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1983 Sep 19 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/953
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 35)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 347
Any docs withheld? 13

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83 Dec 8 Th Major Falklands: Vice-President Bush letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [wishes "we could sit down and chat because I have been troubled by recent tensions"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Arms for Argentina”) [Howe advises against use of anti-semitism allegations to dissuade US from arms sales] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Falklands at the General Assembly) [assessment of likely support for Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 30 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Assessment”) [forthcoming elections - social and political climate] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“French arms sales to Argentina”) [UK to express regret over French decision to lift ban] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 17 Th Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falkland Islands: Chief Executive”) [appointment] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 23 Fr Major Falklands: Howe telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Falkland Islands: UN General Assembly”) [advice on lines to take regarding Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu Major Falklands: No.10 telegram to Heseltine PS and Howe PS (“US certification and arms sales”) [MT decides to avoid major row over certification; "take up the cudgels" only if major US arms sale in prospect] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [Howe advocates worth of congratulatory message to newly elected Argentine government] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Falklands: Paul Channon letter to Lord Gowrie (imports of books from Argentina) [MT-approved waiver on ban] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Rome (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [plea to Italy to abstain from vote on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Falklands at UNGA”) [conversation between Lord Bridges and Giulio Andreotti] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3031 to FCO (2341Z) (“UNGA debate: Falklands”) [US to support Argentine resolution again] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Alfredo Spilsinger”) [potential Argentine-UK go-between] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (Alfredo Spilsinger) [business partner of Lord Mayor with contacts in Argentine government] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3650 to FCO (184Z) (message to Shultz on arms sales to Argentina) [US gives confidential assurance to consult UK prior to any sales] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We Major Falklands: No.10 note to MT (Tam Dalyell MP ‘Wall Street Journal’ article) [allegations regarding circumstances surrounding sinking of ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Press summary”) [current events including receipt of international loan] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 We Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1363 to FCO (0142Z) (“Falklands debate”) [“detailed breakdown of voting on this year’s resolution”] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (article by Sir Nicholas Henderson in ‘The Economist’) [circumstances surrounding sinking of the ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013]