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PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO briefing for Pym (meeting with Haig on 8 Apr) [as copied to Nott - speaking note; Argentine vulnerability to economic/financial pressure; UN; international reaction; economic measures against Argentina; Argentine scope for retaliation; OAS; Rio Treaty] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: FCO letter to No.10 (“Gibraltar: effect of the Falklands crisis”) [MT notes on JIC paper that British “military capability on Gibraltar is being reviewed - URGENTLY". We must take precautions”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Falklands/Hungary: Bank of England record of phone conversation between Governor and Fritz Leutwiler (morning) (“The Governor’s conversation with Leutwiler, on Hungary and Argentina”) [BIS second tranche; Leutwiler "to make appropriate telephone calls" to Swiss banks doing business with Argentina] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Haig statement arriving in London (c1300Z) (defines purpose) ["seeking to be of assistance solving the crisis"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Press Minor Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: USICA morning digest (1300Z) (Haig Mission) ["peace dash"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 10th Meeting/82 (1300Z) (Operation Corporate, Nuclear Depth Bombs, Falkland Islands think tank) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (1330Z) (MT, Sir John King & Mr. Alex Dibbs, Lord Cockfield, Alan Wheatley of Price Waterhouse) ["British Airways": Price Waterhouse report; remit of Chairman & BA Board; remedial measures to address BA financial crisis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 310 to FCO (1340Z) ("Falklands: German press comment") [still dominates press; most commentators are clear about British resolve] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Defence Intelligence Agency) Falklands: US Defense Attaché's Office in UK signal to Defense Intelligence Agency (1354Z) ("Senior Royal Navy Views on Current Falkland Island Issue") [Leach's warning about MEZ] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKDIS Geneva telegram 25 to FCO (1350Z) ("Falkland Islands") ["highly satisfactory debate" in plenary session; Argentina drew no support from non-aligned] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 676 to UKE Washington (1355Z) ("Falkland Islands: Antarctic Dimension") [possible Argentine action against British personnel in Antarctic Treaty area; please raise with US] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 175 to FCO (1400Z) ("Falklands") [meeting with Foreign Minister, urging maximum pressure on Argentina and earliest consideration of MT letter to Suzuki] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 311 to FCO (1415Z) ("The Falklands") [BRITDEFAT given confidential information from FRG DA in Buenos Aires; German attaches not under as close observation as the American] [declassified Jun 2017]
Text 82 Apr 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415Z)
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 181 to FCO (1435Z) ("Falkland Islands MEZ: Soviet attitude") [lengthy questions by Soviets, who claimed Article 51 did not apply in this case] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 184 to FCO (1435Z) ("Falkland Islands: Soviet treatment") [neither UKE Moscow nor FRGE see evidence of Bonn view that Soviets campaigning to suggest US distancing itself from UK over Falklands] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lewin letter to Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff ("Questions to be asked of the US Armed Forces") [Argentine strength; contrasts "forthright attitude" of US media with that of the Reagan Administration] [declassified Sep 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Papers circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 11th and 12th/Meetings 82 of COS (1500Z, 0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Operation Paraquet (99/742/1), Falkland Islands Landing Operations (96/742/1)) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 95/742/1 (1500Z) ("Draft Directive to CINCFLEET - Military Appreciation") [for consideration at 11th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 96/742/1 (1500Z) ("Military Appreciation - Landing Operations") [for consideration at 12th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 11th Meeting/82 (1500Z) (Operation Corporate, Amphibious Operations against South Georgia and Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 11th Meeting/82 (1500Z) (Operation Corporate, Amphibious Operations against South Georgia and Falkland Islands) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 11th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1500Z) (amphibious operations against South Georgia and the Falklands, Psyops) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 185 to FCO (1500Z) ("Falkland Islands: Soviet attitude") [Soviet media giving conflicting signals - Izvestia sees militarism, Pravda sees British interest in peaceful solution; TASS talks of British hypocrisy] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram 12065 to State Department (1525Z) ("Argentine establishes war zone, calls up reservists") [200 mile radius around the islands] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: USE Paris telegram 12489 to State Department (1528Z) ("France cuts off deliveries of arms to Argentina") [applies to current contracts halting sale of Super Etendards] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Lopez Portillo of Mexico (1529Z) (invasion of the islands) [appeal for help bringing home to Argentine government the seriousness of its actions] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to MODUK (1535Z) ("Operations Corporate") [request permission for Canberra and Elk to sail as soon as ready] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 164 to FCO (1542Z) ("Falkland Islands and ICRC") [informal approach in absence of declaration of war] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 328 to FCO (1555Z) ("EC/Argentina") [pressing for positive decisions in EC tomorrow; French stress strong political support but EC solidarity crucial also] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (1600Z) (Pym-Haig) [Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London record of conversation (1600Z) (Haig, Pym) [Falkland Islands crisis] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Bridgetown telegram 101 to FCO (1615Z) ("President Reagan's Meeting of Caribbean Leaders") [Ramphal said he had urged Eastern Caribbean leaders to make it clear to Reagan that "more than an 'even handed' attitude ... was desirable"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 74 to FCO (1630Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Peruvian Foreign Minister - need to help Argentinians withdraw without losing face] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands/Argentina: USE Rome telegram 8716 to State Department (1634Z) ("The Falkland Islands: Beagle Channel connection") [Chilean diplomat in Rome states Costa Mendez asked Chile for support over Falklands, offering to be "much more forthcoming" in Beagle negotiations] [declassified Nov 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 2 to FCO (1700Z via Berne) ("Atmosphere in Buenos Aires") ["great uncertainty and concern"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 99 to FCO (1700Z) ("Irish Republic and the Falklands") [Irish attitudes: cherishing "the role of mediator"; large Irish-Argentine community; echoes of Ulster issue "set the Irish teeth on edge"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodchild minute for Coles ("Dinner for the Hon. Alexander M. Haig: List of Guests") [plus seating plan] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key 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]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner meeting: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands - MT annotations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Key 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]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1700Z pre-dinner) (MT, Haig) [Falkland Islands Crisis] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1700Z) ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [corrected memcon; redacted] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 430 to FCO (1710Z) ("Maritime Exclusion Zone") [recommend informing President of Security Council; draft letter] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 680 to UKE Washington (1718Z) ("Use of US facilities on Ascension Island") [would like Wideawake airfield to operate on 24 hour basis to allow for maritime reconnaissance by Nimrods] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department telegram 94151 to Haig (1705Z) ("Highlights of April 8 ABC Good Morning America") [Argentina announces military zone of 200 mile radius around the islands; Britain pinning its hopes on US mediation] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department telegram 94153 to Haig (1707Z) ("Highlights of April 8 CBS Morning News") [Haig en route to London] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 90 to FCO (1715Z) ("Falklands: Chilean press comment") [British Embassy statement extensively reported; Chilean media taking pro-Argentina line, but MFA stance remains strictly neutral] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO guidance telegram 54 to certain missions (1730Z) ("Falkland Islands: legal position on sovereignty") ["You should not ... get involved in arguments about the merits of our legal position on sovereignty .... the British title to the Falklands is a prescriptive title, based on 149 years of open, continuous, effective and peaceful possession"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department telegram 94228 to Haig (1811Z) ("Remaining articles from morning papers") [Kirkpatrick attacked for attending Argentine Embassy dinner on night of invasion] [released Mar 1993]

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