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PREM19/648
Argentina (Falklands: sensitive briefing) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 172

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Date Value Title
82 May 14 Fr Major Falklands: Cabinet Office note of unminuted OD(SA) decision on special forces operation - OD(SA)(82) 34th (0900Z) (decision to authorise both phases) [intelligence gathering and offensive action approved; Mandarins' Group held inconclusive discussion of alternatives] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 18th May") [OD(SA)(82) 36th - "The meeting will be asked to authorise the Landing"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (discussions with France over supply of Exocets to Peru) [speaking notes for MT's meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Nott's message to South African Government] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT (phone conversation with PM Ulloa of Peru) [Galtieri needing to consult with civilian parties now, creating opportunity for concession British?] [declassified 2012]
82 May 17 Mo Major Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-Mitterrand) ["Supply by France of Exocet to Peru" - Mitterrand tells MT he "had decided that the implementation of the contract should be delayed for as long as necessary"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Public Presentation of our Final Position") [draft note British position to be made available to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands") [draft opening speech for MT's use in Commons debate] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Lieutenant Commander Astiz") [Nott favours early return to Argentina after asking if he is willing to answer French and Swedish questions; thinks "we have already sailed very close to the wind in our treatment of Astiz"; imprisonment on board ship a breach of article 22 of the Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: Havers letter to MT ("Falkland Islands: Draft Interim Agreement - Note on Last Sentence of Article 6(3)") [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: FCO telegram 174 to UKMIS Geneva (1800Z) ("Falkland Islands") ["disturbing report" that Argentine forces have removed Islanders from Port Stanley against their will] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1803 to FCO (2050Z) ("Falklands") [US urging further negotiating initiative; Henderson says this is "inappropriate"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 18 Tu Major Falklands: Cabinet Office note of unminuted OD(SA) discussion - OD(SA)(82) 37th (0830Z) ("special operation") [Chiefs assured ministers that Sutton was not contingent on success or otherwise of such operations; Mandarins' Group held inconclusive discussion of alternatives] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 781 to FCO (0515Z) ("Falklands") [new Argentine "ideas and views" "a crude attempt by the Argentines either to gain more time or to wrong foot us"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 20th May") [OD(SA)(82) 39th] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Paper for Parliament on the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Interim Agreement") [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Falklands") [advises that Cabinet members should not be informed that Falklands landings are imminent: "To do so would burden them"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 19 We Major Falklands: Coles note to MT ("Situation in New York") [Parsons recommends that MT calls Perez de Cuellar] [declassified 2012]