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PREM19/651
Argentina (Falklands: sensitive briefing) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret - UK Eyes B
Page count: 95
Any docs withheld? 26

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Date Value Title
82 Jun 7 Mo Major Falklands: MOD letter to FCO ("Authority to Attack Argentine Naval Auxiliaries Which Form Part of a Resupply Force") [change to rules of engagement] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 8 Tu Major Falklands: Goodall briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 9th June") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 10 Th Major Falklands: MOD briefing for ACDS(OPS) for meeting of the Chiefs of Defence Staff (0830Z) (intelligence and own forces) [sent to No.10 in lieu of OD(SA) meeting that day] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 10 Th Major Falklands: Goodall briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 11th June") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 10 Th Major Falklands: MOD note ("Operation Corporate - Forces with NATO Role Deployed to the South Atlantic") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 10 Th Major Falklands: BRITDEFAT Paris signal to MODUK (1100Z) ("Super Entendard for Peru") ["a possible circumvention of the French arms ban to Argentina in the guise of a delivery to Peru"] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 11 Fr Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (Nott authorises further Operation Black Buck to attack Port Stanley airfield) [contingency in case Vulcan has to divert to Brazil - unredacted MT copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 11 Fr Major Falklands: Nott minute to MT ("Release of Information about the Capture of Darwin and Goose Green") [speculation not leak] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 12 Sa Major Falklands: MOD sitrep for Prime Minister (0730Z) (update since OD(SA) 0900Z 11 June) [own forces, incidents and accidents, casualties, POWs, hospital ships - MT's copy] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 15 Tu Major Falklands: Goodall briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 16th June") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 18 Fr Minor Falklands: Coles minute for MT ("OD(SA): Monday 21 June") [Pym and Nott will both be absent, meeting still being held for stocktaking purposes] [declassified Dec 2012]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major Falklands: MOD note ("Operation Corporate - Force Tote at 220600A June (Issue 89)") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major Falklands: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (suggests fewer meetings of OD(SA)) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major Falklands: MT letter to Whitmore (closure of the FCO Emergency Unit) [MT thanks Emergency Unit staff] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 23 We Major Falklands: Whitmore minute to Armstrong (MT agrees to reduction of number of OD(SA) meetings) [declassified 2012]