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CONFIDENTIAL
BY BAG
RF WYE ESQ
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT FE SECTION
FCO
23 October 1978
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From time to time I have sent you (and copy addressees) items translated by the local office of the US Foreign Broadcast Informatɣion service from Hong Kong newspapers and magazines. A latest example is enclosed, the october issue of "Cheng Ming" on Hua's family.
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For further circulation we need to have these translations retyped since we get ours in the form of a telegraphic copy on blue paper which does not photo- copy well.
I have been wondering whether this is always necessary. These translations seem not to be carried in the B B C's S W B series. I think this is because the B B C only uses - only has the right to use – radio material from F B I S: I should be grateful if you could check on this point. However, I understand that telegraphic copies of the original F B IS newpaper/ magazine translations do go to the BBC and I wonder whether they could not supply copies more quickly to you and other interested departments in London. Equally, Peking may be able to get a copy from the U SLO.
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Through liaison here with the US Consulate- General and direct with Lee Butkus who heads the FBIS office we can suggest local material which we hope FB IS might be interested in translating. It is always a great help when they agree since the F B IS translators are probably the best in Hong Kong, especially for material about China. However, there are items of more narrow Hong Kong/UK/China interest which F B IS are understandably less interested in and which we can have translated by Government Information services Department here. A more direct system for you and
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