falklands you were actually working in argentina as a british intelligence officer how much did the british government know about what was going on in argentina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. gosh i mean the dirty war you just named them in the only two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it. well do you want the short answer the answer the. answer is that the british government is not very good at anything much except ignoring water abuse inconvenient for it to regard an instance of the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station when the us which is why after the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence after that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much to the issue of the falkland islands and their ownership feature in this policy we're going to balance that