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Text 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Galtieri Easter message (Spanish original) ("Mensaje Presidencial a la grey católico del país con motivo de la Pascua") ["importa solo la nacion, porque esta en juego la soberania de la nacion"] [this text declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Note to Haig (warning to Junta) ["Warn him about the security of our people. We hold them fully responsible"] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (0030Z) (Galtieri, Costa Mendez, Ros, Haig, Enders, Walters) (Spanish original & transcript, English translation) [second meeting] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (0245Z) (US and Argentine officials excluding principals) (Spanish original & transcript, English translation) [meeting while Galtieri, Haig and others talked separately] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Haig peace proposals (0315Z) (as discussed in Buenos Aires; English and Spanish texts) [with side letters] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig message for MT (0645Z) (update) [returning to London on 12 April; some progress made in talks with Argentinians] published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Haig message to MT (0645Z) (returning to London 12 Apr with proposal following discussions with Argentine Government) ["I am sure you would agree that any military confrontation must be avoided at all costs until you have been able to consider this draft proposal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig message to MT (0645Z) (proposal arising from Haig's discussions with the Argentine Government) ["I am sure you would agree that any military confrontation must be avoided at all costs until you have been able to consider this draft proposal"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS(A)1 briefing for CDS for 14th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) (relevant papers, comment) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 14th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Exclusion Zone, Nuclear Matters) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 14th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, own forces, public relations, decisions required, nuclear matters, battle casualties, rules of engagement [for SSNs]) [Soviet ELINT and photo satellites over Argentina, Falklands, South Georgia and Ascension] [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: No.10 letter to FCO ("Belize: British Garrison") [MT's views on decision to retain British Garrison: "she hopes that we shall use this decision with the Americans"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pattison minute to Whitmore (arrangements for MT-Haig meeting) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Falkland Islands: Mr Haig's Visit of 12 April") [briefing] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Falkland Islands: Mr Haig's Visit of 12 April") [briefing on Haig's likely proposals] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit paper - SAPU(82)2 (speaking notes for Ministers) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to South Atlantic Presentation Unit ("South Atlantic Presentation Unit") [MT's comments on SAPU notes for Ministers] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: John Cheek (Falklands Legislative Council Member) letter to MT ("A possible future for the Falkland Islands after the withdrawal of Argentine forces") [Andorra-type solution] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 88 to FCO (1114Z) ("Falklands: President Figueiredo's Message") [message to Galtieri; "markedly different" from that sent to MT] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department press digest (US press 11 Apr) [New York Times account of Argentine view of Haig proposals - "Argentines taking a pessimistic view on Falkland crisis"; "Kirkpatrick says Falklands Accord is likely"] [released Mar 1993]
Text 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig shuttle leaves Buenos Aires) [Haig tells Reagan time for him to intervene with MT has not yet arrived]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram for President Reagan (1124Z) (talks with Galtieri) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym interview for BBC's World This Weekend (c1200Z) (Haig's latest proposals) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes (1400Z) (Spanish original, transcript and English translation) [1. Analisis de MALVINAS; 2. Analisis di mision secreta a CUBA; 3. Informe Ministro RR.EE; 4. Resolucion Comite Militar - "The US has done nothing for Argentina. Defends Mrs Thatcher"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London telegram to State Department (1438Z) ("Conflicting reports on the possibility of a Red Cross opinion survey in the Falklands") [stories that some islanders want evacuation] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD draft paper for OD(SA) ("Removal of Nuclear Weapons from the Task Group") [OD(SA)(82) 6 - Chiefs of Staff recommend consolidating in the carriers but not removing the weapons] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS(A)1 note for CDS ("Nuclear Matters") [three technical advisers available at Chiefs of Staff meeting; Beetham likely to oppose Special Operations paper] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 15th Meeting/82 (1530Z) (nuclear matters) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 88 to FCO (1530Z) ("President Figueiredo's Message") [message from Brazilian president to Galtieri] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1230 to FCO (1540Z) ("Falklands: Soviet-Argentinian Collusion") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to Haig (1540Z) (maritime exclusion zone) ["Argentina is the aggressor ... The right way to prevent naval incidents is therefore for Argentina to remove all her naval vessels from the MEZ"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 94 to FCO (1643Z) ("British Interests Section in Buenos Aires") [letter received by safe hand from BIS; Argentine authorities presently "are trying to protect all things British" in their country, but this could "change rapidly once the British fleet is in the area"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 95 to FCO (1644Z) ("Royal Marines") [whereabouts of captured Royal Marines unclear] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Montevideo telegram to MODUK (1735Z) ("Points not yet covered by your previous signals") [information on Argentine equipment deployed, from press and 'travellers'] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government of Peru message to Argentina and the UK (proposing a 72-hour truce) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 79 to FCO (1800Z) ("Falklands") [Peru urges truce] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("OD(SA) Meeting: 11 April") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 4th (1800Z) (Situation in the South Atlantic) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1231 to FCO (1805Z) ("Message to Haig") [the message has been passed to Haig on his plane] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1234 to FCO (1835Z) ("Falklands: Mrs Kirkpatrick") [Kirkpatrick interviewed on US television; Argentine invasion not aggression if they already owned the islands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 89 to FCO (2012Z) ("Falklands") [Brazilian air force Mirages forced Cuban plane carrying returning Ambassador to land in Brasilia following airspace violation] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: ARGE Geneva telegram 1061 to MFA (received 2047Z) (British media coverage) (Spanish original) [Pym on Weekend World] [declassified ?2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Ministry of Foreign Affairs memorandum for Haig ("Puntos Básicos de la posición Argentina entregados al Secretario General Haig antes de partir para Londres el 11 de abril 1982") (Spanish original, with State Department translation & annotation) [Five Points given to Haig as he departed] [declassified ?2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Eagleburger telegram for Haig (2110Z) ("The Falklands Dispute: The Soviet and Cuban Angle") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department paper for Haig (2315Z) ("Talking Points - Thatcher") ["brutally frank with Galtieri ... (h)e is not committed to fight - though the Navy is itching for battle"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 692 to FCO (2330Z) ("Economic Measures Against Argentina") [UK urges Japan to take action against Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department memorandum to Eagleburger ("UK request for additional fuel") [use of US base on Ascension Island] [published 2015]
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