Registry
No.
Top Secret. Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
Staff in Confidence.
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT
Submission
Type 1 +
To:-
From
J.B. Denson
Mr. Wilkinson-
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
This is bunny
considerano M
Mr. Wilkrigen.
~Denso 17;
Pencelled amandements
accepted by
1971
Mr. Anthony Grey and the New China News Agency
Problem
No progress has been made in securing
access to Mr. Grey, nor have the Chinese
responded to an informal suggestion made by
Sir Donald Hopson that Mr. Grey might be
exchanged for N.C.N.A. personnel in prison
in Hong Kong. There has been some recent
press publicity in this country about the case
and we must expect further Parliamentary
questions and possibly an adjournment debate.
We have to decide what further pressure, if
any, can be put on the Chinese to release
Mr. Grey and how the case should be handled
in public.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that we should consult Sir
D. Hopson further on the lines of the attached
draft telegrams in which the Commonwealth Office
concur.
Argument and Background
3.
Sir D. Hopson has had a number of
exchanges with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs about visits to Mr. Grey. He has
pointed out that the N.C.N.A. personnel in
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