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PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 19 (1100Z) (UN negotiations, meeting of EC Foreign Ministers, paying for Falklands operations, HMS Britannia, Narwal attack, Pym at HoC Foreign Affairs Committee) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 383 to UKMIS New York (1120Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 162 to UKMIS Geneva (1215Z) ("Falklands and ICRC") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram to UKE Athens (1300Z) ("Falklands: EC Ban") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 May 11 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z)
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (1430Z) (Takacs, Middendorf) [negotiations with Argentina] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Korea: MT message to President Chun of South Korea (1530Z) (MT's tour of East Asia) [MT unable to visit South Korea] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: USE London telegram to Williams and Burkhalter (1538Z) ("Falkland Islands Military Options") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires record of conversation (1100Z) (Shlaudeman, Galtieri) [Falklands crisis] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 327 to FCO (1700Z) ("Falkland Islands - Arms Sales") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 326 to FCO (1720Z) ("Falkland Islands - Arms Sales") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Copenhagen telegram 120 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands: EC Ban") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Figueiredo (1830Z) (response to his message of sympathy following HMS Sheffield attack) ["for our part we will spare no effort to achieve a peaceful negotiated solution"] [declassified Spt 2016]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1699 to FCO (1850Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: No.10 record of conversation (1900Z) (MT-Committee of university Vice-Chancellors and Principals) [situation in UK universities] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Italy: Secretary Haig memo for President Reagan ("Your Meeting with PM Spadolini of Italy") [NATO, Libya, Falklands, Central America; meeting also with President Pertini] [declassified 2002]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Eagleburger memorandum to Haig ("Falkland Crisis") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Talking points prepared in the State Department ("Points for Guerreiro") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands/Chile: State Department telegram to USE Santiago (1909Z) ("Chile certification") [Chilean officials in Washington seeking assurance Chilean certification not held hostage to Argentinian; discussion of Letelier and human rights issues remaining obstacles] [declassified 2000]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram 1700 to FCO (1920Z) (Falkland Islands: Argentinian Views on Sovereignty) [quotes from Argentinian official "acknowledging that Argentina had dropped its insistence that its sovereignty be recognised before withdrawal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram to UKE Brasilia (2115Z) ("Warships in South Atlantic") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, Israeli Military Buildup, The OECD Ministerial and Shultz's Meeting with Mitterrand") [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 716 to FCO (2342Z) ("Falklands: Argentine Notification of UK Shipping") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1706 to FCO (2350Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 160 to FCO (2350Z) ("Warships in South Atlantic") [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters continues to push his Falklands solution] [released 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 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 May 11 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 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [Parliament], Falklands: timing, Panorama, films and pictures, Football, MPs' pay, Hanging) ("we had quite a lot of time is still needed to explore every diplomatic avenue") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office brief (1600Z) ("Falklands correspondence coming to No 10") (coming in at a rate of about 900 a day) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cooper letter to Acland ("Falkland Islands: Nuclear Weapons") ["I quite understand and totally share ... your concern"; location of surveillance rounds; Coventry round will be removed as soon as tactical situation permits] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Fenn minute for Ure ("General Walters") [Reuters report of him calling Falklands "an absolutely pointless war ... a conflict of two machismos"; "With friends like these ..."] [declassified 28 Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Weston briefing for Pym & Acland ("ODSA: 12 May: Rationalisation of ROEs") ["frankly the paper is a mess ... almost reached the point where plain language designed to ensure clear understanding is being deliberately suppressed"; TEZ extension - concerns of Uruguay & Chile] [declassified Dec 2012]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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