1982 Apr 30 - 1982 May 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/623
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 12)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2012 Dec 28 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 231 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| 82 May 2 Su | Key | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1525 to FCO (0423Z) ("Falklands") [text of draft statement to be issued by Haig] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: Haig telegram 1526 to Pym (0426Z) ('Falklands') [Argentina rejecting US proposals; Britain negotiating in good faith; US statement not possible before Friday] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 1 Sa | Major | Falklands: No.10 Duty Clerk to MT ("Sitrep on this morning's action") [Vulcan and Harrier attack on Port Stanley airport] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Major | Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 2 May) [Vulcan & naval attacks on Port Stanley airport; Galtieri speech] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (2215Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington") [account of Pym's meeting with Haig; Reagan says UK Forces are "doing the work of the free world"; Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1569 to FCO (2300Z) ("Falklands: Your Talk with Haig") [clarification of Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1524 to FCO (0415Z) ('Falklands') [Renwick meeting with Eagleburger before NSC; draft Haig statement] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1527 to FCO (0418Z) ('Falklands' - US tilt) ["I hope you will agree this puts the Americans squarely on our side. We can discuss imports later"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1528 to FCO (0545Z) ("Falklands/Congress") [Senate resolution supportive of UK position passed 79:1, Helms dissenting (29 Apr); Biden, Moynihan and Percy sponsoring] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1532 to FCO (1459Z) ("Argentine debt") [visit of Argentine Economic Minister to Washington; deteriorating position; possible problems for Brazil, Chile also] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1534 to FCO (1537Z) ('Falklands') ["Haig is happy that you should come here this weekend"; come first to Washington, to discuss how to handle UN] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1533 to FCO (1605Z) ("Falklands: Haig's statement") [text of statement made by Haig at 1530] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1536 to FCO (1657Z) ('Falklands' - Haig's statement") [Haig said not "plain-sailing to get it through NSC"; Kirkpatrick a source of trouble] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1537 to FCO (1737Z) ("Argentina: US measures") [US "still baulking" at import ban, pleading legal and administrative problems "but the real difficulties are clearly political"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1538 to FCO (1738Z) ("Argentina: US measures") ["it is a question of a political decision which can only be taken at the highest level"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1539 to FCO (1808Z) ("Falklands: President Reagan") [text of his remarks - "the aggression was on the part of Argentina ... that little ice-cold bunch of land down there"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1540 to FCO (1900Z) ("Argentine debt") [Argentine Economic Minister in Washington - read-out from US Treasury suggests mixed picture] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1543 to FCO (2144Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [prominent reporting of Senate resolution] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1549 to FCO (2318Z) ("Falklands") [comment on Costa Mendez at UN; Haig still hopes to play a negotiating role] [declassified 2012] |