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United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations 845 Third Avenue New York NY 10022
T J David Esq
Hong Kong and General
Department
FCO
KK 40411
RAMLIVEO DI REGISTRY NO. 51
8 SEP 1977
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2 September 1977
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Ciear Dairot,
"THE GREAT SUITCASE MYSTERY"
1.
Thank you for your letter of 22 August. M. Ngali-Marsala called on me, at my request, this morning. I said that I under- stood that the documents had been handed over to the Congolese Government in Brazzaville and that his mission had now received the firearms and ammunition. Our authorities had made a thorough investigation into the matter. The suitcase had arrived in Hong Kong on 11 July 1976; it had had no label on the outside, either addressee or addressor; and it had lain in the cargo handling area for some nine months. At the end of that period, the cargo handling company had, as was not unusual with unclaimed baggage, opened the suitcase; there was no label inside either.
They had however found pistols and ammunition and had immediately called the Hong Kong police.
2.
M. Ngali-Marsala thanked me profusely for our efforts in obtaining the return of the contents of the suitcase. He did not advert to the fact that one of the documents had been com- promised and, despite the opening I gave him, he did not return to the point which he had made when he called upon me on 26 July, that the suitcase bore the addressor's label. I hope this deals with the point in your paragraph 3.
Yours
2011
c.c.:
A E Donald Esq
Government Secretariat
Hong Kong
P J Roberts Esq
West African Dept, FCO
PRN Fifoot
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