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PREM19/613
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 129
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82 Mar 3 Wed Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [MT: "We must make contingency plans"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 24 Wed Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina" - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 31 Wed Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (2025Z) (intelligence reports Argentine navy preparing to invade) [MT asks Reagan to intervene with Galtieri] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 2 Fri Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (0245Z) (Reagan phone call to Galtieri) [just spoken with Galtieri: "he left me with the clear impression that he has embarked on a course of armed conflict"] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 26 Fri Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Luce, Ros and officials) ["Anglo-Argentine Ministerial Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York, 26/27 February 1982"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 20 Sat Falklands: Governor Falklands flash telegram to FCO (1125Z) ("Illegal Landing on S. Georgia") ["shots fired Argentine flag hoisted notices in English changed to Spanish"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 2 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 671 to FCO (0030Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Luce meeting with Enders] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 2 Tue Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [separate Argentine statement undercuts agreed communique - MT copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 1 Fri Falklands: UKA Buenos Aires despatch to FCO ("Argentina: Annual Review for 1981") [MT printed copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 16 Tue Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands: Annual Review") [comments on Hunt's annual review] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 28 Sun Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 188 to FCO (1344Z) ("The Falkland Islands: Anglo-Argentine Talks") [text of informal working paper] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 21 Sun Falklands: Governor Falklands flash telegram to FCO (1125Z) ("Illegal Landing on S. Georgia") [update on Davidoff landing] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 20 Sat Falklands: CINCFLEET signal to HMS Endurance (2327Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [instructions to HMS Endurance to sail for South Georgia 0930 21 Mar with marines unless situation regularised] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 20 Sat Falklands: FCO telegram 34 to Governor Falklands (1630Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") ["Ministers are being consulted urgently on deployment of HMS Endurance and of marines"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 20 Sat Falklands: Governor Falklands telegram 40 to FCO (1803Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [Hunt advises on situation in Falklands and South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 22 Mon Falklands: Chiefs of Staff Duty Officer report (events 19-22 March 1982) [account of the landing on South Georgia and British response so far] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 23 Tue Falklands: MODUK Navy telegram to CINCFLEET (2001Z) ("Carriage and Issue of Arms") [rules of engagement for use of weapons in handling Argentinians on South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 23 Tue Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 94 to FCO (2130Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [Williams meets with Costa Mendez to discuss Argentine presence in South Georgia: "the men must go"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 23 Tue Falklands: MODUK Navy telegram to RBDWCR and NP 8901 (2155Z) (instructions) ["option of deploying new NP 8901 via Punta Arenas is diplomatically unacceptable. Request you cease all action on this"] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 24 Wed Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 99 to FCO (2340Z) ("South Georgia") [Williams has further meeting with Costa Mendez; Costa Mendez having difficulties with his own Naval Commander in Chief] [declassified 2012]