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Registry 13
DRAFT
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Seoret
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
To:-
LETTER
Type 1 +
4
I.M. Lightbody Esq Colonial Secretariat HONG KONG
From
AN Gammera
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
ANG
18.2.2
Will you please refer to your letter to
Carter No. SCR1/4841/5511 of 28th January about
Hong Kong despatch No. 617 of 24th May 1969.
Until very recently despatches of this nature
were distributed to our High Commissions in all
(but not to our Missions in foreign countries Commonwealth countries.
However, with effect
Hong Kong
from the beginning of this year Hong Kong
Category
despatches in this eatery will be given a Foreign
and Commonwealth Office "Asia and Pacific" regional distribution. I enclose a list showing those F.CO.
sts which comprise
overseas
departments, eeustries and
this distribution.
d/posts
In no case is a Commonwealth or foreign
Government shown such despatches without the
specific approval of the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office. If a request is received from one of
our missions abroad for permission to show such
C
a despatch to the Government to which it is
credited (as happend recently in the ease of Barbados) we would consider the request on its
merits and if we were in any doubt at all we would
would consult you as happened recomptay in the case of the Barbados request).
AW. GAMINARA