WWNN YHK233-24-0234 PSA 402
: ESPIONAGE (FEATURE);
YSH
BY PAUL MAJENDIE
HONG KONG, AUG 24, REUTER - HONG KONG, EVER WARY OF ITS GIANT NEIGHBOUR, SEVERELY LIMITS THE ENTRY OF SOVIET BLOC CITIZENG HERE AND KEEPS A SHARP LOOK-OUT FOR ANY +CLOAK AND DAGGER+ INFILTRATION BY NATIONALISTS FROM TAIWAN.
FOR THIS BRITISH COLONY OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO CHINA, WHICH WAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED HONG KONG AS CHINESE TERRITORY UNDER TEMPORARY FOREIGN ADMINISTRATION AND WOULD FROWN AT SPY CELLS ON ITS VERY DOORSTEP.
HONG KONG AND CHINA HAVE A PRAGMATIC RELATIONSHIP THAT WORKS WELL AND IT IS UP. TO SPECIAL BRANCH, THE CRACK ANTI-ESPIONAGE SQUAD HERE: TO SEE THAT SECURITY IS KEPT TIGHTLY UNDER CONTROL.
LESS THAN ONE IN FOUR SOVIET-BLOC APPLICANTS ARE ALLOWED IN HERE. LATEST 1978 IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT FIGURES SHOW THAT 85 OF THE 163 SUCCESSFUL EAST EUROPEAN ENTRANTS
HERE POLES, MAINLY THE WIVES OF SEHMEN VISITING THE BUSTLING HARBOUR HERE.
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NNNN YHK234 24-0237 VSA 403
WAGSPZ HONG KONG:
HONG KONG IS AWARE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THE PROBLEM, LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE LIKELY REACTION FROM CHINA: GOVERNMENT SOURCES POINTED OUT.
THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST DAILY PUT IT MORE BLUNTLY: +THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE SPYMASTERS IN MOSCOW REMAIN EAGER TO INFILTRATE HONG KONG, +
IN 1972 SPECIAL BRANCH'S ACTIVITIES WERE DRAMATICALLY HIGHLIGHTED WHEN A SOVIET SCHEME TO RECRUIT LOCAL SPYING TALENT WAS BUSTED WITH THE ARREST OF TWO RUSSIAN SEHMEN AND TWO LOCAL CHINESE BUSINESSMEN.
EVEN NOW THE SOUTH MORNING POST ALLEGES +SOME MOST PECULIAR SERMEN ARE LISTED IN THE MANIFESTS OF RUSSIAN SHIPS ENTERING HONG KONG. THERE HAVE BEEN OCCASIONS ON WHICH MEN LISTED AS STOKERS HAVE BEEN PROVED TO BE SENIOR CHINA WATCHERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE FAR EAST IN VLADIVOSTOCK.+ ==MORE PRN/WK
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