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TO ROUTINE F C O TELNO 231 OF
WASHINGTON.
LIAISON WITH CIA OVER NARCOTICS.
ARY, 1974. INFO ROUTINE
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AS YOU WILL KNOW FROM CORRESPONDENCE START WITH WILL TAMS (122) LETTER TO STUART SCR 4/1316/73 OF 10 JULY 1973 AND ENDING WITH
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ROLPH'S LETTER. TO TRAIN (COPIED TO STUART) OF 11 JANUARY
( 21 NS 62/76/985), WE HAVE FOR SOME TIME BEEN UNDER PRESSURE TO IMPROVE OUR OVERT LIAISON WITH THE UNITED STATES DRUG ENFORCEMENT
ADMINISTRATION. MORE RECENTLY WE HAVE COME UNDER SOME PRESSURE TO DEVELOP THE COVERT LIAISON BETWEEN SPECIAL BRANCH AND THE CIA, WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN A SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL MANDATE IN THIS FIELD.
2. THE CIA'S MAIN INTEREST IS IN HERION 4, OF WHICH THERE IS NOT MUCH IN HONG KONG ITSELF. THEIR PROPOSAL IS TO PENETRATE CHEMISTS
REFINING HERION 4 WHO ARE BASED IN HONG KONG BUT WORK ON CONTRACT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, AND TO RECRUIT A FEW OF THEM HERE WITH THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF MOUNTING OPERATIONS ELSEWHERE. IF ANY OPERATIONS ARE MOUNTED IN HONG KONG THEY WOULD BE STRICTLY UNDER OUR OWN CONTROL. THIS PROPOSAL WOULD INVOLVE NO DEPARTURE IN
PRINCIPLE FROM THE LIAISON WHICH OUR SPECIAL BRANCH AND CIA HAVE MAINTAINED SINCE 1953: THE CHANGE WOULD ONLY BE IN THE
AREA IN WHICH THIS LIAISON IS CONDUCTED.
3, I AM SATISFIED THAT THE INFORMATION WHICH THE AMERICANS MIGHT OBTAIN BY THIS MEANS, AND WHICH THEY WOULD PASS TO SPECIAL BRANCH, WOULD BE OF BENEFIT TO HONG KONG: AS OF COURSE WOULD BE THE INTERRUPTION IN DRUGS TRAFFIC WHICH IT IS HOPED WOULD FOLLOW, SUBJECT THEREFORE TO THE RESERVATION, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY CIA, THAT ANY OPERATION IN HONG KONG AGAINST LOCAL DRUG SYNDICATES, IMPORTERS OR EXPORTERS WOULD BE ENTIRELY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT I SHOULD LIKE TO ACCEDE AT ONCE TO CIA'S
SUGGESTION. DO YOU AGREE?
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