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4.There is one other point (in paragraph five of
your letter) which puzzles us a little.
You say that
you have no plans to deploy fighters to Hong Kong (from
this country) for training or other purposes.
We are
not clear as to how we should interpret this in the
light of the record of the Chiefs of Staff meeting with
the Governor on 30 April, 1968 (see Air Marshall
Fletcher's comment at the foot of the second page of
that record) or of paragraph seven of the annex to OPD
Am I corect in assuming
(68) 32 of 21 May, 1968. Are you in fact now saying
under your presin (plans
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that after the disbandment of No. 20 Squadron of
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