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PREM19/639
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 28)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 224
Any docs withheld? 2

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82 Jul 21 We Major Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram to FCO ("Air and sea links") ["in present circumstances the Chilean government would probably turn down any request for air services"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 21 We Major Falklands: UK Ambassador Montevideo despatch to Pym ("The Falklands crisis - as seen from Montevideo") [report] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 22 Th Major Falklands: Nott PS letter to No.10 ("Falklands Islands: lifting of the total exclusion zone") [MT statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 22 Th Major Falklands: Pym telegram to UKE Paris ("Falkland Islands Rehabilitation - EEC Assistance") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 23 Fr Major Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Argentina: return of Rolls Royce aircraft engines") ["no legal grounds for preventing the return of the engines"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 23 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Falkland Islands: Prime Minister's Statement to Parliament on Lifting of TEZ and 12 Mile Limit") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 25 Su Major Falklands: Port Stanley telegram to FCO ("Falklands SITREP") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 26 Mo Major Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 767 to FCO (1232Z) ("Exocets") ['Sunday Times' allegations of French arms aid to Argentina; Hernu says the Dassault technician interviewed was "mad, drunk or in search of fame or money"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 26 Mo Major Falklands: Lord Shackleton letter to MT ("Falkland Islands Economic Study 1982") [MT: "We shall be considering the Report urgently and I shall certainly want to discuss it with you in due course"; Study noted to contain sensitive information to be withheld from version released to the public] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 26 Mo Major Falklands: No.10 minute to Nott PS ("Falklands: War Graves") ["the Prime Minister particularly hopes that the war graves will have been completed by the time of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of British authority"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 26 Mo Major Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Exocet: Sunday Times Allegations") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO telegram 93 to UKHC Port Stanley (1015Z) ("Committee of 24") [request for Falkand Islands representatives to appear before the Committee] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Allegations of French help for Argentina over Excocets") ['Sunday Times' allegations;"standing instructions... not to help the Argentines... the French... now pursuing their enquiries with the firms concerned"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 (Falklands crisis: President Eyadéma of Togi message to the Prime Minister) [cover note; "salutes the British victory"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future administration of the Falkland Islands") [options] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: Coles minute for MT ("Lord Shackleton's Report") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Rehabilitation") [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 28 We Major Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Exocets: French statement") [statement to counter press allegations of arms aid to Argentina; threat of French counter-allegations] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 28 We Major Falklands: FCO telegram to Port Stanley ('Guardian' article: 'Islanders air their old resentments') ["resent the higher pay of OSAS workers and the fact that many of the latter left the Islands during the occupation"] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jul 28 We Major Falklands: Nott PS letter to No.10 ("The South Atlantic Fund") ["we received legal advice this afternoon that it may not be possible to make immediate payments in advance of proof of need"] [declassified Dec 2012]