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Text 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1506 to FCO (0105Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Henderson requests further clarification from Haig on US position] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires (0145Z) ("Falkland Islands: Secretary's Meeting with Costa Mendez") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Costa Mendez letter to Haig (0544Z) ("Falkland Islands: Costa Mendez letter") [rejects proposal; "other formulas must be found"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Argentine Foreign Minister Costa Mendez letter for Haig (sovereignty over the Falkland Islands) [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (comment on Hugh Stephenson's appointment as editor of the New Statesman )
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands - Treatment, Military, US, UK, Argentina) ["We are heading for the last chance of peace/ Mirror suggests Argentine officials now regard US as being on our side"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [Reports from Haig; OAS/UN; TEZ; Chile; Uruguay; Australia; NATO; US opinion poll; BAS personnel; Falkland evacuation; South Georgia; British aircraft] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC New Delhi telegram 431 to FCO (0700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with Mrs Gandhi - 'unsatisfactory', but she understood British points; will try to maintain some sort of balance between the two sides] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 20th (0800Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nott memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 32 (Enforcement of the Total Exclusion Zone) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 34 (Message to President Reagan) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 35 (Falkland Islands: Diplomatic Action Following the Failure of Mr Haig's Proposals) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 30th April") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (0900Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 21st (0900Z) (Falkland Islands, Parliamentary Affairs, Public Services Pay) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 171/742/1 ("Falkland Islands - Landing Operations") [paper for ministers to take stock of the aim of the operation and military factors affecting it] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 35th Meeting/82 (1000Z) (MBFR; UKMILREP Brussels; Joint Logistic Plan; Operation Corporate - intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required, force levels, the Argentine aircraft carrier, the threat to Ascension Island, South Georgia) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 35th Meeting/82 (1000Z) (Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Force Levels, Argentina Aircraft Carrier) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO notes of 35th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1000Z) (Amphibious Forces, Rules of Engagement, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, Argentine POWs) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 171/742/1 ("Falkland Islands - Landing Operations") [paper for ministers to take stock of the aim of the operation and military factors affecting it - Weston annotated copy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee after 35th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 172/742/1 ("SSN ROE when contact is made with Argentine surface forces by RN forces enforcing the TEZ") [draft submission from Lewin to Nott] [declassified Dcr 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 173/742/1 ("Procedures for processing Rules of Engagement") [ACDS(Ops) paper] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee for 37th Meeting/82 of COS - COS(Misc) 177/742/1 (1515Z) ("Falkland Islands Landing Operations - Reinforcements") [draft paper for OD(SA)] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)21st Meeting) (1000Z) (Falklands - current assessments; Soviet long-term interest in Argentina and the Falkland Islands; immediate assessments; disclosure of US intelligence capability) [paper on Soviet intentions in the South Atlantic to be redrafted to take account of ministerial concerns "however ill-founded"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Weekend Lobby Briefings (Falkland Islands) [weekend briefings likely as long as crisis continues] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands: Cabinet, Military action, Timescale, Diplomacy, TEZ, Foreign support, Pope) ["We do not feel inhibited from using our military arm simply because diplomatic activities are still going on"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Tidepool) [postponement of delivery to Chile] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (Falkland Islands) [postponement of Tidepool delivery] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1015Z) (Falkland Islands - Soldiers Return to United Kingdom) [disciplinary action] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1030Z) (Falkland Islands: Dumbarton Castle, Leeds Castle, Bulwark, Berwick, Tartar) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman (thanks for support) ["There are many countries around the world which could suffer the consequences if aggression was rewarded in this case"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Dennis Skinner MP (Chesterfield CND letter about the Falklands campaign and nuclear weapons) ["It is of course inconceivable that Britain would use such weapons in confrontation with Argentina over the Falkland Islands"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/UN: FCO minute to ?Pym PS ("SCR 502 and Argentine military action") [precise timings for invasion of South Georgia and passage of UNSCR 502] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sinclair minute for Gillmore ("SSN ROE when contact is made with Argentine surface forces by RN forces enforcing the TEZ") [with Weston comment] [declassified Dcr 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Beagle Channel") [background note on Argentina-Chile dispute over the channel, as requested by No.10] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: position on medical emergencies") [MT asked about medical arrangements for islanders outside Port Stanley once TEZ enforced] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("ICRC and the Geneva Convention") [response to No.10 asking what ICRC was doing and whether new Argentine measures on islands breached Fourth Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders") [official review of islander morale and arrangements for those wanting to leave temporarily] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders: the Total Exclusion Zone") [reassuring message Pym thinks should be broadcast to islanders this evening by Hunt] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Role of the UN Secretary-General") [MT asked for a note on UNSG role; Article 99 of Charter; "good offices"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Nuclear cooperation between Germany and Argentina") [MT approves draft PMQ Q&A stating nothing in the story] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (draft statement if Haig proposals fail) [suitable for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO to UKE Washington draft telegram (Pym's phone call with Haig) [likely that Argentina will reject US proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th 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]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Vereker minute to MT ("Pay Announcements") [public sector pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Nicholas Scott minute for MT (“overseas information effort”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Channon minute to MT (“Royal Academy Appeal”) [Government donation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Privy Seal PS letter to No.10 (Falklands debate) [draft of Lady Young's speech as at 1300] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Keith Joseph minute for Norman Fowler (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Possible Inquiry into Medical Ethics”) [declassified 2015]

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