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PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Falkland Islands: 5 May) ["We hope that these contacts may lead to early progress"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Falkland Islands: 6 May) ["we are continuing our work with all urgency to achieve a negotiated settlement as soon as possible"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0930Z) (Falkland Islands) [Task Force pay] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], All party talks, Falkland Islands) ["People were forgetting who fired the first shot"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1000Z) (Falkland Islands) [all-party talks] [released 2013]
Text 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1000Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Sheffield) ["We are considering our options as to what to do with her"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: John Nott press conference (Falkland Islands) ["The support which we have received has greatly heartened us"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1100Z) (Falkland Islands - Last HM Ship Sunk in Enemy Action) [sunk 1945] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1100Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Sheffield) [disciplinary action] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: BBC Radio Interview for World at One (Sir Anthony Williams on the Falklands) [Parsons: "We will put in substantive proposals, we will then see if there is a possibility of making progress here"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1100Z) (Falkland Islands - "Scrap" Vulcans) [proposed landing site] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Civil service pay, Media, Falkland Islands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1515Z) (Criminal Justice Bill, Northern Ireland Bill, Falkland Islands) ["the Lord President said the British response was designed to be constructive and to give a lift to negotiations"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1515Z) (Falkland Islands - HMS Liverpool) [will be joining Task Force] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1900Z) (Falklands - Diplomatic Initiatives) ["There could be no question of any ceasefire without Argentine withdrawal"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.131 (Prime Minister's meeting with Governor of the Falklands and Mr Cheek and Mr Luxton) [MT "made clear how deeply she felt for the Islanders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.132 (Falklands - Trusteeship) ["There is a rumour going the rounds that the Inner Cabinet are keen on the idea of Trusteeship"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note to press officers (Falkland Islands: 7 May: Post Press Conference) ["Argentine intransigence has - now for the second time - pushed off the table constructive proposals"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Falkland Islands) ["The Task Force continues to enforce the Total Exclusion Zone"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Falkland Islands - Reports of an Argentine vessel being hit by a Bofors gun off South Georgia) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Injured Argentine seaman) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Falkland Islands - KC 135 Tankers) [possible use of US refuelling tankers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Two Harriers lost, Geest port) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press announcement (Falkland Islands) [air-to-air refuelling] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (PM's day, Falkland Islands) ["There was no evidence that the Argentines were prepared to come off the Islands and no evidence that they would allow negotiations to go ahead unprejudiced"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (PM's day, Falkland Islands) ["We emphasised that we had given no ultimatum nor set any deadline, though we repeated the point about the need to avoid being shunted into a siding while the Argentines played for time"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1040Z) (Exocet interception, Sheffield survivors) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0930Z) (Illustrious, Additional 4 frigates) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press statement (1100Z) (HMS Sheffield survivors) ["They will be brought home to UK as soon as opportunities arise"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0920Z) (Argentine reports of landing in the Falklands) [reports that Task Force has begun an attack are not true] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (0920Z) (PR guidance - Hercules being converted for air-to-air tanker role) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Thames TV Interview for Weekend World (John Nott interviewed on the Falklands) [Nott: "we have not invaded the Falkland Islands, although we are of course continuing to enforce the total exclusion zone"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1230Z) (Casualty reporting) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: MoD press statement (1300Z) (Repatriation of Argentine PoWs) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (1315Z) (PR guidance - Victoria Cross) [released 2013]
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