Secret files lift lid on Thatcher-Reagan Falklands contacts
By , on December 28th, 2012
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to US president Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the “only person” who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed on Friday. Newly declassified files from 1982 lift the lid on contacts between the two leaders over the crisis and reveal the extent of the pressure Thatcher felt she was under when Argentina invaded the remote South Atlantic archipelago to reclaim what it said was its sovereign territory, triggering a 10-week war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to US president Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the “only person” who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed on Friday. Newly declassified files from 1982 lift the lid on contacts between the two leaders over the crisis and reveal the extent of the pressure Thatcher felt she was under when Argentina invaded the remote South Atlantic archipelago to reclaim what it said was its sovereign territory, triggering a 10-week war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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