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FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM NO. 373 TO BERNE
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6. YOU SHOULD ASSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO WHICH YOU ARE ACCREDITED THAT THERE WILL BE NO, REPEAT NO, PUBLICITY ABOUT OUR APPROACH TO THEM OR ABOUT THEIR REACTIONS TO OUR REQUEST. YOU SHOULD ADD, HOWEVER, THAT IF KNOWLEDGE OF OUR GENERAL DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE BECAME PUBLIC
WE WOULD MERELY CONFIRM THAT WE HAD INFORMED AND SOUGHT THE CO-
OPERATION OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENTS IN THIS MATTER. YOU MAY ALSO SAY
THAT WE MAY INITIATE SOME LIMITED GENERAL PUBLICITY ABOUT THE
PLIGHT OF THE MISSION TO COINCIDE WITH THIS EXERCISE.
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