# How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war *Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/source/f667d991 *Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/source/f667d991.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1 Publisher: Declassified UK · published 2025-04-02 · read 2026-09-09 Original: https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-secretly-armed-argentina-during-the-falklands-war/ *A source is testimony, not proof. The document itself is never republished here.* ## Who is named (26) - [Foreign Office](https://truthscore.com/entity/08f02cec) - [London](https://truthscore.com/entity/0c221b94) - [letter of credit](https://truthscore.com/entity/12f17841) - [48 soldiers](https://truthscore.com/entity/151b22b1) - [Nasher fighter jets](https://truthscore.com/entity/1823b40c) - [Sir Galahad](https://truthscore.com/entity/32ed58dd) - [Lord Sieff of Brimpton](https://truthscore.com/entity/33a6490f) - [Sunday Times](https://truthscore.com/entity/3ce389d3) - [Margaret Thatcher](https://truthscore.com/entity/3dd4cf2c) - [Argentina](https://truthscore.com/entity/493f3590) - [Israeli diplomats](https://truthscore.com/entity/7365766b) - [Argentine forces](https://truthscore.com/entity/745aed00) - [David Gillmore](https://truthscore.com/entity/776b5539) - [Ministry of Defence](https://truthscore.com/entity/8a591856) - [naval taskforce](https://truthscore.com/entity/924ef4d0) - [British press](https://truthscore.com/entity/9428f374) - [Insight](https://truthscore.com/entity/95c7dfe4) - [Peru](https://truthscore.com/entity/97eb59dc) - [United Kingdom](https://truthscore.com/entity/98fee4b2) - [Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e6b26cf) - [British warships](https://truthscore.com/entity/b3d8e910) - [Simon Weston](https://truthscore.com/entity/c726e6cd) - [Michael Fidler](https://truthscore.com/entity/cb01e54b) - [Skyhawk jets](https://truthscore.com/entity/d1fd7b35) - [Falkland Islands](https://truthscore.com/entity/daa0442d) - [Jacobo Timerman](https://truthscore.com/entity/ea9f2816) ## What it added - [Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands](https://truthscore.com/claim/71f6d56c) > Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands – a British territory in the South Atlantic – 43 years ago today. - [Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval taskforce to retake the Falkland Islands](https://truthscore.com/claim/fdcbb018) > UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher responded by dispatching a naval taskforce to retake the territory, pinning her political career on military success some 8,000 miles from London. - [The conflict lasted for 74 days and cost the lives of over 900 people, and Margaret Thatcher’s public approval rating was highest shortly after the Argentine…](https://truthscore.com/claim/4cb558a5) > The conflict lasted for 74 days and cost the lives of over 900 people, with Thatcher scoring her highest ever public approval rating shortly after the Argentine surrender in June 1982. - [The Falklands War transformed the British political scene](https://truthscore.com/claim/353d2351) > “It is no exaggeration to say that… the Falklands War transformed the British political scene”, she later wrote in her memoirs. - [Argentina acquired over twenty Nasher fighter jets from Israel in 1982, and more Israeli weapons and supplies were secretly transferred through Peru](https://truthscore.com/claim/51e8246c) > Yet Argentina was able to acquire over twenty Nasher fighter jets from Israel in 1982, the year of the Falklands war, with more Israeli weapons and supplies secretly transferred through Peru. - [Argentina used Israeli‑supplied Skyhawk jets to sink four British warships, including the Sir Galahad, resulting in the deaths of 48 soldiers](https://truthscore.com/claim/bc5ee697) > It also used Israeli‑supplied Skyhawk jets to sink four British warships, including the Sir Galahad, which resulted in the deaths of 48 soldiers. - [Israel repeatedly misled the UK government about its military support to Argentina, provoking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries](https://truthscore.com/claim/ec1d3f1a) > Declassified files now reveal how Israel repeatedly misled the UK government about its military support to Argentina, provoking a diplomatic crisis between both countries. - [The Foreign Office leaked information about Israel’s activities to the British press and summoned Israeli diplomats to explain themselves](https://truthscore.com/claim/a0242a0d) > The Foreign Office responded by leaking information about Israel’s activities to the British press and summoning Israeli diplomats to explain themselves. - [British soldier Simon Weston was onboard Sir Galahad when it was bombed](https://truthscore.com/claim/f27e6847) > British soldier Simon Weston was onboard Sir Galahad when it was bombed. - [Israeli denial of having supplied anything to Argentina could be got round by indirect supply of some kind which Israelis would of course be most anxious to…](https://truthscore.com/claim/992e1fd4) > “One is still left with the uneasy feeling that Israeli denial of having supplied anything to Argentina could… be got round by indirect supply of some kind which Israelis would of course be most anxious to conceal”, wrote Patrick Moberly, the UK ambassador in Tel Aviv, in May 1982. - [David Gillmore fed detailed information about Israel’s arms sales to Argentina to the Insight team at the Sunday Times in June 1982](https://truthscore.com/claim/c7db9a82) > In June 1982, Gillmore wrote in a secret cable about how he had “fed to the Insight people” at the Sunday Times detailed information about Israel’s arms sales to Argentina. - [The letter of credit was for over $50 million](https://truthscore.com/claim/d6b976be) > The letter of credit “was for over $50 million”. - [Lord Sieff of Brimpton operated as an intermediary between Tel Aviv and London](https://truthscore.com/claim/805c6401) > Lord Sieff of Brimpton, who had worked as an adviser to the Israeli government during the late 1940s, operated as an intermediary between Tel Aviv and London. - [Michael Fidler offered a categorical assurance that no arms had been supplied by Israel to Argentina either directly or indirectly since the start of the…](https://truthscore.com/claim/475ce423) > Michael Fidler, the founder of Conservative Friends of Israel, even attempted to offer the UK government a categorical assurance that no arms had been supplied by Israel to Argentina either directly or indirectly since the start of the Falklands crisis. - [The Israeli ambassador in London was told that the simplest way to end negative publicity would be to stop all current arms deliveries to Argentina](https://truthscore.com/claim/c5193d2e) > The Israeli ambassador in London was told plainly that “the simplest way to end it [negative publicity] would be to stop all current arms deliveries” to Argentina. - [The Israeli government suggested that selling arms to the Argentine dictatorship might improve conditions for the country’s Jewish community](https://truthscore.com/claim/571466ed) > The Israeli government suggested that selling arms to the Argentine dictatorship might improve conditions for the country’s Jewish community. - [The Israeli diplomat said the present crisis offered Israel an extremely attractive opportunity to develop the arms market in Argentina and Latin America](https://truthscore.com/claim/42ec78b1) > “The present crisis” in the Falklands offered Israel “an extremely attractive opportunity to develop the arms market in Argentina and Latin America, with great potential long‑term benefit to Israel”, one Israeli diplomat in London confessed. - [The Israeli government viewed arms sales to Argentina as a bargaining chip to exert pressure on Britain](https://truthscore.com/claim/27954633) > The Israeli government also viewed arms sales to Argentina as a “bargaining chip to exert pressure on Britain”. - [Britain’s Ministry of Defence is still censoring files about Israel’s role in the Falklands war](https://truthscore.com/claim/d5956ab9) > While these revelations come from Foreign Office documents, Britain’s Ministry of Defence is still censoring files about Israel’s role in the Falklands war. ## What it cost Reading this document into the graph cost $0.01.