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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 6 Tue Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia: Chronology of Events") [19 March - 5 April] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 8 Thu Falklands: Bahamian PM Pindling letter to MT (support) [sent to No.10 on 29 Apr] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 23 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington record of conversation (Pym-Judge Clark) [Judge Clark floats trusteeship idea] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 24 Sat Falklands: FCO telegram 64 to UKHC Ottawa and others (1122Z) ("Commonwealth and Falkland Islands") [Prime Ministerial thanks for support] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 26 Mon TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands)
82 Apr 26 Mon Falklands: UK Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British recapture of South Georgia) [Britain acting in self-defence under Article 51]
82 Apr 26 Mon Falklands: UKE Holy See telegram 21 to FCO (1515Z) ("Falklands: military operations") [conversation with Monsignor Silvestrini] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: Haig telegram 31 to Pym (0237Z) (Haig to take further proposals to Argentines) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1471 to FCO (0455Z) ("Falklands") [Haig receives three proposals from Argentines] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [killing of Argentine POW on South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: MT message to President Shagari of Nigeria (thanks for support; concern about oil prices) [released 2013]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks for message of support on recapture of South Georgia) [released 2013]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1473 to FCO (1220Z) ("Falklands") [Haig says US Ambassador to Argentina en route to hand US proposals to Galtieri] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1474 to FCO (1642Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Weinberger - considering further US help to UK if talks break down because of Argentinian intransigence] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1486 to FCO (2304Z) ("Argentina: Arms Supplies") [reports of US sale of Skyhawk engines to Argentina; US Customs blocked shipment for refurbishment in Italy] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue 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 27 Tue Falklands: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (draft reply to Non-Aligned Movement) [historical justification of British claim] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 175 to FCO (0116Z) ("Falkland Islands") [supportive statement issued by Australian Government] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue 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 27 Tue Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Argentinian prisoner") [shooting on South Georgia - British obligations under Third Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]