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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) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 17th (1015Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [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") [declassified 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: 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) 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: Cabinet Office minute to South Atlantic Presentation Unit (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]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1452 to FCO (1959Z) ("Falklands and the OAS") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands)
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's Panorama interview) [the "disappeared" in Argentina, possible action by the OAS] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hoskyns minute for Ingham ("Panorama Interview: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hoskyns minute to Ingham ("Panorama Interview: Falklands") [important to get tone right: "This is not a battle for our homeland and civilisation..."Ring out the bells" brings us to the edge of black farce for the South Georgia operation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1465 to FCO (2242Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Haig reports on his speech at the OAS; "He had spoken to Costa Mendez and told him that time had run out"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Trip to Ankara and Athens on May 13-16, Buckley Meeting in Paris a Success, UN General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Palestine") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 569 to FCO (2312Z) ("Falklands: NAM Communique") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 322 to FCO (2315Z) ("Possible Mexican Initiative: Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 570 to FCO (2345Z) ("Falkland Islands in the UN") [developments in the UN: Secretary-General's call for "escalation of the situation" to be halted; pressure for UN peace initiative "is mounting"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Pym; memo to PM on indexed pensions; splendid performance on Panorama][released 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acland minute to Pym PS ("Bombing of Stanley Airfield") [discussion at Armstrong committee, 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) Falklands: PSO CDS minute for CDS ("JIC Proposed Military Sub-Committee") ["Falklands had put the JIC in some disarray, and they felt the need to get in on the military bandwaggon"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SECCOS minute ("OD(SA) debrief - 27 April 1982") [ROE for SSN; Vulcans - 29 April OD(SA) to decide on giving CINCFLEET authority to use them] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS briefing for CDS ("COS 31st Meeting/82 at 1000 hours on Monday 26 April 1982") [annotated agenda] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott PS minute for PSO CDS ("Naval Action outside the Total Exclusion Zone") [OD(SA) - work needed on ROEs to permit attack on Argentine navy outside TEZ] [declassified Spt 2017]
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 Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: CNS minute for Chiefs ("Operation Corporate - briefing at Buckingham Palace") [short briefing for Prince at Wales at his request by VCNS tomorrow] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott PS minute for Head DS8 ("Training with the French") [Nott pleased RAF training with French Mirage and Etendard aircraft; "very good"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: PSO CDS minute ("Procedure for processing ROE") [Lewin's preference is to prepare them in the form of a draft paper for OD(SA)] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS minute to PSO CDS ("Operation Corporate - Planning Assumptions") [Trenchard reluctant to advance completion of HMS Illustrious by mid-June on grounds "the whole business will be over by then anyway"] [declassified Spt 2017]

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