From: P. Nailor, Head of DS22
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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Main Building, Whitehall, LONDON S.W.I Telephone: WHItehall 7022, ext. 3287
10th July 1967
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Dear Carter,
I enclose the Ministry of Defence contribution to the long- term paper on Hong Kong which Moriarty agreed should come direct to you.
You will see that we deal only with the garrison as the section on intelligence is being prepared separately by the JIC. We shall also be in touch with the Foreign Office about paragraph 5(c) of the outline paper; it is not for us to examine the possibility of American involvement, but I think this should be mentioned in connection with the defence of Hong Kong at some point in the paper, in the general context of trying to define what "identifying aggression" means for third parties.
2. I am sending copies of this letter to Sykes and Butler at the Foreign Office and to Moriarty and Foster at the Cabinet Office.
Yours sincerely
Peter Navior.
W.S. Carter, Esq., Commonwealth Office, Church House, Great Smith Street, S.W.1.
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