreement (as of 23rd April) [Haig proposals delivered via Pym & unacceptable to MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 15th (1715Z) (Diplomatic and Military Situation) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 25 (Falkland Islands: Washington Discussion with Mr Haig) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 24 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: A crisis in the War Cabinet and the recapture of South Georgia [memoirs extract] |
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82 Apr 25 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: South Georgia recaptured |
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82 Apr 25 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia ("Rejoice") |
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82 Apr 25 Su | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia ("Rejoice") [film] |
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82 Apr 25 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Nott statement (recapture of South Georgia) ["The White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack"; annotated by MT] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] (recapture of South Georgia) [audio] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands) |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (1322Z) (apparent rejection by Argentina of latest peace proposals) ["I cannot conceal from you how deeply let down [we] would feel if under these circumstances the U.S. were not now to give us its full support"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: State Department paper for NSC meeting ("Next Steps on Falklands") [range of possible measures] [declassified 2002] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (Argentina rejects US plan) (extract) [will make clear UK "worked with us in good faith", acting on self-defence] [declassified 1993] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [US "tilt" towards UK] [with MT annotations] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan message to MT (2218Z) (Argentina rejects US peace proposal) [Argentina's refusal "to negotiate in good faith [has] made it necessary for the United States to adopt a new posture toward Buenos Aires"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: US `tilt’ in favour of Britain; Total Exclusion Zone put in force |
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82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011] |
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82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 2 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract] |
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82 May 2 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: General Belgrano torpedoed by HMS Conqueror (1857Z); cruiser sank with 321 dead |
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82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: HMS Conqueror Report of Proceedings (1857Z) [extract covering 2 May, including attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2006] |
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82 May 4 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: HMS Sheffield hit by Argentine missile |
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82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2036Z) (MT proposes US enact complete ban on imports from Argentina to US) ["with so many young lives at risk - British and Argentine - I feel that we must make a supreme effort to prevent a major military clash"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: US National Security Adviser memo for Reagan ("PM Thatcher's Reply on your Falklands Demarche") ["In a word, Maggie accepts the proposal"] [declassified 2006] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT draft letter to Reagan (MT: "The letter to Reagan that was never sent...") [US proposals not "faithful to the basic principles we must protect"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 8 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | 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] |
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82 May 14 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD34) ("U.S. Actions in the South Atlantic Crisis") [measures arising from 30 Apr tilt] [declassified 1990] |
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82 May 16 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1335Z) (MT-Italian Foreign Minister Colombo) [difficulties for Italian government in continuing sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [lunch conversation: Middle East, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands & the Falklands War, East-West relations] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | U.K. Government | Falklands: British ultimatum to Argentina (“The Falkland Islands: Negotiations for a peaceful settlement”) |
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82 May 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 May 20 Th | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
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82 May 21 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: British Forces landed at San Carlos Bay |
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82 May 25 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Italy/Falklands: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Italy and the Falklands") [detailed analysis of decision not to renew economic sanctions] [declassified Jan 2010] |
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82 May 30 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (possible delivery by France of Exocets to Peru) ["If it became known...that France was now releasing weapons to Peru that would certainly be passed to Argentina for use against us...this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 30 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (French supply of Exocet missiles to Peru; Peru passing Exocets on to Argentina) [if French supply of Exocets became publicly known "this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2230Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (2300-2325Z) (Reagan-MT) [President calls MT urging ceasefire plan] [declassified 2016] |
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82 May 31 Mo | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire) |
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82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT draft telegram to Galtieri (coming Battle for Port Stanley) ["On my side, grief will be tempered by the knowledge that these men died for freedom, justice, and the rule of law. And on your side? Only you can answer that question"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (“conversation between Heads of Delegation on the evening of Friday, 4 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 8 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Reagan Public Papers | Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament (1100Z) [external link] |
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82 Jun 10 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Pattison minute to MT (British casualties on Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram: heated argument between Nott and Fieldhouse) ["C in C Fleet would like to leave open the idea that the casualty figures were considerably higher...this would help to confuse the Argentines"; "argument became an issue of confidence between the two men"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 12 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: No.10 note to MT (HMS Glamorgan struck by suspected EXOCET missile) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Argentine surrender |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: (1114Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT notes of telephone conversation (2000Z) (MT receives news from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: (2115Z) [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT notes for Commons speech on Argentine surrender (2115Z) (report from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Major General Moore message (0120Z) (surrender of Argentine forces in Port Stanley) ["The Falkland Islands are once more under the Government desired by their inhabitants. God Save The Queen"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
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