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SECRET
No. Hun 175/2
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassifled.
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DRAFT LET TER
To:
C D S DRACE-FRANCIS ESQ
ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
HONG KONG
In Confidence
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From
T J David
Telephone No. Ext.
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DSR 11
Department
Hong Kong Geront
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Copy to:
Mr Makepeace Energy Dept
Mr Free-Gore M&GD
Mr Orr FED
Mr Fuller Defence Dept
Mr Rawlinson WED
Mr Scicluna Defence
Secretariat 15
Min of Defence
VISIT OF THE "OTTO HAHN" TO HONG KONG
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1. Thank you for your letter SCR 16/5701/61V of 15 March.
Merry) 2. I have been wondering rathor late in the day I admit - whether the possibility of a successful visit by the "Otto Hahn" to Hong Kong later this year.really justifies all the work that we are now discussing and which someone will
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eventually need to do, Where British interests lie in
this case?
be new to you
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I think our own position and some of it will
is as follows:
190 (a) We have no political objections to the visit and
on fairly fine balance in, the interests of Anglo- German relations generally and in particular to
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keep the West Germans sweet over the visits of our own nuclear submarines to FRG ports)- we would prefer to see it go forward rather than be
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cancelled;
(b) but because we can identify a potential
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Barliamentary/Ministerial interest in the visit if something goes awry, we would wish to be satisfied that your salety arrangements are all that they should be. In practice we would walke to have, by the eve of the "Otto Hahn"'s visit, assurances from the MOD (Navy) and from the Department of Trade and the SRD of the UKAEA (who are HMG's Advisers on these matters) that the arrangements you have made are walk up to UK standards;
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