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

PREM19/953
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 35)

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

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Datesort descending Value Title
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 Dec 7 We Major Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [defends] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Falklands: MT letter to President Alfonsin (personal message) [draft congratulations on inauguration] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Falklands: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Argentina”) [MT requests meeting] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne (“Argentine elections”) [MT personal message to Alfonsin on his inauguration] [declassified 2013]
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 Dec 9 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO (“Argentine elections”) [Alfonsin reaction to initial contact from MT] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3732 to FCO (2315Z) (“Argentina”) [Vice-President Bush visiting Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu Major Falklands: Lord Trefgarne PS letter to No.10 (South Atlantic Fund annual report) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina: reply to the Prime Minister’s message”) [newly elected government] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 15 Th Major Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO (“Relations with Argentina”) [conversation between UK Ambassador and Spanish Foreign Minister] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 15 Th Major Falklands: No.10 note to MT (FCO and MOD ministers both planning visits to Falklands) [MT: "absurd for both to go. Michael [Heseltine] MUST go"] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Alfredo Spilsinger”) [potential Argentine-UK go-between] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 19 Mo Major Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Arms sales to Argentina”) [UK dismayed by French lifting of restraints] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Argentina-Portugal”) [conversation between UK Ambassador & President Soares: Soares meeting with Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina/Falklands: next steps with the Alfonsin Government”) [MT strongly disagrees with Howe] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 22 Th Major Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Howe, Patrick Mayhew) [“Argentina: arms sales and bank lending”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 28 We Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Alfonsin’s first two weeks: assessment”) [declassified 2013]