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CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NO. 2030
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TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
27 SEFTER BER 1968
ADDRESSED CO TELNO 2030 CF 27TH SEPTEMBER FFI FEKING AND PA
SINGAPORE.
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MY TELEGRAP 2017: GREY.
CONTACT ASKEL FOR ANOTHER FEETING WITH CATER ON 24TH SEPTEMBER
TC GC OVER THE OF CUND AGAIN IN PREPARATION FOR A MEETING WHICH
CONTACT WAS GOING TO HAVE WITH LI CHOCHIP IN THE MORNING OF
THE 25TH. CON ACT KET CATER AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON OF HE 25TH
AFTER HIS MEETING WITH LI. AT THIS LATER FEETING, CONTACT SPOKE
TO CATER ON THE FOLLOWING LINES.
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2. HE SAID THAT HE WAS ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED THAT HE HAL GIVEN
CATER THE RIGHT ADVICE CMY TELEGRAM 2001). CONTACT HAD HAD A
MESSAGE FROM FEKING COVEYING CHOU EN LAI'S PERSONAL REGARDS
AND STATING THAT HE WAS CONCERNED AT THE POSITION OVER GREY AND
WOULD BE ACTING 'WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY OCCUPS'', WHICH I TAKE
TO PEAN WPET: CHOU ET LAI'S POSITION IN PEKING IS STRONGER. CHOU
PAD ASREL CONTACT TO SEND TO PIN AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION
CONCERNING GREY.
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3. ACCORDING TO CONTACT, LI PAD FECI VLD INSTRUCTIONS THAT CONTACT
SHOULD NOT PUSH AHEAD WITH DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE FOSSIBILITY OF AN
"EXCHANGE FOR GREY. LI SAID THE REASON WAS THAT PEKING WOULD FIND"
SUCH NEGOTIATIONS PIHLY EMBARRASSING. THEY WOULD PAVE TO ASK FOR
THE RELEASE OF MORE THAN JUST ESTEP AND PROBABLY AT LEAST THE 15
MENSUCE KLPS. THEY OCULT. BAFLLY, FOR EXAMPLE, JUSTIFY TO THEIR
SUPPORTERS IN HONG KOMS SUCH AS FUI YI PIPC LASCEIPTRATION IN
FAVOUR OF THE. TWO RONA EMPLOYEES I HISON EILST LEAVING, OUT
THE OTHER JOURNAL... AND CONTRONTATION FRISONERS. ON THE OTHER
HAND, THE BARGAIN OF GREY FOR THE RELEASE ONLY OF HSUEP, PO IS
LUE OUT VERY SOON, WAS HARDLY ENOUGH. FEKING WOULD PREFER TO HAVE
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