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3.
Responsibility for implementing these
instructions was assumed by the Cabinet
Office and carried out by a small group of
the Defence Review Working Party. The
Working Party's report, although
substantially the work of departments of
the former Commonwealth Office and Foreign
Office, is therefore an interdepartmentally
agreed study. It was prepared in
consultation (as opportunity offered) with
the Governor of Hong Kong and Sir Donald
Hopson, former Chargé d'Affaires in Peking.
For security reasons no copy of the report
(or of earlier drafts) is held by anyone
outside Whitehall. The outcome represents
many months work, hampered by the
uncertainty surrounding Chinese attitudes
and intentions towards the Colony at the
height of the Cultural Revolution and the
difficulty of assessing what effects the
turmoil in China might have on that country's
policy towards Hong Kong in the long term.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
28 March 1969.
M. S.