CONFIDENTIAL
CYPHER CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NO5,206
TOP CODY
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
26 NOVEMBER 1968
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ADDRESSED FCO TELEGRAM NO. 2206 OF 26TH NOVEMBER REPEATED PEKING,
TAMSUI, AND WASHINGTON.
FILM QUOTE THE CHAIRMAN UNQUOTE.
THE LOCAL COMMUNIST PRESS HAS BEEN VIGOROUSLY ATTACKING THE ALLEGED
VILIFICATION OF MAO IN THIS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM BEING MADE
MAINLY AT PINEWOOD AND IN TAIWAN. A FEW LINK SCENES WERE DUE TO BE
SHOT HERE AT THE WEEKEND. THE ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG WITH THE
FILM HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF SPECIAL ATTACK.
2. IT IS LIKELY THAT IF THE FILM COMPANY PROCEEDED WITH ITS PLANS
TO SHOOT IN PUBLIC PLACES HERE, THERE WOULD BE DISTURBANCES. WE
ARE THEREFORE INFORMING THE COMPANY THAT FOR THAT REASON WE CANNOT
ALLOW THEM TO SHOOT IN HONG KONG. WE HOPE THE COMPANY WILL ACCEPT
THE DECISION WITHOUT ARGUMENT AND WILL AGREE TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT
HAS CHANGED ITS FLANS EUT IF IT IS NOT CO-OPERATIVE WE SHALL
ANNOUNCE THAT WE CANNOT PERMIT THE PROPOSED SHOOTING.
3. WE HAVE INFORMED THE U.S. CONSULATE-GENERAL WHO DO NOT DISSENT.
FCO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING TAMSU1 AND WASHINGTON.
SIR D. TRENCH
/REPEATED AS REQUESTED/
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31
26 NOV 1968
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