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SUBJECT: MARCOTICS: REACTIONS TO FREY REPORT
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SUMMARY: STORIES ON FREY REPORT CARRIEN IN SEVEN LOCAL NEWS- PAPERS AND ON RADIO NEWS ON FIRST DAY (APRIL 30), FOLLOWED BY SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST EDITORIAL AND COMMENTS FROM NARCOTICS COMMISSIONER ROLPH ON MAY 1. PAPERS CONCENTRATED ON CHARGES OF K KG "INDIFFERENCE" TO PROBLEM, LACK OF US-HKG COOPERATION, AND INCREASED SHIPMENTS FROM HONG KONG TO NETHERLANDS, ALL OF WHICH WERE DENIED BY AKG SPOKESMAN. COMMISSIONER FOLPH PERSONALLY REACTED CALMLY TO REPORT AND TO PRESS REACTIONS.
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1. FREY REPORT, ALONG WITH RKG SPOKESMAN'S COMMENTS, CARRIED IN SEVEN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS APRIL 30, FOLLOWING DAY, SCHP CARRIED SHORT INTERVIEW WITH MARCOTICS COMMISSIONER ROLPH AND EDITORIAL ENTITLED "GROSS INJUSTICE TO HONG KONG, EDITORIAL ENDED WITH "PUBLIC RECORD OF HONG KONG WHICH THE THREE US CONGRESSMEN CONVENIENTLY IGNORE, DEMONSTRATES THE UNCHALLENGEABLE FACT THAT THE COLONY IS DOING ITS BEST IN DEALING WITH THE DRUG MENACE, MOST NEWS STORIES CARRIED ONLY SECTIONS OF REPORT DEALING WITH HKC INDIFFERENCE TO DRUG PROBLEM, THE LACK OF COOPERATION BETWEEN HKG AND USS AUTHORITIES IN DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM, AND THE CHARGE THAT AN INCREASED FLOW OF NARCOTICS FROM HONG KONG WERE BEING SHIPPED TO THE NETHERLANDS DESTINED FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN GERMANY. HKG SPOKESMAN CLAIMED CLOSE LIAISON PETWEEN HKG AND BNDD, HONG KONG AND STATED THAT ANY CHARGE THAT "CLEARANCE FROM LONDON" WAS PECESSARY BEFORE HKG AUTHORITIES TOOK ACTION WAS UNTRUE. SPOKESMAN ALSO CLAIMED THERE HAS BEEN NO COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE DUTCH CONCERNING INCREASED TRAFFIC FROM HONG KONG.
3. IN INTERVIEW CARRIED BY SCMP, COMMISSIONEN ROLPH MAINTAINED THAT HE, PRISONS COMMISSIONER GARNER, AND POLICE NARCOTICS BUREAU SUPERINTENDENT DUNNING ANDW MORE ABOUT THE PROBLEM THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD." HE CLAIRED 16,000 ARRESTS AND SEJ ZURE SEJZURR OF SIX TONS OF OPIUM AND 112 POUNDS OF HEROJM DURING 1972 INDICATED WHAT WAS BEING DONE BY HEG OFFICIALS TO COMBAT BARCOTICS TRAFFICKING,
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CONGEN RECEIVED ONLY ONE INQUIRY, FROM SCMP, WHICH WAS PROVIDED PREPARED PRESS STATEMENT (HK 3939, PARA 43.
COMMISSIONER ROLPH PERSONALLY REACTEU CALALY TO PREY REPORT, SEC PROVIDER ESSENCE OF RAFVEL AS ROLL AS COMMITTEE PALME WINGERN OF HONG KONG PORNTOW OF WIPORT PRICK TO JTS BEL.PASE ED APPELUDATJON POR MIME COURIERY AND, AUPAREMILY COLONY, EDLOTED REPOST L
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