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Text 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 652 to FCO (0044Z) ("Falkland Islands: Security Council") [Irish decision to mobilise the Security Council causes "consternation"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: President Reagan letter for MT (0204Z) (Falkland Islands crisis: negotiations with Argentina) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1597 to FCO (0400Z) ("Falklands") [Henderson has three-hour meeting with Haig to discuss Pym's proposals; Haig strongly urges UK to seek to negotiate a settlement] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1598 to FCO (0405Z) ("Falklands") [Haig's latest peace proposals] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1599 to FCO (0410Z) ("Falklands") [Haig's new proposals and suggested procedure for peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1599 to FCO (0410Z) ("Falklands") [timetable for implementation of Haig's latest peace proposals] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig telegram 1600 to Pym (0415Z) (Haig urges UK compromise and accept US peace proposal) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Haig telegram 1600 to Pym (0415Z) (Haig urges UK to compromise and accept US peace proposal) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Haig message to EC Foreign Ministers (0418Z) (urges support for UK) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Haig letter for Pym (0606Z) (Falkland Islands crisis: British proposals) [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (5 May 1982, 0730) [US/Peru peace plan, UN Security Council, OAS, HMS Sheffield, Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 200 to FCO (0634Z) ("Falkland Islands: Australian Prime Minister") [Malcolm Fraser question and answer in Austrialian Parliament] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 26th (0800Z) (Military and Diplomatic Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to MODUK (0835Z) ("Israeli Weapons in the Falklands") [Israeli Aircraft Industries Marketing Director apologises for use of one of his company's products in sinking of HMS Sheffield] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We 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 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Falkland Islands: 5 May) ["We hope that these contacts may lead to early progress"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Thailand: MT letter to Prime Minister Tinsulanonda (thanks for letter) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT to Harold Watkinson (thanks) [letter “has a prophetic quality”] [released 2017]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (morning) (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [loss of HMS Sheffield; US/Peru peace proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet, 6 May: TSRB") [Top Salaries Review Body: "size of any abatement to the award, and the timing of the announcement"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (“The threatened dock strike; and the BR/ASLEF dispute”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“The threatened dock strikes; and the BR/ASLEF dispute”) [“this has been a nasty scare”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (advice on possible visit of former President Rafael Caldera of Venezuela to MT) [advises that MT receives Caldera] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Chequers meeting of ODSA on 2 May") [Argentine POWs and jamming of BBC Latin American service] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service Numbers") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("TSRB") ["If the Cabinet decides... to abate the [Top Salaries Review Body's] recommendations and to announce that decision... we shall need to consider how best to handle Lord Plowden"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Timing of annoucement of TSRB decisions") [Top Salaries Review Body; concerns about pre-emptive annoucement having negative effect on schoolteachers'/nurses' arbitration processes] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [CAP price package/revaluation of the green pound/milk surplus; mandatory production quotas on steel] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Baroness Young minute to MT ("The Youth Training Scheme and the Civil Service") [MT: "I am very strongly against this"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas paper for MT ("A Future Settlement in the Falklands Crisis") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute to MT (Pym's minute about the Argentine aircraft carrier) [Armstrong argues that carrier should not be attacked unless it changes course] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DS17 minute to Cooper ("Deployment of Nuclear Weapons within the Falklands Task Group") [current situation - HMS Sheffield surveillance round removed on 16 Apr; HMS Coventry still has one, Leach examining removal - Nott comments: "IMMEDIATELY"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Acland letter to Cooper ("Falkland Islands: Nuclear Weapons") [glad to have Cooper's assurance that HMS Sheffield's surveillance round had been removed before it was sunk; asks about other ships] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Inquiry") [thoughts on nature of inquiry] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT (Argentine aircraft carrier) ["so long as the carrier is on its present course and in its present posture, our justification for attacking it would be questionable"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Fowler minute to MT ("Public Sector Pay") [TSRB announcement and NHS pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 (Madagascar negotiations with the IMT) ["of strategic importance... a change of government might carry the country into the Soviet camp"; draft reply from MT to President Ratsiraka] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to Nott ("South Africa") [suggested response to possible offer by South Africa of naval and support facilities to UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMT letter to FCO ("Financial Restrictions on the Argentine") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Walker ("CAP price fixing: Green Pound") [Walker/Howe difference of views over revaluation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hancock minute to Coles ("30 May Mandate: Meeting of Foreign Ministers on 8/9 May") [EC Budget negotiations: briefing for planning meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Lord Cockfield ("British Airways") ["The Price Waterhouse analysis of... [BA] deficiencies makes disturbing reading"; consequent remedial priorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Steggle minute to Fearn ("British Assistance for Survivors of General Belgrano") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pearson letter to CMR (report from Pearson's contact in Buenos Aires) [Costa Mendez in favour again with "his master" so no longer seeking private line to London] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands/Brazil: Gow letter to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (thanks for documents on Brazil) [Galtieri's close relationship with Brazilian President] [released 2016]
PDF 82 May 5 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Italy/Falklands: Italian PM Spadolini statement (Falklands) [call for suspension of hostilities and negotiation on basis of UNSCR 502; Italian policy said to be in line with that of FRG & France]

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