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16th May, 1975.
Tripartite Conference in London
9th/10th/?11th June. 1975.
I took over my duties as Norman Rolph's successor, full- time,
from 1st May, since when I have been engaged in a series of visits to the various departments, voluntary agencies and institutions connected with the problem of narcotic drugs in Hong Kong I have also been in contact with the Americans here about the London Conference at which they show every intention of being strongly represented. It looks as though Keith Shostrom, the head of the D.E.A. in Hong Kong will most certainly attend, and there is still a possibility that Norman Getzinger, the Deputy Consul General may also come. As you already know, the Canadians are also attending for the first time, although the R.C.M.P. narcotics representative here does not yet know who will be sent.
I attach a note of a meeting which I had with Getzinger and Shostrom earlier this month, and the Political Adviser's comments on it. Doubtless the Taiwan issue will be raised yet again at our meeting. I also wonder whether you have received the special report to Congress made by Mr. Lester Wolff on his mission to Thailand and the Shan States from 27th December 1974 to 13th January 1975, and the statements made by Ambassador Vance, John Bartels, Adrian Cowell and David Feingold at the congressional hearing on the report? If you have not, would you please telegraph me, and I shall have photostats sent to you immediately. I got copies of the documents from the Police Civil Secretary here, to whom they had been sent by Adrian Cowell, an Englishman now in Washington, who spent eighteen months in the Shan States and who, one assumes, was partly instrumental in arranging Lester Wolff's trip into the area early this year. A note I sent to Peter Law in Bangkok, on this issue, is also attached.
May I say that I am looking forward to meeting you, and that I greatly appreciate your remarks on continuing the happy, friendly and fruitful relationships established by Norman Rolph, in the future.
To conclude, I have already written to Norman asking him to attend our meeting, and I also hope to be accompanied by John Rumbelow, the Chief Superintendent of Police in charge of the Narcotics Bureau in Hong Kong, whose incumbency of the post has been outstandingly successful over the past eighteen months. I am having problems in securing the necessary funds for all of us,
Mr. C.J. Train,
Home Office,
Romney House,
Marsham St., LONDON. S.W.1.
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