PREM19/1626: Security (Leak of information on sinking of Argentine warship General Belgrano in 1982 to Tam Dalyell MP: confession and trial of Clive Ponting) (Part 1)

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Date	Value	Title
85 Feb 17 Su	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: Kinnock letter to MT (Ponting prosecution) [proposed Commons debate]
85 Feb 18 Mo	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: Conservative Research Department briefing (“The sinking of the General Belgrano”) [for 18 Feb 1985 HC debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mo	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 minute to Heseltine PS (“Belgrano Debate”) [MT agrees list of documents to be laid in the House of Commons library] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 20 We	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: Flesher minute for Butler (aftermath of Ponting debate) [Chief Whip's thoughts on raising Ponting’s denial of contact with Dalyell before July] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mo	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: Law Officers' Department letter to Policy Unit (McGowan ruling on Ponting) [summing up] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mo	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: Booth minute for Flesher (“Times leader, 25 February 1985”) [Times attacks Judge’s summary of the “National Interest”] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tu	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: MOD letter to No.10 (“Belgrano: release of documents”) [attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Th	Major	Falklands/Belgrano: MOD letter to Cabinet Office (leak of “Crown Jewels” to New Statesman ) [probably from Ponting defence team; no point in leak inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]