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Text 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 218 to FCO (0020Z) ("Suarez Initiative") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1443 to FCO (0125Z) ("Haig negotiations") [Haig message to MT - putting his ideas to Costa Mendez exactly as given to Pym] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Kydd minute to Ingham ("Panorama") [results of Panorama poll on attitudes to Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Panorama") [further briefing for interview with Kee and Lindley] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Politics, Military, Treatment, Argentina, UK) ["Observer says that Americans fear war is inevitable/ News of the World alleges that there is to be a sell out"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: MT message for Haig (0612Z) ("Falkland Islands Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 130 to UKE Madrid (0630Z) ("Suarez Initiative") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 5th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Security) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Defence Operations Executive - DOE 5th Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Security) [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT draft message for Haig (negotiations with Argentina) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute for MT (MOD statement: attack on Argentine submarine near South Georgia) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (Falkland Islands: Argentina; The United States; OAS) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: CDS minute for Nott ("Operation Corporate - SSN Rules of Engagement - Argentinian Landing Ships") [asks for SSN ROEs to be extended to include them] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 158/742/1 ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [list of specific areas where UK might request increased military assistance from US] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 160/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - Record of Decisions or Action Completed") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 160/742/1 ("Operation Corporate - Record of Decisions or Action Completed") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 31st meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 161/742/1 ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hoskyns letter to MT (Hoskyns thanks MT for farewell dinner on his departure from Policy Unit) [the evening "was the most enormously generous and thoughtful send-off and all the more appreciated in the present very difficult circumstances"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Darwin minute for Gillmore ("OD(SA)(82)24: Annex B") [Havers suggests small amendments for OD(SA) paper] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA), 26 April") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: CND letter to MT (Falkland Islands) ["concern over the threats to peace in the South Atlantic and the need for a peaceful solution"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 110") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute ("Falkland Islands: UK [sic US] Assistance") [case for lease/lend of a small or medium sized US carrier] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press briefing (1100Z) (Falkands) [submarine attack, "new Defensive Area", Task Force rules of engagement] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1100Z) (Falkand Islands) ["British helicopters today attacked a hostile Argentine submarine"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD statements (1100Z) (British helicopter attack on Argentine submarine at South Georgia) [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1100Z) (Ships from the reserve) ["There is no such thing as the reserve, these are ships which would normally be for disposal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House Situation Room note (?1100Z) ("[redacted words] attack on Argentine submarine") [British attack on the Santa Fé] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 296 to UKMIS New York and many others (1230Z) ("Falklands: Military Operations") [MOD statement on British attack against Santa Fé; act to secure support for British position] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig memorandum for President (1340Z) ("Call from PM Thatcher on the Falklands crisis") [anticipated MT call; points to make in defence of text agreed with Pym] [declassified Dcr 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Agenda for OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 16th (1345Z) ("Situation in the South Atlantic") [OD(SA)(82)22, 23, 24; four itemised minutes] [declassified Dcr 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 16th (1345Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [ROE agreed to permit Argentine aircraft to be shot down within 40 miles of Task Force] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SECCOS debrief of OD(SA) (1345Z) (new ROE on High Seas) [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: FCO note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 27 (Falkland Islands: Position of the Islanders in a Blockade) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Press Major Archive (Library of Congress) Falklands: FBIS Daily Report for Argentina (1455Z) ("Communiques on Military Situation in Islands") [Junta communiques 27-32: Argentine forces repel British helicopter attack on South Georgia; Argentine forces continuing to fight (26 Apr 0356Z)]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD statements (1545Z) (British helicopter damaged Argentine submarine at South Georgia) [Santa Fe] [this copy declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD statements (1605Z) (recapture of South Georgia) ["British forces are now ashore"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD and No.10 joint press statement (1605Z) (Falkand Islands) [attack on Argentine submarine - "Unattributably we added that the submarine was on the surface but of course was in a position to fire torpedos [sic]"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 110 [sic] to FCO (1625Z) ("Falklands") [MOD statement; South Georgia; Brazilian public opinion] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1700Z) (Redundancies, Falkland Islands - Rundown at Portsmouth and Chatham) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1700Z) (Falklands) ["British forces are now ashore in South Georgia"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1444 to FCO (1715Z) (“US measures against the Soviet Union: existing contracts”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1445 to FCO (1720Z) ("Falklands: Israeli Military Supplies to Argentina"] [further intelligence reports drawn to State Department's attention] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1446 to FCO (1725Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [White House and State Department expecting US tilt towards Britain if no progress in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CTF317.9 signal to CINCFLEET (1730Z) ("Operation Paraquet 6") [surrender by Argentine commander of South Georgia on VHF channel 16, but no contact with Leith] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Press Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Reuters report (1736Z) ("Marines sank Argentinian craft, claim") [owner of Falkland Times claims that Royal Marines sank Argentinian landing craft during invasion] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 375 to FCO (1750Z) ("Falklands Operations") [FRG worry about implications of British "first attack" on Argentinians at South Georgia] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1447 to FCO (1815Z) ("Falklands: Media Coverage") [Senator Tower urging logistical and intelligence support for Britain] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 297 to UKMIS New York (1845Z) ("Falkland Islands: Submarine incident off South Georgia") [MOD press statement and unattributable background] [declassified Dec 2012]

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