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1982 Apr 27 - 1982 Apr 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/622
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 288
Any docs withheld? 3

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82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1499 to FCO (2044Z) ("Call on Haig: Falklands") [Haig 'seething' at NSC errors in press briefing by Norman Bailey] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: BDS Washington to FCO (1730Z) ("Possible covert attack on Ascension Island aircraft facilities") [USAF acknowledges reports based on analysis, not hard intelligence] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: FCO telegram 861 to UKE Washington (2030Z) ("Falklands: conversation with Haig") [account of Pym call to Haig at 1910 - state of talks with Costa Mendez] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1510 to FCO (1647Z) ("Falklands") ["easier for US to come down emphatically on our side if they can leave no doubt that the blame for the breakdown of the negotiations lay exclusively with the Argentinians"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1511 to FCO (1948Z) ("Falklands") [further talk with Haig - he is not thinking of publishing US proposals because sees it would be difficult for HMG; wording of US statement on breakdown of negotiations] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1517 to FCO (2148Z) ("Falklands") [Eagleburger giving Henderson a copy of Costa Mendez letter to Haig; text of letter] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram 871 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Argentina: import ban") [EC import ban hard to sustain if US does not follow suit if it tilts to UK, but do not hint of doubt on this score] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 575 to FCO (1726Z) ("Exchanges in the House of Commons about the Secretary-General's appeal") [defusing the story] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: British Information Service New York telegram 4 to FCO (1620Z) ("Falkland Islands: US public opinion") [Harris poll shows strong support for British view but also for US staying neutral in event of war] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 601 to FCO (1946Z) ("Further notification to Argentina") [draft response to Argentine claim Britain could not enforce TEZ under Article 51] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 606 to FCO (0046Z) ("Falkland Islands at the UN") [Security Council has "atmosphere of great tension and expectation eg of a dramatic military move by us any day now"; danger of diplomatic vacuum when Haig talks end] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 179 to FCO (2130Z) ("Falklands: press allegations about Chilean/UK military cooperation") [story in Daily Star, perhaps being "fed Argentinian disinformation ... to tarnish the current Chilean neutral stance"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: UKE Caracas telegram 136 to FCO (2145Z) ("Venezuela/Guyana") [rumours of Venezuelan intention to invade Guyana] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 295 to FCO (1350Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Pik Botha - Savimbi says Soviet planes flying reconaissance over Task Force from airbase in Luanda; claims South African government had sympathy and goodwill towards British stand over Falklands] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 182 to FCO (2110Z) ("Falklands/Chile/OAS") [MFA source says Pinochet overruled his MFA to insiste Chile abstain on upcoming Argentine resolution at OAS, regarding Galtieri as having no future] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKHC New Delhi telegram 431 to FCO (0700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with Mrs Gandhi - 'unsatisfactory', but she understood British points; will try to maintain some sort of balance between the two sides] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 337 to FCO (2230Z) ("Meeting with Mexican President") [Lopez Portillo "anxious to help in any way but did not want to cut across the refforts of others"; "hard to be optimistic" about Haig talks; invasion launched by Junta "to distract attention from their failures at home"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 24 Sa Major Falklands: FCO telegram 64 to UKHC Ottawa and others (1122Z) ("Commonwealth and Falkland Islands") [Prime Ministerial thanks for support] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Argentinian prisoner") [shooting on South Georgia - British obligations under Third Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (1800Z) ("Falklands: Japanese position") [disappointment at Japanese refusal to introduce import ban; MT agrees reply "in rather stiff terms" to PM Suzuki] [declassified 2012]