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PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acland minute for Pym PS ("Falkland Islands: Surveillance Aircraft") [further warning left to Pym's discretion; Acland advises it would look "rather feeble"; Pym agrees not to issue one] [declassified Dec 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: FCO Western European Department minute for Bullard ("Italy/Argentina") [after your briefing of EC colleagues, Fontana Giusti visited and stressed how difficult sanctions have been for Italy; PSI especially critical] [declassified Dec 2012]
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) Falklands: Sinclair letter to Wade-Gery ("Falkland Islands: Protocol constituting the special interim authority pursuant to the agreed memorandum") [new material on flags introduced into American third draft; fourth draft promised "which will presumably be geared more closely to the new and very unwelcome Haig text ... we brought back from Washington"] [declassified Dec 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) 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) 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]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Pym message for Haig (Falklands Islands conflict: repossession of South Georgia) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British recapture of South Georgia) [Britain acting in self-defence under Article 51]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ian Gow minute to Norman St John Stevas (phone call) [thanks] [released 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for Perutz (United States' relations with Argentina) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Senor Rossell de la Lama, Governor of Mexican Province of Hidalgo, Edward Du Cann) [Falkland Islands] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], South Georgia, OAS, Du Cann, Negotiation, Brits in Argentina, US atttitude, HM Queen) ["we thought the South Georgia action would strengthen our negotiating position"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS briefing for CDS ("OD(SA) 17th Meeting at 1115 hours on Monday 26 April 1982") [annotated agenda] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 17th (1015Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [ROEs for TEZ and announcement agreed, but no decision to introduce it] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 31 (Evacuation of the Falkland Islands: Contingency Reception Arrangements) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 27th April") [OD(SA)(82) 18th] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 111 to FCO (1020Z) ("Falklands: Irish media comments") [South Georgia - no official comment yet; Irish press mixed] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Oslo telegram 81 to FCO (1137Z) ("Falklands: Military Operations") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (1215Z) (Pym, Haig) [Falkland Islands] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Copenhagen telegram 96 to FCO (1230Z) ("South Georgia") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 199 to FCO (1315Z) ("Falkland Islands: Japanese Position") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (1345Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands]
Audio 82 Apr 26 Mo Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] (recapture of South Georgia) [audio]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: CTG317.9 signal to CTF317 (1445Z) ("Operation Paraquet") [informal conversation with captured Argentine officers; condition of Santa Fé; cryptographic material not disposed of] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 565 to FCO (1445Z) ("South Georgia: Notification to Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 187 to FCO (1500Z) ("Falkland Islands and ICRC") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1515Z) (Cabinet, Urgency, Negotiations, Pressure, Haig, MoD announcements) ["We could not rule out future military action before or during negotiations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Holy See telegram 21 to FCO (1515Z) ("Falklands: military operations") [conversation with Monsignor Silvestrini] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 188 to FCO (1535Z) ("Falkland Islands and ICRC") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 380 to FCO (1645Z) ("South Georgia: French Reactions") [Gutmann questioning British account of attack on the Santa Fé; Quai saying that these events confirm "even more strongly the urgent need for a negotiation"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acland minute to Pym PS ("Bombing of Stanley Airfield") [discussion at Mandarins' Group, case against bombing; MT wrongly briefed in thinking Argentine strike aircraft already there or likely to be] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: FCO guidance telegram 78 to certain missions and dependent terrritories (1730Z) ("El Salvador") [formation of a coalition to the right of the Christian Democrats] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 202 to FCO (1815Z) ("Italy and the Falklands") ["Before you see Colombo tomorrow, you should know that he is in two minds about our recapture of South Georgia"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit paper (SAPU(82)8) (1800Z) (the landing on South Georgia; legal position; what happens next; British Antarctic Survey Team) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Robert Service action memorandum for Eagleburger ("UK Request to NOAA for Additional Weather Satellite Data") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig memorandum to President Reagan ("Falklands Crisis - Proposed Call to General Galtieri") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Reagan letter to MT (cooperation on economic issues) [George Shultz to travel to London] [released 2013]

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