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Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to All Diplomatic and Consular Posts (0050Z) ("Falkland Islands Situation Report as of 1700 EST, April 25") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Clipping from The Times ("Marines go in: South Georgia recaptured") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands- Treatment, Politics, US, Argentina, UK) ["Treatment is almost entirely triumphant with the Mirror, Guardian and FT least europhic"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press digest for MT ("This Week - Highlights") [Falklands: re-capture of South Georgia] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Argentines on South Georgia: Prisoners of War Question) [application of Geneva conventions] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("South Georgia/Falkland Islands: 26 April") [on the record line to take] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to MOD (0630Z) ("Falkland Islands: Military Decisions") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Consular Situation Report (0630Z) (repatriation of Mrs Thomson from Buenos Aires; arrested British journalists; anti-British feeling in Venezuela; security of British persons in Argentina; assistance to the Islanders) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Amman telegram 165 to FCO (0725Z) ("Falklands: Military Operations") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 31st Meeting/82 (0900Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Operation Paraquet, US Assistance) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 31st Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0900Z) (Intelligence, Rules of Engagement, Argentine reaction to South Georgia operation, POWs, The Santa Fe, South Sandwich Islands, Public Relations) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Argentine Instrument of Surrender (surrender of Argentine forces on South Georgia) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MT message to Commander-in-Chief, Fleet (recapture of South Georgia) [congratulations to "the men in the Armed Forces under your command on the successful outcome of this operation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to Fieldhouse (congratulations on recapture of South Georgia) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter for President Mitterrand (action against Argentina: talks with Japan) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to President Mitterrand (thanks for help with EC sanctions against Argentina) ["the Japanese have up to now not been persuaded to take effective action"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand message to MT (recovery of South Georgia) ["this has been a splendid feat of British arms"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda (International Development Association) [funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia (International Development Association and the World Bank) [other nations to follow UK lead in making larger proportion of grant contribution available] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter to President Kyprianou (missing persons) [“I remain convinced that the Committee is the correct vehicle for tackling this serious problem”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cyprus: MT letter to President Kyprianou of Cyprus (missing persons in Cyprus) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Samoa: MT letter to Prime Minister Kolone of Samoa (congratulations on election) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT letter to Habib Chatty (Death Sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("World Bank general capital increase") [implications for UK's position in the IMF] [declassified Aug 2013]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Nationalised industry draft objectives”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Ministerial committee on economic strategy: sub-committee on telecommunications policy”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (“European Community representation at the Versailles economic summit”) [protocol and international monetary system] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (MT's statement on prisoners captured in South Georgia) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Statement on the Falklands: 26 April") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Financial assistance to Falkland Islanders wishing to return to this country") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO notes for supplementary questions in Commons ("Notes for Supplementaries") [US, UN, Falklands population, mediation, Venezuela/Guyana border dispute, Argentine POWs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/Falklands: FCO minute (conversation with Italian Minister) [warns how difficult EC sanctions had been for Italian government, PSI especially critical; need for "a quick and above all a negotiated settlement"] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand message for MT (the recovery of South Georgia) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan letter for MT (the Falklands conflict: Japanese position) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: Nott minute to MT ("Belize - British Garrison") [presentation of decision to defer withdrawal: thoughts on Pym's minute] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong note to MT ("The Destruction of Port Stanley Airfield") [decision on whether to deploy Vulcans] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Services Pay") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to MT ("Public Service Pay: Your 27 April Meeting") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to MT ("Cabinet 29 April: Index linked pensions") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Sherman minute to MT ("Politics and war in the Falklands: after South Georgia") [war and political strategy; US position; dealing with the UN] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Patrick Jenkin (Radio Frequency Review) [picture that has emerged is gloomy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Telephone Rental Charges and Pensioners") [MT still in favour of reduced standing charge coupled with reduced local call time per unit; agrees to delayed decision pending strategic review of policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chairman of the Coalite Group letter for MT (evacuation of the Islanders) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Michael Jopling minute for Norman Fowler (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Possible Enquiry into Medical Ethics”) [shouldn’t emerge until after the next General Election] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to FCO (Pym's draft message to Haig) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to FCO ("New Basis for Mr Haig's Negotiations") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym draft message for Haig (the repossession of South Georgia) [declassified Dec 2012]

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