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Text 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (0000–0045Z) (Pym, Haig) [Falkland Islands framework] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1428 to FCO (0025Z) ("Falklands: Satellite Coverage") [Haig told Pym of Argentine request for LANDSAT photos, stressing no military value; Pym "infinitely better" they were not provided] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 159 to FCO (0100Z) ("Beagle dispute"] [Chile would apply to ICJ if Argentina tried to procrastinate further] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1434 to FCO (0150Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington"] [Pym interview on CBS Evening News - he was visiting US "with some new ideas", Haig mission - "There is most certainly life in it and there is hope in it"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1436 to FCO (0212Z) ("Falkland Islands"] [Haig gave Pym text of possible Presidential statement to be issued when agreement reached] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1433 to FCO (0129Z) ("Agreement of additional measures going beyond the Maritime Exclusion Zone"] [Pym gave text to Haig saying not decided whether to announce it publicly; he replied if Argentinians did not understand out intentions, not due to lack of effort; fresh evidence Argentine Air Force opposed to escalation] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1435 to FCO (0210Z) ("Falkland Islands: US Security Assurances") [Pym gave Haig proposed British text of letter for Reagan to send MT on conclusion of agreement] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 160 to FCO (0220Z) ("Falklands/OAS") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig letter to MT (0428Z) ("Falkland Islands Crisis") [commentary on proposals being brought back by Pym, with annotations by MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig letter to MT (0428Z) ("Falkland Islands Crisis") [commentary on proposals being brought back by Pym] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig letter to MT (0428Z) ("Falkland Islands crisis") [Pym bringing proposals back from Washington] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Derek Walker-Smith MP letter to The Times (the Falklands crisis) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, US, UK, Argentina, EC and Military) ["Press believe ... we are poised to attack South Georgia"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: Pym's visit to Washington; Argentina; OAS; UN) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) ("Falkland Islands: FCO Sitrep: 0730, 24 April: Overnight Developments") [Pym, Galtieri returns from Falklands visit, US State Department provide Argentina with Landsat coverage of Falklands, OAS, UN, enquiry] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal (0636Z) ("Argentine battle plan: details from Commander Task Force 79") ["wait and see posture"; "aiming to make it difficult for the opponent to act by dividing his efforts by means of a threat from different directions"] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Gibraltar telegram 59 to FCO (0810Z) ("Spanish Reaction to Falkland Islands Invasion") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 99 to UKE Ankara (0820Z) ("Falklands: Military Operations") [contingency plans "if there is a military incident of some significance" - retaking South Georgia] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MODUK signal to CBFSU Ascension (0830Z) ("Aviation Fuel"] [BDS Washington given assurances that all US fuel stocks on Ascension available to British if needed] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MOD press briefings (0830Z, 1030Z, 1045Z) (Falkland Islands - Atlantic Conveyor, Insurance and Death and Disablement Benefits, Voice of "Liberty") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS(B) minute for CDS ("Santa Fé") [intercepted signals show the submarine "unquestionably poses a threat"; Argentine air reconnaissance of Paraquet group] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 30th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 30th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SECCOS debrief of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 30th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required) [Sea King accident - low-key announcement; no plans to use QE2] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 30th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) ("Falklands: publication of warning to Argentines about protection of the fleet") [Leach favoured announcing warning and asking ministers to change ROEs to shoot down 707s only if warning ignored] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) East Asia: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Far East") [MT's views on arrangements for trip] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands: financial arrangements for those who wish to leave") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: The Constitutional Position") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute (Commonwealth reactions to Argentinian invasion) [detail of statements and actions by Commonwealth governments] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Argentine Reconnaissance Flights over the British Task Force") [UK warning to Argentina delivered yesterday; MT agrees Parsons's advice it should be notified to the UN, without announcement in London] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston minute for Gillmore ("Falklands: publication of warning to Argentines about protection of the fleet") [decision to publish warning by circulating it to UN Security Council] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Falkland Island Population") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD PUS minute to Nott (briefing for Chequers meeting of 25th April) ["[Nott should emphasise] need for tough decisions soon on how to use the formidable military capability we have deployed to the South Atlantic"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: DT note to Caroline Stephens (DT's movements during Reagan's visit) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan message to MT (sanctions against Argentina) [Suzuki to pressure Japanese business not to "unduly take advantage" of EC and other measures to ban Argentine imports] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cameroon: President Ahidjo of Cameroon message to MT (thanks for hospitality during stay) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CTF317 signal to MODUK (0950Z) ("Operation Paraquet Sitrep AM 24 Apr") [Argentine reconnaissance overflights 22 Apr and 23 Apr] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 44 to FCO (1000Z) ("Press Summary"] [Galtieri visit to Falklands; Iglesias Rouco says "war is now inevitable"] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Stevens of Sierra Leone (1055Z) (thanking for the support amid the Falklands crisis) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Stevens of Sierra Leone (1055Z) (thanks for allowing Navy ships to refuel at Freetown) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Diouf of Senegal (1055Z) (thanking for the support amid the Falklands crisis) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Diouf of Senegal (1055Z) (thanks for allowing RAF aircraft to use Yoff airport) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 196 to FCO (1100Z) (EC Council of Ministers' communique on Falklands) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegrams 196-97 to FCO (1100-1115Z) ("Falklands crisis: Italian views") [Council of Ministers statement; PM's office and MFA assure us no change in Italian position of support for UK position] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 64 to UKHC Ottawa and others (1122Z) ("Commonwealth and Falkland Islands") [Prime Ministerial thanks for support] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig memorandum for President Reagan ("Call from PM Thatcher on the Falklands Crisis") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Nott PS (?1200Z) ("Training with the French") [signals from RAF Wittering detailing Harrier training against Mirage and Super Etendard on 22 and 23 Apr] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 25 (Falkland Islands: Washington Discussion with Mr Haig) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 26 (Comparison of Draft Proposals) [declassified 2012]

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