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Text 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 913 to FCO (0108Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [report on Security Council proceedings] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Toyko telegram 280 to FCO (0115Z) ("Falklands/Security Council") [Japanese delegation will abstain] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Wellington telegram 185 to FCO (0500Z) ("Falklands") [Auckland businessman donates money for whiskey for British troops] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USMIS New York telegram to State Department & White House (0549Z) ("Amb Kirkpatrick's Meeting with Generals") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: European Communities Commission background report ("Falkland Island Crisis: Outline of Community Action") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Ingham note to MT (“Reagan Talks tomorrow”) [“it will be most important to agree with the Americans what is to be said afterwards”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (3 June 1982) [UN, military action, hospital ships] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 50th (0845Z) (Political and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th 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) 46 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 60 (Argentine Prisoners of War) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 4th June") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT draft telegram to Galtieri (coming Battle for Port Stanley) ["On my side, grief will be tempered by the knowledge that these men died for freedom, justice, and the rule of law. And on your side? Only you can answer that question"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 296 to FCO (0850Z) ("Falklands: Italian Reporting on Argentina") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th 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 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0900Z) ("HMS Invincible: Sale to Australia") [Australia would not hold UK to the sale if as a result of Falklands operation, UK decided to retain the ship] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Archbishop Huddleston (death sentences in South Africa) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Vatican: MT letter to the Pope ("pleasure and satisfaction" at success of Papal visit to UK) [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT to Malcolm Fraser (“Versailles economic summit and Mr Fraser’s initiative on protectionism”) [acknowledgement and assurance proposals will be discussed at Versailles] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT message to Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo ("Spain and NATO") [formal accession] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 to FCO (“Iraq-Iran: King Hussein’s Message to the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Lt Commander Astiz") [dispute with France over Astiz] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Other Territorial Disputes") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: other territorial disputes”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles summit: Prime Minister’s meeting with President Reagan on 4 June”) [”main purpose of the bilateral meeting… will be to discuss the Falklands“] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: bilateral meetings”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: briefing for Versailles summits”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“Lt Commander Astiz”) [French seeking quid pro quo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“East/West economic relations”) [US stance on export credit and existing contracts for Soviet Union] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Versailles Summit: Prime Minister's meeting with President Reagan on 4 June") [briefing] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to MOD ("Bombing of the BRITISH WYE") [further information about Argentine attack; Wye was supply fuel to task force] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Home Office letter to No.10 ("President Reagan's Visit: 7-9 June 1982") [security of assessment for Reagan's visit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: update on summit economies”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Pay Restraint and Additional Capital Investment") [public sector pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("President Reagan and the US Budget Debate") [Howe urges MT to press Reagan on US budget deficit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (pay and industrial action in the NHS) ["a critical period": red letter dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Fowler letter to Howe (NHS pay dispute) [“about to enter a critical period”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for MT (“In Vitro Fertilisation: Enquiry into Medical Ethics”) [MT accepts Mary Warnock to chair] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ted Needham letter to MT (letter of thanks) ["May I express my very sincere admiration for and congratulations on the tenacity and good sense with which you have handled the whole affair"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Italy: Coles minute to MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [arrangements for summit] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Coles minute to FCO ("Falklands: SITREPs") [arrangements for transmission of diplomatic and military SITREPs to MT while attending Versailles G7 Summit] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: PS Cockfield letter to No.10 (“Versailles summit/export credit consensus”) [“real risk that the Consensus will disintegrate”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Duport Steels Ltd”) [government takes legal action] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to Nott ("Lt Cmdr Astiz") [dispute with France and Sweden over Astiz] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.21/22 - 2/3 Jun 1982") [news - BBC interview with Mrs Thatcher, consolidation of British troops around Port Stanley; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; prisoners' rights under the Geneva Convention, lists of prisoners, "Argentine pop music"); reception/feedback] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper ("Sir A Parsons' Speech in the Security Council on 2 June 1982") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 29 (Parsons' speech in UN Security Council, 2 June 1982) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: HMQ Private Secretary letter to No.10 (£500,000 donation from Cayman Islands to South Atlantic Fund) [MT: 'Wonderful'] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 31st (1000Z) (Falkland Islands, Iran-Iraq War, Community Affairs, Index-Linked Pensions) [declassified 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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