1982 Apr 1 - 1982 Apr 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/614
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 3)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 236 |
| Any docs withheld? | 1 |
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| Date |
Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Key | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 15th (1830Z) (Falkland Islands) [decision to despatch Task Force] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Key | Falklands: FCO Defence Department minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: The Political Costs") ["hard to persuade people that the game was worth the candle" - MT's copy] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Key | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2100Z?) (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Key | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1700Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Key | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1130Z) (MT-Falklands Governor Rex Hunt-Major Norman-Major Noott) [Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Letters to & from persons leaving the Government (Atkins, Carrington, Luce) |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 65 to FCO (1441Z) ("Falkland Islands: Communiqué") [Peruvian Government "(A) reiterates its support for the recovery by the Argentine Republic of the Malvinas Islands (B) ... international controversies must be resolved peacefully"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: ?FCO draft ("Draft Joint Press Statement: Falkland Islands") [statement for Carrington and Nott] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (c1900Z) ("Falkland Islands: House of Commons Debate") [draft speech - MT's copy] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: No.10 minute for MT (c1500Z) ("Trade with Argentina") [exchanges in the Commons] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Archbishop of Canterbury letter to Pope John Paul II (hostilities in the South Atlantic) [sending his envoy Terry Waite for discussions with Cardinal Secretary of State] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Major | Falklands: FCO briefing for MT ("Falkland Islands: Economic Retaliation Against Argentina") ["the scope for effective action ... is very limited"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT asked today "what scope there might be for increasing internal opposition to the Argentine regime"; BBC External Services broadcasting] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Prime Minister of Belize message to MT (0800Z) ("Falkland Islands") ["deplores and condemns the armed invasion"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: UKE Lisbon telegram 52 to FCO (1650Z) (conversation with Portuguese Foreign Minister) ["strong condemnation of Argentine action"; understood importance of bringing "utmost pressure to bear" on Argentina] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: UKHC Singapore telegram 81 to FCO (0920Z) (Singapore Government statement) ["strongly deplores Argentina's invasion and occupation"; will form basis of Lee Kuan Yew reply to MT letter] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Prime Minister of Nepal message for MT (1200Z) ("Falkland Islands") [deplores use of force] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Major | Falklands: Pattison record of conversation (1800Z) (Pattison-Nott's PS ) [Nott's engagements for Sunday; military planning; "Nott had got the message from today's discussions ... the MOD was now effectively on a 'war footing'"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: BBC Monitoring Service transcript (1600Z) ("Opening Announcement by Argentina Radio") ["the republic, by means of its armed forces ... has recovered the Malvinas Islands"] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [need to examine charge that analysis of Argentine public statements and press should have given warning of invasion] [declassified Dec 2012] |