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Dear Byang
AG. N. Ganymera
Wa 192
Communist Confrontation
Copy Nol. of 3 Copies.
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD HONG KONG
2 February, 1970.
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Thank you for your letter HKK 13/11 of 16 January.
Reference paragraph 2 of your letter and paragraph 29 of the earlier paper, I can assure you that our publicity machinery is very conscious of the advantages of exploiting the poor academic achievements of the communist schools. try not to overdo the attacks because they have on one occasion produced an inconvenient feed-back through the Executive Council. The unofficial members made demands for more effective action against communist schools which we found it difficult to meet. We do not have the impression that our publicity efforts have much success with communist parents. As you say, most of the children in communist schools have parents who are communist sympathisers or who are subject to communist pressure.
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Reference paragraph 3 of your letter and paragraph 5 of the later paper, this is, of course, a trend which has been going on virtually since the establishment of the C.P.G.; indeed in 1950 a number of cadres were sent down to Hong Kong to supervise the take over for the C.P.G. of former K.M.T. Govern- ment assets in the Colony. This trend has intensified since the late 1950's until to-day nearly all positions of influence in the major local communist organisations are held by such cadres. It is difficult to give an accurate estimate of the number of such cadres in Hong Kong in that they do not all hold C.P.G. passports and they have, over the years, arrived in the Colony by various means. However, it is believed that there are at least 500 in the major communist organisations. The significance of this trend is, of course, that it renders the local communist organisations subject to much tighter control from China and, at the same time, it increases considerably our difficulties in obtaining high level live penetration.
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Reference paragraph 4 of your letter and paragraph 34 of the later paper, trying to bring about a rift between the Hong Kong Government and the Americans has for a long time been a
It standard activity of the local communist propaganda machine. obviously fits in with the fact that the United States is a major point of attack for Chinese propaganda. Our local communist newspapers concentrate upon the presence of American naval vessels and American servicemen from Vietnam on rest and recuperation,
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/contd..
W.S. Carter, Esq., CVO,
Hong Kong Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, LONDON, S.W.1.
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51 11 FEB 1970