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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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PRIVACY MARKING
SECRET
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker
KCMG OBE
Government House
Hong Kong
Type 1 +
From
Mr Laird Telephone No, & Ext.
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In Confidence
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cc A F Thorp OBE
1.
Head of FI (Air) MOD
TJ Brack, Treasury
Department
RJ Smith, DOE, Lambeth Bridge House, London SE1
Now that the issue of the défence contribution
ence
has been settled, we feel that/we should, for the
record, embody in one document the amount of the
contribution and the various conditions attached to
(HMG and the Hong Kong
it as agreed between our respective governments.
Such
a document might follow/the lines of the Memorandum
of Understanding which was drawn up on the occasion
when the previous contribution was negotiated in
1966/67.
2. I am accordingly enclosing the draft of such a
document and shall be glad if you will confirm that
it correctly récords the terms and conditions of the
contribution as agreed to in the relevant exchanges
each arguten s
this
Le
of telegrams which have passed between is
Suljeit.
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