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Text 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 493 to FCO (0001Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 500 to FCO (0039Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 501 to FCO (0041Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 504 to FCO (0121Z) ("Visit of Mr Denis Healey MP") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press lines ("Hydrographic Ships - Hospital Ferries"; "Karg - update on PR line"; "2 Para Group", "Falkland Islands - Nuclear Weapons") ["we do not deny the capability but never ever confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.111 (Falkland Islands: 19 April) ["The vice is tightening. The Task Force is on course and on time"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.112 ("Falkland Islands - Haig Talks in Buneos Aires") ["Haig is 'flashing' a document to us which he has agreed with the Argentines"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Political, US support, Military, Economic,) ["The main stories come out of Buenos Aires with suggestions of the talks making little progress"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 109") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: Haig Initiative, UN, US, Argentina, Tailpiece) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig message to Pym (0828Z) (Haig reports on further negotiations with Argentina) ["We are finally close to what is probably the maximum obtainable from the Argentines"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig telegram for President Reagan (0829Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 24th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Paraquet, Rules of Engagement, Scope for Delaying Landing Operations) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 24th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0830Z) (Intelligence, Task Force progress, Operation Paraquet, Rules of Engagement, British Antarctic Territory, Scope for Delaying Landing Operations) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 24th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0830Z) ("Operation Paraquet") [Rules of Engagement] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CINCFLEET outline plan for Chiefs of Staff - COS(Misc)137/742/1 ("Operation Sutton outline plan") ["AIM: To land a force in the Falkland Islands with a view to repossessing the islands"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to President Banda of Malawi (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [thanks for support] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to President Banda of Malawi (Malawi's support in the Falklands crisis) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to John Cheek (Cheek's ideas about long term solution to Falklands problem) ["We shall give these very careful attention...since they come from an elected representative of the Islanders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to John Cheek (response to his proposals; assurance of support for islanders' wishes) [letter to Falklands Council member] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government Deputy Chief Whip's circular to whips (announcement of South Atlantic Presentation Unit) [reactions of individual whips] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO minute ("Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falklands Dispute") [summary of negotiations since 1963] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Sequence of Events if Haig Gives up his Mission") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute to Pym PS ("Argentine request for satellite coverage of Falkland Islands") [revised and final version of line to take] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: MoD letter to No.10 (“The Spanish military threat to Gibraltar”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Brittan minute to MT (“MPO’s Early Tasks”) [Management and Personnel Office] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute for MT ("Falklands: Possible Emergency Bill") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker letter to Pym (Common Agricultural Policy: assessment of benefits to France) ["Given that for many years France has shown a singular lack of appreciation of this country's difficulties as a major contributor... it is helpful to have on the record a French assessment of the benefits which accrue to her"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dr Perutz message for MT (Galtieri's visits to Washington before the invasion) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: Pym minute to MT ("Belize: British Garrison") [presentation of decision to defer withdrawal] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Pym minute to Home Secretary (“Polish Refugees”) [resettlement programme] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: John Moore letter to Brittan (“BGC consultancy study”) [British Gas] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 14 (Index-Linked Pensions) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Edwards PS ("Schools Council") [draft Statement to Parliament on the future of Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Bank of England record of Deputy Governor’s conversations during Budapest G30 (‘Hungary’) [Kadar & Fekete reassuring bankers; World Outlook] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 120 to UKDEL NATO (1000Z) ("North Atlantic Council: Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's Day, In the House: statements, Northern Ireland devolution bill, Haig talks) ["The aim remained to secure the peaceful withdrawal of the invading forces"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 9th (1015Z) ("Situation in the South Atlantic") [possible breakdown in Haig shuttle] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 15 ("Military Decisions: 20 April") [ROEs for South Georgia and High Seas] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 272 to FCO (1015Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 152 to FCO (1035Z) (RAF VC10 took off) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO flash telegram 761 to UKE Washington (1100Z) ("Falklands: correspondence with Haig") [Pym reply to Haig's latest message, "deeply concerned"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press briefing (1100Z) (Falkland Islands) [2 PARA; Soviet surveillance; HMS Illustrious] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO press release (1130Z) (Pym message to Chairman of Organisation of American States) [welcomes sincere efforts of OAS to promote peaceful outcome] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 26 to BIS Buenos Aires (1230Z) ("British Chamber of Commerce") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (1230Z) ("Falklands: Message from the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (1230Z) (situation in the Falkland Islands) [declassified Dec 2012]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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