DIRTY WARS AND DEVIOUS POLITICS The Foreign Office the Falklands Argentina and the USA 1964-1999

British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington was determined to give the Falkland Islands to Argentina, a policy blocked by Mrs Thatcher, her Cabinet, most MPs and the public. Did he secretly plot with the United States and Argentina to hand over the defenceless Islands after a pre-agreed bloodless invasion, a crisis intended to force a negotiated settlement?

“This is an important account – perhaps the only full account – of British duplicity in the lead-up to and in the wake of the Falklands War. It is also an account of one man’s efforts to discover and moderate Whitehall machinations, and the personal price that he paid.” Graham Bound, Falkland Islander, former editor of the Islands’ newspaper Penguin News.

Robert Elgood FSA has a degree in Islamic history from SOAS and a doctorate from Oxford. In 1982 he was asked to write an account of the causes of the Falklands War and gave evidence to Lord Franks’ Committee of Privy Councillors. He worked in a voluntary capacity as a political lobbyist for the Islanders for 17 years and is a Vice President of the Falkland Islands Association. He lives in Oxfordshire and has a wife and three sons.