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PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Athens telegram 136 to FCO (1500Z) ("Falklands: The Greek Response") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig message to Francis Pym (1530Z) ("Falkland Islands Dispute") [Argentinian language on decolonisation] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 472 to FCO (1553Z) ("Haig's Statement") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ingham minute for Coles ("Needham - Falkland Islands Company") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bernard Ingham minute to John Coles ("Needham - Falkland Islands Company") [publicity around meeting - could arrange interview if desired] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1600Z) (MT-Ted Needham, Chairman of the Falkland Island Company) [account of conditions in the Falklands, and evacuation plan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 20th Meeting/82 (1600Z) (Operation Paraquet Rules of Engagement, Operation Sutton, Belize) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 20th Meeting/82 (1600Z) (Operation Paraquet Rules of Engagement, Operation Sutton, Belize) [full version declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 20th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1600Z) (Operation Paraquet Rules of Engagement, Operation Sutton, Belize) [Leach & Gillmore argument about ROEs for Operation Paraquet, especially in respect of enemy submarines] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chiefs of Staff directive to CINCFLEET COS 9/82 (Operation Sutton) [Planning Directive with appendix "Appreciation of the Options for Landing Operations in the Falkland Islands"] [declassified Oct 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 167 to FCO (1600Z) ("Argentine trade sanctions: Italian position") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1615Z) (Haig talks, Anderson tapes, Carrington) ["We said we were not spoiling for a fight; we sought a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1286 to FCO (1638Z) (Falklands: Galtieri's regime) [Eagleburger acknowledges it was "extremely unstable and difficult to make predictions about. But ... any successor regime ... would be worse"; Kissinger's view also] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1287 to FCO (1643Z) (Falklands: Haig's Statement) [Eagleburger concern at how US performance as an ally was being viewed in Britain] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1288 to FCO (1647Z) (Falklands: The Soviet Involvement) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 731 to UKE Washington (1715Z) ("Falkland Islands: New Formula for Paragraph 8") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Leon Brittan speech in Oxford (1900Z) ("The Falkland Operation: The Defence Costs in Perspective") ["there is no cash ceiling on the cost of the operation"]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Pym message for Haig (1901Z) ("Falkland Islands") [US guarantee] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Nott message for Haig (1943Z) (Argentine submarines operating in the maritime exclusion zone) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Clark memorandum for President Reagan ("Proposed Phone Call from President Galtieri of Argentina") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of conversation (2206Z) (Galtieri-Reagan) ["Galtieri did not raise much that was new ... a rousingly Argentine version of Western Hemisphere history"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of conversation (Reagan, President Galtieri) [worried man - original text with amendments] [declassified Jun 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House record of conversation (2353Z) (Reagan-Argentinian President Galtieri) ["Galtieri did not raise much that was new" - as transmitted to London 2353Z] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: President Reagan message for MT (2353Z) (conversation with Galtieri regarding the Falklands crisis) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2353Z) (account of Reagan's conversation with Galtieri) ["He said that the advance of your fleet and the blockade of the Islands were making his situation difficult"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2353Z) (account of Reagan's conversation with Galtieri) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: McFarlane note for National Security Adviser ("Galtieri call") [Galtieri perhaps trying to play Haig off against the President or practising "a little psychological warfare against Thatcher" by leaking it] [declassified Jun 2006]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA intelligence memorandum ("Falkland Islands dispute: economic impact") [sanctions imposed will have "minimal impact on the Argentine economy in the next 30 to 60 days"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("First Stoessel-Begin Meeting, Buckley Mission Follow-Up, UN Security Council on Attack on Jerusalem Mosque, Nicaragua") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: National Intelligence memorandum ("What Next in the Falklands? - Some Thoughts on the Tactical Problem") [likely seizure of South Georgia; possible landing points on East Falkland] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig letter for Pym (press stories and speculations regarding the crisis) [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig en route to Buenos Aires again) [White House-State Department in-fighting; Haig updates Reagan by telegram]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Review of Regional Economic Policy") ["arrangements and terms of reference"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Jenkin minute to MT (“Guangdong Power Project”) [proposed delegation to China, and co-operation with France and USA] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Bank of England record of conversation between Governor, Jeremy Morse & Robin Leigh-Pemberton (agenda for meeting with clearing banks) [East European indebtedness; taxation & the banks, etc] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th 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 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]

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