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82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 487 to FCO (0115Z) ("Falklands: Non-Aligned Movement") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1329 to FCO (0238Z) ("Falklands: Argentine Request for Satellite Coverage") [Eagleburger gives UKE the State Department line for the press] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Haig message for Pym (0404Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department (0519Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing ("Falkland Islands Task Force: LOA") [pay rates; HMS Superb; Five Brigade; alleged Air Exclusion Zone] [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Economic, Military, Political) ["The main theme today is of hopes rising for a settlement because of negotiations going on in Buenos Aires. / Times and Mail say Haig has told Galtieri that if it comes to a military showdown USA will back Britain"] [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: Overnight Developments) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 163 to FCO (0800Z) ("Falkland Islands: The Australian Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: President Reagan memorandum for Eagleburger (0806Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 22nd Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Scope for Delaying Falklands Landing Operations, Chile, Gibraltar) [full version declassified Aug 2017]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 22nd Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Scope for Delaying Falklands Landing Operations, Chile, Gibraltar) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO notes of 22nd Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) (Intelligence, Task Force progress, Public Relations) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Warren-Gash minute to FCO Defence Department ("Argentine request for satellite coverage of Falkland Islands ('LANDSAT')") [MOD finally deciding Argentinians would derive little benefit from images of the Falklands, but images of the Task Force would be "highly damaging"] [declassified Jun 2017]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to Pym PS ("Falkland Islands") [legal advice on whether public announcement is necessary before British Forces engage Argentine Forces] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Views of Inhabitants") [debriefing of Falklands officials on their return to the UK] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Jackling minute for Nott PS ("Falkland Islands") [FCO lawyers think no further warning to Argentinians necessary but Naval Staff would prefer it should be made, to demonstrate resolve; draft attached; FCO favour delaying until "while the Haig negotiations are in a delicate and decisive phase"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Nott minute to MT ("Operation Corporate") [contingency plan in case of failure of Haig's diplomatic mission to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 168 to FCO (0935Z) ("Falkland Islands Argentine mission") [Argentinian request for Italian intercession][declassified* Dec 2012]*
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 168 to FCO (0935Z) ("Falkland Islands: Argentine Mission") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 202 to FCO (1000Z) ("Falklands: Soviet Attitude") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [requisitioning ships, exclusion zones, etc] [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: USE Bonn telegram to State Department (1102Z) ("Genscher on Falklands dispute") ["Western alliance could not afford to have the US effort fail. It would be a great prestige victory for the Soviets"] [declassified 2001]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 203 to FCO (1146Z) ("Falklands: Soviet Attitude") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Jonathan Warrender account of lunch at Chequers (1200Z) ["the impressions both the Thatchers made that day remain vivid"] [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Multimedia	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Jonathan Warrender painting of Chequers [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 21 to BIS Buenos Aires (1205Z) ("Missing Journalists") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Haig message for Pym (1345Z) (negotiations with Argentina: Costa Mendez's proposals) [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 144 to FCO (1420Z) (arrival of marines and scientific personnel from South Georgia) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Haig message to Pym (1445Z) (Argentina paragraphs on interim authority in Falklands) ["we are deeply disappointed the Argentine paragraphs are unacceptable"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1332 to FCO (1635Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Clark up all night; Haig having last round with Junta "on the basis of very tough instructions", if it fails US will state clearly which side they are on] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 72 to UKE Lima (1646Z) ("Text of Reply to Peruvian Government's Message") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 73 to UKE Lima (1700Z) ("Text of My Reply to Personal Message from Peruvian Foreign Minister") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 176 to UKE Paris (1700Z) ("Falklands: Reporting on Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1333 to FCO (1705Z) ("Falklands") [Clark account of Junta's intransigence; concerned at British critcism of US "neutral stance"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1333 to FCO (1705Z) ("Falklands") [Clark account of Junta's intransigence; concerned at British critcism of US "neutral stance"] [released 2013]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands/JIC: JIC Immediate Assessment (JIC(IA)29) (1715Z) (Falkland Islands) [Latin America Current Intelligence Group meeting 17 Apr] [declassified Jul 2002]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1335 to FCO (1745Z) ("Falklands") [account of New York Times article "US handling of Falkland crisis stirs deep resentment in Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 71 to UKE Lima (1800Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (1930–1934Z) (MT, President Reagan) [negotiations with Argentina] [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	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]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	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]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 492 to FCO (2027Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: Burt information memorandum for Eagleburger ("The Falklands: Beyond Buenos Aires") [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: Eagleburger telegram for Haig (2348Z) ("Timing of UK Task Force Arrival at Falklands") [published 2015]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 1 to BIS Buenos Aires (2348Z) ("Missing Journalists") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Rentschler MSS)	Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig's last-ditch effort with Galtieri) ["your current negotiating position constitutes a decision to go to war" with UK]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary [Philadelphia society][released 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO notes of 22nd Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) (Operation Paraquet & Operation Sutton) [ROEs for Paraquet mistakenly thought to be in operation; Operation Sutton Phase A to be considered at OD(SA) on 19 Apr] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (2200Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Nott) [ROE agreed for British submarines within MEZ: "All vessels positively identified as Argentine warships may be attacked", excluding submarines and auxiliaries] [declassified Dec 2012]

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