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CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2000
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TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
20 SEPTEMBER 1968
RECEIVED IN
ARCHIVES No. 63 23 SEP1968
KWASI
ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO, 2000 OF 20TH SEPTEMBER REPEATED PERING,
AND PA SINGAPORE.
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MY TELEGRAM NO. 1068 GREY.
NY TELEGRAM NO. 2001 CONTAINS A VERBATIM EXTRACT FROM CATER'S
REPORT CUITH MINOR OMISSIONS PCR BREVITY) OF THAT PART OF THE MEETING
ON 17 SEPTEMBER WHICH CONCERNS GREY.
2. NY INSTRUCTIONS TO CATER VORE THAT HE SHOULD BEGIN BY MENTIONING
HOUCH ALONE BUT THAT TOWARDS THE END OF THE CONVERSATION HE SHOULD
RENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASING LO AS WELL. AS YOU WILL SEE,
THE DISCUSSION TOOK A TURN WHICH MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR CATER TO
FOLLOW HIS INSTRUCTIONS, AND HE SEEMS TO HAVE HAD LITTLE OPTION BUT
TO ACCEPT CONTACT'S COUNTER PROPOSAL. THE OCCASION TO MENTION LO
NEVER ARCGE.
3. I HAVE ASKED CATER IN CLARIFICATION WHETHER, FROM WHAT CONTACT
SAID, CONTACT WOULD HAVE OBJECTED EQUALLY TO A PROPOSAL TO RELEASE
HSUCH WITHOUT KEGOTIATION IN THE HOPE OF A RESPONSE OVER GREY.
CATER'S VIEW IS THAT CONTACT WOULD HAVE EQUALLY STRONGLY ADVISED
AGAINST THIS COURSE. CONTACT'S VIEW WAS THAT 'HSUCH IS NOT THE
MICE FOR GREY' MEANING THAT THE CHINESE HAD NO PARTICULAR QUID
PRO QUO IN MIND FOR GREY AND WOULD RELEASE HIM IN THEIR OWN GOOD
TIME SCHICOLON PERHAPS QUITE SOON IN VIEW OF THEIR EMBARRASSMENT
OVER HIM.
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