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PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 222 to FCO (1530Z) ("Falklands") [Palazzo Chigi communique expresses "profound apprehension and great disquiet at the recent serious developments"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Italian Foreign Minister Colombo letter to Pym (Italian Government's viewpoint) [solidarity with UK, but concern at Argentine resentment against Europe and possible "marxist turn" in its politics] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: PSO CDS minute for CNS PS ("Chequers on Sunday") [Chiefs, CINCFLEET, PUS, SECCOS invited to lunch on Sunday at 1230] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 184/742/1 ("Falkland Islands: US Assistance") [further draft; possible lend/lease of a US attack carrier] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Note circulated to members of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS(Misc) 185/742/1 ("Maintenance of a British garrison in the Falkland Islands") [levels, logistics, upgrading Port Stanley airport] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS briefing for CDS ("COS 38th meeting/82 at 1700 on Friday 30 April 1982") [list of relevant papers in his folder] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for Chiefs of Staff Committee 38th Meeting/82 (1530Z) (Intelligence; Own Forces; PR; Actions & Decisions Required; Falkland Islands Landing Operations - Reinforcements; South Georgia airstrip; Defence of Ascension Island; Unforeseen matters) [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 38th Meeting/82 (1530Z) (HMS Illustrious, Supply of US Equipment) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 38th Meeting/82 (1530Z) (HMS Illustrious, Supply of US Equipment) [full text] [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1534 to FCO (1537Z) ('Falklands') ["Haig is happy that you should come here this weekend"; come first to Washington, to discuss how to handle UN] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1525 to FCO (1539Z) ("Your telnos 874 and 875: Falklands") [textual changes; conversation with Haig] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1533 to FCO (1605Z) ("Falklands: Haig's statement") [text of statement made by Haig at 1530] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 612 to FCO (1610Z) ("Falkland Islands") [points made by Costa Mendez in meeting President of Security Council] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House Press Secretary briefing (1611Z) (extract on Falklands) [US 'tilt']
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1536 to FCO (1657Z) ('Falklands' - Haig's statement") [Haig said not "plain-sailing to get it through NSC"; Kirkpatrick a source of trouble] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 67 to UKE Dublin (1700Z) ("Falklands: Legality of TEZ") [MacKernan said TEZ contrary to international law - put following explanation to him] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 613 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Costa Mendez meeting with UN Secretary-General; role of UNSG in crisis, rumours of role for the Aga Khan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1537 to FCO (1737Z) ("Argentina: US measures") [US "still baulking" at import ban, pleading legal and administrative problems "but the real difficulties are clearly political"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1538 to FCO (1738Z) ("Argentina: US measures") ["it is a question of a political decision which can only be taken at the highest level"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 193 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands: Peruvian/Argentine military cooperation") [Chlieans told by Argentinians that Peru is loaning Mirage aircraft and pilots to Argentina; perhaps misinformation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 93 to UKE Brasilia (1749Z) ("Brazilian message on Falklands") [reply from Pym] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1755Z) ("Après Galtieri le deluge?") [speculations as to future in Argentinian politics if Britain recaptures the islands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1539 to FCO (1808Z) ("Falklands: President Reagan") [text of his remarks - "the aggression was on the part of Argentina ... that little ice-cold bunch of land down there"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig off the record briefing for press (1830Z) (US 'tilt' towards Britain) [UK "reasonable and forthcoming", Argentina "less so"] [declassified 2002]
Text 82 Apr 30 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Reagan (Ronald) Falklands: Presidential Remarks on Falklands (1659Z) (extract from Q&A with Mid-Western editors and broadcasters) ["little ice-cold bunch of land" - "armed aggression of that kind must not be allowed to succeed"]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Secretary's press conference (evening, before visiting US)
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong record of conversation (evening) (Armstrong, Palliser and French Ambassador) [French concern at leak of information that they had been assisting Britain with military information] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 30 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to Mid-Bedfordshire Conservatives (1900Z) (Falklands)
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1540 to FCO (1900Z) ("Argentine debt") [Argentine Economic Minister in Washington - read-out from US Treasury suggests mixed picture] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") ["likely Argentine defeat by the UK" might lead to pro-Soviet government] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Burt action memorandum to Eagleburger ("Argentine Request for LANDSAT Coverage of Falklands Area") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum to Weinberger ("UK Request for Support") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Quito telegram 61 to FCO (2107Z) ("Falklands: US Sanction") [Ecuadorean MFA statement criticising US tilt] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 61 to FCO (2135Z) ("Press summary") [top news is blockade declared by Argentina in response to British TEZ] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1543 to FCO (2144Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [prominent reporting of Senate resolution] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 144 to FCO (2220Z) ("Falklands: United Nations Involvement") [Brazilians urging Perez De Cuellar to involve himself now Haig mediation over; US tilt towards UK not a problem between Brazil and US] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 614 to FCO (2251Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to (2245Z) ("Operation Corporate - Requisition of Shipping") [movement of 5 Brigade] [declassified Jun 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 615 to FCO (2253Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Costa Mendez press conference following his meeting with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Law of the Sea, El Salvador") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1548 to FCO (2318Z) ("Falklands") [further public comment by Reagan, on aid to British and diplomacy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1549 to FCO (2318Z) ("Falklands") [comment on Costa Mendez at UN; Haig still hopes to play a negotiating role] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1550 to FCO (2322Z) ("Falklands: Nuclear Weapons") [US press reports Task Force armed with tactical nuclear weapons and that commander had authority to use them] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1551 to FCO (2350Z) ("Falklands: your visit to Washington and New York") [itinerary and arrangements] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1552 to FCO (2351Z) ("Argentina: US economic sanctions") [sanctions announced focus on export-import credit; Haig acknowledges amounts involved not "very substantial" but will impact confidence] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1553 to FCO (2352Z) ("US military exports to Argentina") [sanctions do not apply to items on the commercial list, such as engines for military planes - "far from satisfactory"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1555 to FCO (2356Z) ("US military exports to Argentina") [Eagleburger told we would regard it as "a stab in the back" if any US exports found their way to Argentine military] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Rentschler MSS) Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (NSC meeting decides on 'tilt' to UK) ["The moment of South Atlantic truth is upon us"]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 minute to Rees PS (Orissa Steel Plant) [briefing for MT on status of Davy Corporation Ltd's negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Thailand: Prime Minister Tinsulanonda of Thailand to MT (thanks for hospitality; UK-Thailand relations) [released 2013]

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