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Text 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1709 to FCO (0005Z) ("Satellite Coverage of Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1712 to FCO (0021Z) ("Falklands: Haig's Travel Plans") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Library of Congress) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (0210Z) ("Comments of Argentine Government officials on relations with the United States and other countries as a result of the dispute over the Falkland Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 728 to FCO (0257Z) ("Falklands") [Parsons gives account of talks with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO Press Office note to PS (Falkland Islands) [Argentine statements "reaffirming their line on sovereignty for them"; easy to discredit Ros tomorrow if you want us to] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0630Z) (Falkland Islands: UN - State of negotiations, Parsons' assessment; US - Haig's schedule) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 12 May 1982) [state of negotiations at the UN] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 32nd (0830Z) (Diplomatic and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 968 to UKE Washington (0854Z) ("Falklands: General Walters' Remarks") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 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 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Note for Wednesday meeting (weekly report on market conditions, official activity and rates in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay and charges for the Armed Forces) [acceptance of recommendations; thanks for service in post] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dafydd Wigley MP (Plaid Cymru views of crisis) [regrets they cannot support the British case; government attempting to use peaceful means] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Council of Agriculture Ministers Meeting on 10 - 11 May") [Walker statement to Parliament: "Presidency proposals on a number of major elements in the 1982/83 price fixing"; UK sole voice of dissent] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Legislative programme 1982-83”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community affairs") [EC budget; CAP price package; negotiations on classification of EC expenditure; Argentine trade embargo; fisheries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [draft telegrams to Parsons regarding UN negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Captain Astiz") [MT endorses Pym's advice to hold Astiz longer in light of French requests to interview him] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands - US Guarantee") [MT rejects compromising tone of draft message to Reagan: "If anything my views are hardening"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Non-Combat Aircraft: Contingency Press Release") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 18, 1982 Series ("Confidence in the Conservatives") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Brittan minute to MT ("Financial Management") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Whitmore minute to MT ("Falkland Islands Inquiry") [composition and terms of reference: arrangements for meeting to discuss] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: Finsberg PS letter to No.10 ("Direct labour in the Health Service: response to a letter in the Financial Times, 6 May 1982") [request for clearance of draft text] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Willie Whitelaw (Radio Frequency Review) [costs of review] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: McMahon record of conversation (McMahon-Wass, Ryrie) [George Shultz's recent visit to Chequers - US concern at bureaucratisation of summit; Treasury opposition to a free trade initiative at the summit] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute for Coles (Electronic counter-measures against Exocet missiles) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (problems with proposed attendance of Alan Walters at meetings of E(DL)) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens letter to Laurens van der Post (arrangements for MT interviews) ["Her diary between now and the end of July is horrific"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Paris signal to MODUK (0815Z) ("Sunday Times article on Anglo/French cooperation over Falklands crisis") [conversation with Hernu's Chef de Cabinet yesterday] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 231 to FCO (0945Z) ("The Situation in the Falkland Islands: US Reports") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [Parliament], Falkland Islands, ETB, Pope) ("it was still the British position that there could be no ceasefire without a commitment to a verifiable withdrawal") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKHC Nairobi telegram 242 to FCO (1001Z) (UNEP Special Session: Falklands) [statement by Argentine representative not explicitly referring to Falklands, so British minister will not refer to it in his speech either] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Holy See telegram 23 to FCO (1005Z) ("The Pope's Visit") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 232 to FCO (1005Z) ("Falklands and ICRC") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 record of conversation (1030Z) (MT, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Howell, Lawson, Tebbit, Brittan) [“The railways”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym remarks outside No.10 (1030Z) (Falkland Islands) ["so promise of progress ... but ... many difficult problems still remain"]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott letter to French Defence Minister Hernu (1730Z) (regret at UK press reports criticising France for providing weapons to Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 49th Meeting/82 (1040Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 144 to FCO (1055Z) ("Falklands") [FitzGerald critical of Haughey's policy - "the unnecessary breach with Britain ... to play for votes at home"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1130Z) ("Repatriation of Argentinian Prisoners of War") (arrangements) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press statement (1130Z) (Falkland Islands) [progress of the Task Force] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press statement (1130Z) ("Prisoners of War from the Narwal") [arrangements for repatriation] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Falkland Islands: 12 May 1982") ("We are continuing to work with maximum intensity at the United Nations") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 203 to Department of Trade (1230Z) ("Orissa Steel Plant") [project's future uncertain] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram 117 to FCO (1320Z) ("Journalists") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Salaries, Falkland Islands) ("Ministers wanted to keep all military options open") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: UKE Washington telegram 1713 to FCO (1515Z) (Falkland Islands: Washington Post Interview with General Iglesias) (Iglesias quoted as saying "the practical exercise of our rights over the Islands as an integral part of the national territory") [released 2013]

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