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1982 May 5 - 1982 May 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/647
Argentina (Falklands: sensitive briefing) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 138
Any docs withheld? No

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82 May 12 Wed Falklands: HMS Brilliant message to CTF 317.8 (2130Z) ("Operation Corporate") [account of attacks on Brilliant and Glasgow] [declassified 2012]
82 May 12 Wed Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [draft telegrams to Parsons regarding UN negotiations] [declassified 2012]
82 May 12 Wed Falklands: Armstrong minute for Coles (Electronic counter-measures against Exocet missiles) [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 13 Thu Falklands: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Falklands: Decision Timetable") [arrangements for meetings of OD(SA) and decisions on Falklands landings] [declassified 2012]
82 May 13 Thu Falklands: Nott letter to French Defence Minister Hernu (regret at UK press reports criticising France for providing weapons to Argentina) [declassified 2012]
82 May 13 Thu Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT (0700Z) ("The Falklands: Military Briefing - Friday 8th May, 8 am in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room") [planning Falklands landings] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Armstrong minute to MT ("Argentina and the Falkland Islands") [role of intelligence in the lead-up to Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (proposed letter to PW Botha regarding South African offer of support facilities) [urges against making letter "warmer"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: MOD letter to Department of Trade ("Non-Combat Aircraft: Contingency Press Release") [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 16th May") [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Wade-Gery minute to Whitmore ("Argentine Mainland") [Fieldhouse will not seek authority to attack Argentine mainland] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Whitmore note to MT ("Meeting of OD(SA) on Tuesday 18 May") [18 May meeting of OD(SA) is "a critical one" "given the decision which we at present think Ministers will have to take on that occasion"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Whitmore minute to MT ("Landing on the Falkland Islands") [concern about weakness of air defence of Task Force ships] [declassified 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (OD(SA) meeting: list of attendees) [Chequers meeting 10am Sunday 16 May] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 May 14 Fri Falklands: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 51 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [text as annotated by MT] [declassified 2012]