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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Tel. 496
20 April 1968
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of 20 April.
Addressed Commonwealth Office telegram No. 496
Repeated for information to Peking.
On 29 August last year, as a result of liaison with I.S.D. Singapore two agents of the Chinese Intelligence Service, Yeung Pui-ying (a woman born in Malaysia) and Choi Sui-chun (a man born in Kwangtung) were arrested in Hong Kong. The arrests, which had no connexion with the local confrontation with the Communists, followed on information received from Singapore about a Chinese Intelligence Service operative there, to whom Yeung is married.
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Yeung
Interrogation of these agents has now been completed and there is no further case for keeping them in custody here. was released last week and permitted, at her own request and by agreement with the Government of Singapore, to go to Singapore. Last weekend, however, news of her departure leaked (apparently from some of her relations in Hong Kong) in the non-Communist Press, which alleged that she had been deported as a major Communist: the story was denied officially and was not mentioned in the Communist papers.
3. We now have to dispose of Choi, who says he is willing to return to China. It has always been our practice in the past to deport known members of the Chinese Intelligence Services to China and the C.P. G. have normally accepted them at the frontier without any prior notification by us. It seems possible, however, that in view of recent controversies about deportation there might be trouble if Choi were to be presented at the border without prior notice. Subject to your views, therefore, we would propose to inform a contact in the N.C.N.A. that we wish to return Choi to China in view of his activities here on behalf of the Chinese Intelligence Service. We would stress that in the past such people have always been accepted at the frontier by the C.P.G. and that Choi's arrest had nothing to do with confrontation. would offer to release Choi either at Lo Wu or at the railway terminus in Kowloon and hand him over to an N.C.N.A. official without any publicity, provided his return to China were arranged forthwith.
4. Unless you, or Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires Peking, see any strong reasons to the contrary, we would approach N.C.N.A. on these lines about the middle of next week. In the light of our experience with the film stars, we would not propose to proceed with plan unless we got N.C.N.A.'s firm agreement.
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