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PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“The Government’s White Paper: A Framework on Devolution”) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to Cockfield (export of strategic goods to Argentina) ["We do not want to be unduly provocative", but situation can change fast so officials should prepare necessary legislation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Lord Hailsham minute for Norman Fowler (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Possible Inquiry into Medical Ethics”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Younger minute for Norman Fowler (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Possible Enquiry into Medical Ethics”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Coles minute to Ingham ("Appeal by UN Secretary General") [response to Perez de Cuellar's statement on Falklands situation: Parsons doesn't want HMG "to leak that the Secretary General apologised for this statement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Younger letter to Brittan (“Local authority current expenditure (Scotland) 1982-83: grant reductions”) [failure to reach agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Brittan letter to Heseltine (“Reorganisation of the Metropolitan Authorities”) [case for abolishing the GLC] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 32nd Meeting/82 (0930Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, Operation Sutton, Anti-Radiation Missiles) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Hailsham, Nott, Younger, Biffen, Fowler, Tebbit, Jopling, Baroness Young, Keith Joseph, Barney Hayhoe) [pay issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Hailsham-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Younger-Biffen-Fowler-Young-Tebbit-Jopling-Hayhoe-Armstrong-Sparrow) [public sector pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT, Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Howe, Keith Joseph, Nott, Younger, Biffen, Fowler, Baroness Young, Tebbit, Jopling, Hayhoe) [pay issues; Top Salaries Review Body recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (0930Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Hailsham-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Younger-Pym-Fowler-Young-Tebbit-Jopling-Hayhoe-Armstrong-Sparrow) [Civil Service pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, Cabinet) ["there certainly had been no British casualties reported"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym press conference (Falkland Islands, Middle East) [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir (1037Z) (congratulations on election victory) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1100Z) (Falkland Islands - Disciplinary Action, Requisition of Ships, Sales of Phantoms to Chile, HMS Intrepid and Bayleaf, Casualties) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1473 to FCO (1220Z) ("Falklands") [Haig says US Ambassador to Argentina en route to hand US proposals to Galtieri] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1350Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Shlaudeman meets Galtieri] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1350Z) ("Falkland Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1414Z) ("Engagement on South Georgia") [Junta asks US for information on Argentine casualties, POWs] [declassified 2001]
Text 82 Apr 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z)
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (1445Z) (MT, John MacGregor, Dr. David Clark) [redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (EC, Falkland Islands, Second Lobby [statement by UN Secretary-General]) ["the UN had been unable to secure compliance with its own mandatory resolution"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1474 to FCO (1642Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Weinberger - considering further US help to UK if talks break down because of Argentinian intransigence] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 397 to FCO (1711Z) ("Falklands: French Opinion") [South Georgia - varied reactions; Le Quotidien says the affair a reminder of the almost forgotten principle of national honour] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 575 to FCO (1726Z) ("Exchanges in the House of Commons about the Secretary-General's appeal") [defusing the story] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1730Z) ("Falkland crisis: Argentine prisoners and Junta deliberations") [POW info passed on; services considering US proposal in their respective HQs] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (1800Z) ("Falklands: Japanese position") [disappointment at Japanese refusal to introduce import ban; MT agrees reply "in rather stiff terms" to PM Suzuki] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1815Z) ("NSSD 1-82") (NSC 0047) [National Security Strategy Directive] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs information memorandum for Haig ("Public Sides with Britain in Falklands Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Burt information memorandum for Haig ("US Contingency Planning for the Falklands Crisis") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (draft reply to Non-Aligned Movement) [historical justification of British claim] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig message to Galtieri (2032Z) ("Exclusion Zone warning") ["asking both parties to exercise restraint with regard to the exclusion zone for the time being"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig message for President Galtieri (2032Z) ("Exclusion Zone Warning") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram to FCO (2045Z) ("Falklands: Rio Treaty Meeting") [Foreign Ministry worry that British military action imminent] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 179 to FCO (2130Z) ("Falklands: press allegations about Chilean/UK military cooperation") [story in Daily Star, perhaps being "fed Argentinian disinformation ... to tarnish the current Chilean neutral stance"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: BBC2 TV Interview for Newsnight (David Steel on the Falkands) [role of the UN] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Law of the Sea Conference, Meeting with Tunisian Prime Minister Mzali, UN General Assembly Special Session on Palestine") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1486 to FCO (2304Z) ("Argentina: Arms Supplies") [reports of US sale of Skyhawk engines to Argentina; US Customs blocked shipment for refurbishment in Italy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (2314Z) ("Falkland crisis: Junta deliberations") [meeting at 2030; navy resisting] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (2345Z) (Appeal to Britain and the Argentine by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 26 April 1982) ["In our view the appeal was low key and the least that the Secretary-General could do given the pressure he was under"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Barney Hayhoe PS minute to No.10 (note on amendment restoring 5% abatement of unemployment benefit (Clause 29 of Finance Bill 1982)) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (congratulations on election victory) [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Civil service arbitration award; Parkinson’s report of War cabinet ][released 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu 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 27 Tu 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 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD briefing for Nott ("OD(SA) Meeting - 0900 28 April: Briefing on announcement of a Total Exclusion Zone (TEZ)") [points to make; text of announcement; Q&A; background note] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell letter to Nicholas Edwards ("Euroroute") [objections to Ian MacGregor's idea for a combined bridge/tunnel link] [released Dec 2014]

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