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------In Confidence
To:-
LM Davies Esq CHG OBE Secretary for Security HONG KONG
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FROM
FL O'Keeffe
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
HKID Fle
Thank you for your letters of 6 and 18 June.
2. We passed a copy of the first letter to 10D, pointing out that you were doing your best to meet the requirements (c) and (d) set out in my letter to you of 23 April and adding that (a) and (b) present rather more difficulty. We hay urged them to reconsider whether they can agree to meet the cost of continued RAF operation of the Unit for civil purposes until the end of March 1976; but, although we have not yet received a formal reply; you should know that they are currently sticking to the line that Hong Kong should pay. I expect a forum I reply wey shorth
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3.
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that they on the Governmen
which has been compleaty coundation of the poten considering the possibility of continuing
operate the Unit for their
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to provide for your Civil Aviation Department's
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requirements, your problems would fall away.
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am afraid I cannot be more specific either about when the Americans) are going to make up their
minds or about how long this continued operation might go on. But MOD have agreed we should put
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you this far in the picture in order to explain that at this stage it would not be appropriate to take the matter up through diplomatic channels.
4.
This, of course, explains your difficulty
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in obtaining an authorative statement from the Americans on the two questions set out in your ber of 18 June (though we should obviously be greie fal
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