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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Selections from this file
Showing items 61 - 80 of 92
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Falklands: Naval Deployments in November/December 1977") [research into files shows force was kept secret from Argentina] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [MT approves draft letter to Commonwealth Heads of Government] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute to No.10 (0630Z) ("Falkland Islands: SITREP at 0730, 4 April") [passage of UNSCR 502, but with much sympathy for Argentinian case on sovereignty; South Georgia confirmed to have fallen] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Minor | Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute to No.10 ("Falkland: Security Council") [draft message of thanks to President Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: FCO draft statement (Lord Privy Seal's Commons statement on the situation) ["a real expectation that an Argentine attack against the Falkland Islands will take place very soon"] [declassified Dec 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 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 5 Mo | Minor | Falklands: Edmund Vestey letter for MT (offering his help amid the Falklands crisis) [contact less good with Galtieri than his predecessors] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Dominican Prime Minister Eugenia Charles message for MT (1656Z) ("Falkland Islands") ["unprovoked violation of international law, and decency is to be unreservedly deprecated ... the Argentine act of aggression and invasion places international peace in jeopardy"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Commonwealth Secretary-General letters to MT and other Commonwealth heads of government (support) [shares MT's condemnation of "Argentina's reprehensible conduct in this matter"; "unprovoked aggression", need for Commonwealth "to stand by Britain in this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: Coles minute for Whitmore (note for the record) [MT requests analysis of recent intelligence and JIC assessments of the Falklands Islands situation] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: Coles minute for Whitmore (First Sea Lord's request for a meeting with MT) [has a suggestion re: HMS Invincible; MT asks him to talk with Whitmore] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: Coles minute for Pattison ("Falkland Islands") [MT wants Nott to speak in the next debate; will have to be another Falklands statement tomorrow] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Major | Falklands: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (freezing of Argentine financial assets) ["unavoidable risk" of reputational damage to City, but will "in present circumstances be widely understood"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 4 Su | Major | Falklands: Carrington telegram 60 to UKE Bogota (1210Z) (and Lima, Mexico City, Ottawa, Quito) ("Falkland Islands: Contingency Planning") [seeks advice as to whether their governments would agree staging and/or overflights in connection with current operation] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: Carrington telegram 51 to UKE Brasilia & other posts (2200Z) (Falklands: Carrington's and Nott's opening statements at a press conference in the FCO) ["Port Stanley is now occupied by Argentine military forces"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Major | Falklands: Carrington telegram 219 to Governor Hong Kong (1730Z) ("Falkland Islands") [advise HK ship owners not to call at Argentine ports] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Economic Measures") [plans for further economic and financial measures against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Falklands: Carrington letter to MT ("Falkland Islands: Economic Measures") ["The UK's ability, on our own, to inflict damage on Argentina is limited"] [declassified Dec 2012] |