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1982 Aug 10 - 1983 Jan 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1112
Prime Minister (Prime Minister's visit to Falklands, Jan 1983) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 197
Any docs withheld? 3

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82 Aug 10 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (MT indicates desire to visit Falkland Islands for 150th Anniversary celebrations) [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 1 Fr Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to the Falklands") [arrangements and security implications] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 5 Tu Major Falklands: Coles minute to MT ("Your Visit to the Falkland Islands") [provisional arrangements] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 26 Tu Major Falklands: No.10 letter to MOD ("Possible Visit to the Falkland Islands by the Prime Minister") [questions about planning and security implications] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 4 Th Major Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit to the Falkland Islands by the Prime Minister") [Nott's views] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 5 Fr Major Falklands: Armstrong minute to Coles ("Argentine Threat to the 150th Anniversary Celebrations on the Falkland Islands, and to the Prime Minister's Proposed Visit") ["I should rate the risk of some attempt, however "kamikaze" it was likely to be, as significant"] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 17 We Major Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pym-Nott-Whitelaw-Havers-Onslow) [possible visit by MT to the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 25 Th Major Falklands: Ingham minute to Coles ("Any Prime Ministerial Visit to Falklands") [media considerations] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Falklands: Coles minute to MT ("Visit to Falklands") [provisional programme for MT's visit] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 9 Su Major Falklands: Logan minute to Ingham (MT's visit to the Falklands: account of Ingham's conversations with BBC and ITN representatives) [Ingham angry at refusal of BBC to make footage of MT's arrival in Falklands available to other networks] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 9 Su Major Falklands: Christopherson message to Ingham (television arrangements for MT's arrival at Falklands: BBC and ITN pooling) ["Love to Penguins"] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 9 Su Major Falklands: Christopherson message to Ingham (television arrangements for MT's arrival at Falklands: BBC and ITN pooling) [BBC and ITN displeasure at arrangements] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 9 Su Major Falklands: Christopherson message to Ingham (Christopherson passes Ingham's message to BBC regarding pooling of footage of MT's visit) ["You regard BBC behaviour as childish and stupid in the extreme"] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 10 Mo Major Falklands: Ingham minute to Kydd (footage of MT's visit to be delivered to London) ["No alarms. Determined not to react to Argentine allegations of provocation"] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 11 Tu Major Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO (MT's visit to Falklands: dinner menu) [declassified 2013]