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Text 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 432 to FCO (0005Z) ("Mexico and the Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 850 to FCO (0040Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 850 to FCO (0040Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 851 to FCO (0105Z) ("Falklands: River Plate") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1901 to FCO (0105Z) ("Falklands: Exclusion Zone/River Plate") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 852 to FCO (0106Z) ("Falklands: River Plate") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 853 to FCO (0107Z) ("Falklands: River Plate") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1902 to FCO (0120Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 854 to FCO (0200Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USMIS New York telegram to State Department (0200Z) ("Falkland Islands Situation: Amb. Kirkpatrick's Meeting with Gen. Miret") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 855 to FCO (0305Z) (Falklands: Security Council: Parsons' Statement) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Media in Recess") [interviews with Len Downie of the Washington Post, and BBC/ITN] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers ("Falkland Islands: 26 May") ["Argentine intransigence in diplomatic negotiations has made it necessary for us to use force in exercise of our right of self defence"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Situation Report (0600Z) (Falkland Islands: Security Council, Resolutions, US Attitude, River Plate, Latin American Attitudes, OAS Meeting, Non-Aligned Meeting) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0600Z) (0700, 26 May) [UN Security Council debate] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO SITREP detailed version (0600Z) (UN, US attitude, River Plate, Latin American attitudes) ["Our support emerged more clearly as the debate developed"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 60th Meeting/82 (0800Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 60th Meeting/82 (0800Z) (Operation Corporate - intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 May 26 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 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 44th (0900Z) (Political and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 45 (The Falkland Crisis: Economic Retaliation Against the UK by Argentina and other South American States) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Foreign Secretary ("OD(82)56: British Policy in the Antarctic") [grant to British Antarctic Survey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (export credit interest rates) [protecting the UK’s competitive position] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The railways”) [British Rail strike] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Chancellor Schmidt and reprocessing at Windscale”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Sir Richard Butler (fixing farm prices) ["important developments since you wrote, which the Minister of Agriculture described in his statement to the House of Commons on 19 May"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Message to President Lopez Portillo") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay: Improvements in Other Conditions of Service") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mount minute to MT ("Renewing the Values of Society") [MT: "I am very pleased with these ideas"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell PS letter to No.10 (“The railways”) [British Rail redundancy payments] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Heseltine minute to MT (transfer of Overseas Diplomatic Estate from Department of Environment to FCO) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Pym minute to MT ("The Luxembourg Compromise and Next Steps on the Budget") [EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (visit to the UK) [thanks, good talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) New Zealand: Prime Minister Muldoon letter to MT (thanks for hospitality on visit to UK) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (“Credit restrictions for the Soviet Union”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT ("Manuel Ulloa") [regrets not having seen you on this visit; warns against bombing Argentine air bases; Dr Caldera] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (draft reply for MT to David Steel MP about the South Atlantic Fund) [No.10 decides no need to write] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to FCO ("Non-Combat Aircraft: Contingency Press Release") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.8 - 26 May 1982") [news - Nott statement, beachhead build up papal visit to Britain and Argentina; separate items (military situation), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to FCO ("Israeli Arms Supplies to Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to FCO ("Israeli Arms Supplies to Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 495 to FCO (1630Z) ("Falklands: The German Attitude") ["typical signs of angst"; Schmidt saying publicly that German support for British position was not a blank cheque] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Policy towards Japan”) [need for a coherent strategy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Presentation to NEDC on inner city initiatives") [National Economic Development Council; Howe's suggested additions to Heseltine speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Rickett note for the file ("Visit of President Reagan") [note on Rickett's further meeting with Presidential aides] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Whitelaw PS letter to Pym PS ("British Nationality Act 1981: Designation of Service under Section 2(3)") [applicable categories of employment for parents of UK citizen children born abroad] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Walters minute to Scholar ("CPRS Unemployment Study") [Walters recommends bringing forward publication of the report] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 20, 1982 Series ("The Battle Against Inflation") [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 68 to UKE Asuncion (0930Z) "Falkland Islands: Rio Treaty Meeting: 27 May") [declassified Dec 2012]

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