Haig Wanted to Tell Argentina U.K.’s Falklands Plans
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Alexander Haig, the U.S. secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, had to be persuaded not to pass on U.K. military plans to Argentina during the Falklands War, newly released British documents show.
Haig was trying to broker a peace deal over the disputed islands in the South Atlantic. He told Nicholas Henderson, the British ambassador in Washington, he would have to inform the Argentines about U.K. plans to recapture the island of South Georgia if he was to maintain his position of “even-handedness,” according to files from 1982 released by the National Archives in London today.