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Reference the assistance from Chile.
The Chilean Air Force Commander-in-Chief, General Fernando Matthei and other Chilean Air Force personnel have provided details on the subject.
See following.
The Falklands Conflict - Data Library - Aircraft
General Matthei also gave a TV interview on the subject. Unfortunately the You Tube account that hosted the video has since been closed. It was in Spanish but a Spanish speaker kindly posted an outline.
From Ordie on Military Photos during 2008
Very interesting comments: (Paraphrasing)
Gen Maffei: "My goal is to make sure the Argentines were defeated, if not they will seek war with Chile."
Gen Maffei:"Between 1978 and 1980's the Chilean military, even though superior in training, it was inferior in numbers compared with Argentina."
Gen Maffei:"It was our intention to talk to the English first, but coincidently they approached us with the same concerns about Argentina."
Gen Maffei:"Our intelligence was not one of spies or agents, but of signal intelligence, electronics and determining to movement of forces."
Gen Maffei: " We have a state of the art underground command center in Punta Areas, Chile where much of the gathered intelligence was sent to Santiago and passed to the British Embassy and on to London."
Gen Maffei: "RAF C-130 with electronic intelligence equipment flew from the Pacific via Easter Island disgused as Chilean Air Force aircraft. This was done on the premise they had to fly between internal destinations within Chile collecting intelligence. The aircraft were noted by the misspelling of the Fuerza Area de Chile."
Gen Maffei: "Soon after the sinking of the HMS Sheffied, our intellegence sharing was perfected to the point that we knew the daily sorties of the Argentine aircraft, number of aircraft that took off and the number that returned."
Annoucer: "Chile had massed its forces in the south, in return the Argentine with-held its best units within the mainland."
Gen. Maffei: " When the Sea King helicopter crashed near Punta Arenas, the whole deal was almost off. I was emphatic that Chilean Territory was not to be used for offensive military actions into Argentina."
Chielan Liason Officer: "RAF Nimrod electronic warfare aircraft operated from the remote San Felix island in the Pacific."
Annoucer: "On the day of the Bluff Cove attack on the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristam, both the Chilean Radar and RAF Nimrod were out of service."
Note: the images of the Hunter and Canberras were in reference to a deal to re-equip the Chiean Air Force with extra equipment.
From
Falklands 30 - Page 110