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PREM19/1627
Security (Sinking of Argentine warship General Belgrano in 1982: report by House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 42
Any docs withheld? 2

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Date Value Title
85 Feb 28 Th Major Falklands: Attorney-General's Office letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Th Major Falklands: AGO letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mo Major Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO (“Sinking of the Belgrano: Disclosure of Information to the Foreign Affairs Committee”) [arrangements for access to “Crown Jewels”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mo Major Falklands: No.10 minute to Howe (“Sinking of the Belgrano: Disclosure of Information to the Foreign Affairs Committee”) [arrangements for access to “Crown Jewels”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 1 Mo Major Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Falklands: No.10 message for MT (Foreign Affairs Committee report) [Michael Alison has secured early draft; “Opposition members are likely to conclude it is a white-wash”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Falklands: No.10 message to Butler (Foreign Affairs Committee report) [“Opposition members are likely to conclude it is a white-wash”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (government’s position) [“the sinking of the General Belgrano was a necessary and legitimate action in the Falklands campaign”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Falklands: MT letter to Dalyell (government’s position) [“the sinking of the General Belgrano was a necessary and legitimate action in the Falklands campaign”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Falklands: Heseltine minute to Howe (“FAC report on the events surrounding the weekend of 1st/2nd May 1982”) [“the main charge is that the Government displayed excessive caution in its handling of information”] [released Dec 2014]
85 Aug 5 Mo Major Falklands: MoD report (“FAC report on the events surrounding the weekend of 1st/2nd May 1982”) [“the main charge is that the Government displayed excessive caution in its handling of information”] [released Dec 2014]