File of papers concerning claims made initially by civil servant Clive Ponting that the Conservative Government had covered up the facts surrounding the sinking of the Argentine cruiser the General Belgrano by British naval forces during the Falklands conflict on 2 May 1982 including:

• Correspondence/copy correspondence between David Owen and Margaret Thatcher concerning the apparent inconsistencies in Governmental accounts of the affair, Sep-Nov 1984; also includes copies of Margaret Thatcher's letters on the subject to Neil Kinnock, Sep-Oct 1984
• Transcript of David Owen's speech at the SDP Party Conference, Buxton, commenting on the Government's conduct in accounting for the sinking of the Belgrano, 11 Sep 1984
• news cuttings, Feb 1985
• Copies of Hansard extracts from May 1982-Jan 1983 including Government statements on the events surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano.