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82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 493 to FCO (0001Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [clarifying his suggestion for a draft resolution; "I was not advocating the ideas as such"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación)	Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (0030Z) (Haig, Galtieri, Costa Mendez) (Spanish text, Spanish transcript & English translation) [Haig: "if [MT] does not want war she may be satisfied with some face-saving measures"] [declassified 2015]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 500 to FCO (0039Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Secretary-General sent separately for Kirkpatrick, Parsons & Roca and gave them a paper offering ideas] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 501 to FCO (0041Z) ("Falkland Islands") [paper given by Secretary-General to Kirkpatrick, Parsons & Roca] [declassified Dec 2012]
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]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación)	Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (0425Z) (Haig, Galtieri, Costa Mendez) (Spanish text, Spanish transcript & English translation) [document complete save for paragraph on withdrawal of forces] [declassified 2015]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: State Department memcon (0515Z) (Haig, Enders, Gompert, Gudgeon, Wayne, Schuette, Adams) [Argentine draft reply - "The Secretary said that for the first time in this effort things now looked doable"] [published 2015]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SCDS(A) briefing for CDS PSO (c0700Z) ("Handover Notes") [CDS's activities 18/19 Apr; two Canberra PR9s and two support Hercules en route to Chile via Belize, to arrive in Chilean colours] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: SCDS briefing for CDS (0900Z) ("COS committee meeting at 1000A hrs Monday 19 April 1982") [topics] [declassified Spt 2017]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Haig telegram for President Reagan (0829Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [published 2015]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: DSECCOS minute (0830Z) ("Debrief of actions arising from Chiefs of Staff meeting 24/82") [prepare main force ROE paper for Mandarins' Group 1500Z; scope for delay appreciation] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO notes of 24th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0830Z) ("The Scope for Delaying Landing Operations on the Falkland Islands") [need to hold main part of Task Force at Ascension until 29 April and perhaps beyond; copy of COS(Misc)132/742/1] [declassified 2012]
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]
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]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Chief Naval Staff PS minute to SECCOS ("Operation Corporate - Landing Operations") [Leach amendments to COS(Misc)138/742/1 - landing window 14-23 May, optimum landing date 16 May; latest prudent decision date to launch amphibious force from Ascension 8 May given 14 day passage] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: PS Chief of Air Staff to SECCOS ("Operation Corporate - Major Landing Operations") [reworded text of COS(Misc)138/742/1 which "reflects CAS's view that the window of opportunity and the optimum date for a landing operation need not necessarily be as narrowly constrained as the original version suggested"] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Wright minute for Acland ("The scope for delaying landing operations on the Falkland Islands") [draft paper for CDS to send Nott, COS(Misc)138/742/1 "Operation Corporate - Landing Operations"] [declassified Dcr 2012]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Weston briefing for Acland ("ODSA: 9am 20 April") [ROEs on High Seas & suggested 48 hour delay of Operation Paraquet while diplomacy continues] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: GCHQ notes of meeting ("Falklands: Notes of Meeting on 19 April 1982") [current intelligence; Argentine submarine group; relations with Northwood; Sunday Times articles] [declassified May 2023]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Nott PS minute to CNS ("US Naval Movements") [Nott wishes to know at once if any report of US naval forces being moved into South Atlantic; report this morning of US SSNs] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: CDS minute to Nott ("Operation Corporate - Landing Operations") [earliest possible landing date 14 May, landing window extends until 23 May, optimum 16 May; otherwise hold many troops at Ascension] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: CDS notes given to Nott (Operation Corporate - update) [5 Brigade, etc] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Lewin letter to USAF Major General Baxter (thanks for letter of support) [every message like his adds to "the strength of the British cause in (as you so rightly put it) this foolish crisis"; do not let Argentinians underestimate "our resolve or determination"] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Chief of Air Staff minute to Nott ("Operation Paraquet - Reconnaissance by Victor Tanker") [planes now at Ascension; Force Commander would not request use if alternatives existed; maritime radar recon to be flown tomorrow to west of South Georgia] [declassified Oct 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Chief Air Staff minute to Nott ("Operation Corporate - Vulcans") [Nott annotation agrees requirement for Vulcan support during Corporate, but no long-term decision; take care not to suggest Vulcans have been 'reprieved'] [declassified Spt 2017]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 138/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - Landing Operations") [draft Lewin submission to Nott] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
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]
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]
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]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Government Deputy Chief Whip's circular to whips (announcement of South Atlantic Presentation Unit) [reactions of individual whips] [declassified Dec 2012]
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]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Gillmore minute for Fearn ("Victor reconnaissance flights over South Georgia") [contingency plans for flights and possible diversion to Brazil, warning HM Ambassador in Brasilia] [declassified Dcr 2012]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: MoD letter to No.10 (“The Spanish military threat to Gibraltar”) [declassified 2012]
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]
82 Apr 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Armstrong minute for MT ("Falklands: Possible Emergency Bill") [declassified Dec 2012]
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]

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