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Text 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0600Z) (0700, 24 May) [UN Security Council debate and possible Resolution] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Ministry of Defence press statement (0600Z) (Falkland Islands) [Argentine attack on frigates] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD press statement ("HMS Antelope Has Sunk") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym press conference remarks ("EC Budget") ["It has been a long and difficult negotiation but I am pleased ... that we have reached this agreement"; Hurd unattributable remarks] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Luxembourg Compromise: Meeting of The Ten on 24 May") [vote in the Agriculture Council] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary: “From cavalry officer to crisis commander: the quiet pragmatist the Falklands could take to the top” [profile by Julian Critchley]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Early election ruled out” [Parkinson rejects early election, Falklands "a national issue way above party politics"; Pym speech rebutted]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 58th Meeting/82 (0800Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Cancellation of JMC 823, Air Defence) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo 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 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Brigadier Harbottle (seeking peaceful resolution of crisis) ["Our cause is just"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute for MT (The Falklands conflict: latest developments) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 to FCO (“Iran-Iraq War”) [Soviet position] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cabinet: MPs’ pay”) [“result could be widely resented”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: No.10 letter to FCO ("Duty Free Requirements - Versailles Economic Summit") [G7 Summit, Versailles] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 (“The railways”) [British Rail strike] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Vatican: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Pope's Visit") [Cardinal Hume to convey to Pope view of Catholic hierarchy in Britain that visit should go ahead] [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Israeli Arms Supplies to Argentina") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Non-Combat Aircraft: Contingency Press Release") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Message to the Prime Minister from President Guzman of the Dominican Republic") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Message to the Prime Minister from the President of Colombia") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Future arrangements for settling the pay of MPs”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.6 - 24 May 1982") [news - Nott Commons statement, separate items (handling of prisoners, Junta divisions), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Walker minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [advises against abolition of Wages Councils and proposes alternative approach to reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Leslie Gander message to MT (meeting) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Gow minute to MT ("British Airways") [Treasury dispute with Sir John King over proposed senior management salary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS letter to Parkinson PS (return to UK of crew from HMS Sheffield) ["Our policy is to play this generally in a low key"; Captain and five others will give press conference at RAF Brize Norton] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dame Judith Hart letter for Whitelaw (Senor Esquivel's visit to Britain) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph PS letter to Biffen PS (refusal of information to the Select Committee on Education, Science and the Arts) [explanatory note] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Joseph PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“The financing of local authority education”) [amendments to report] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Brittan PS letter to Howell PS (“Private finance for roads”) [motorway tolls] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Department of Transport record of conversation (“BR”) [Howell, Peter Parker, Bob Reid, Clifford Rose] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 42nd (0930Z) (Political and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to MOD (OD(SA) on special operations) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (OSDA, Omani Minister of Education, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Meeting of Ministers, The Pope, Anglo-Irish relations) ["Now that our Forces were firmly established on the Islands, they would get on with the job ..." days not weeks "certainly the Government's hope .... "] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Pope John Paul II message to MT (1300Z) (urges UK and Argentina to negotiate a peace formula) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Administrator Ascension telegram to MODUK (1300Z) ("Astiz") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Panama City telegram 84 to FCO (1312Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 456 to UKREP Brussels (1330Z) ("Haig's Views on the Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 456 to UKREP Brussels (?1330Z) ("Haig's Views on the Falklands") ["It is disconcerting that Haig should be so volatile"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 456 to UKREP Brussels (1330Z) ("Haig's Views on the Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Caracas telegram 130 to FCO (1400Z) ("Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tel Aviv telegram 198 to FCO (1400Z) (Israeli resolution on the Falkland conflict) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 2063 to FCO (1412Z) ("European Political Cooperation: Meeting of Ministers of the Ten, Brussels 24 May 1982") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 2063 to FCO (1412Z) ("European Political Cooperation: Meeting of Ministers of the Ten") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1415Z) (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott statement to the House of Commons (1430Z) (amphibiuous landing at San Carlos, attacks on HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope, loss of Harriers) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Nott statement to the House of Commons (1430Z) ("Statement by the Secretary of State for Defence") [UK forces land in Falklands; military action since landings; damage to HMS Antelope] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Nott statement, Reagan, World Cup, Anglo-Irish relations) [no difference between No.10 and Nott on pace of operation - "The forces would move as fast as the situation indicated"] [released 2013]

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