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INFO GOVERNOR HONG KONG (FOR GOVERNOR AND POLAD) PEKING MODUK (DSIO) YOUR TEL 349 TO HONG KONG AND PEKING'S NO 264 TO YOU
COUNTER-TERRORISM:
1. I CANNOT OF COURSE COMMENT ON PEKING'S ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY CHINESE REACTIONS, BUT ON THE POINT OF NUMBERS AND AFFILIATION IN PARA 2 OF YOUR TELEGRAM I DO NOT THINK WE ARE LIKELY TO BE DEALING EITHER WITH JAPANESE MILITARY PERSONNEL, OR A NUMBER AS HIGH AS YOU INDICATE FOG AS LONG AS SUGGESTED.
2, AS YOU KNOW THE PRINCIPAL JAPANESE AGENCY INVOLVED IN COUNTER- TERRORISM IS THE NATIONAL POLICE AGENCY AND IT WOULD BE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WOULD ATTEND ANY COURII. WITHOUT GOING INTO THE QUESTION OF INTERPRETATION I THINK THE NPA WOULD BE HARD PUT TO MUSTER AS MANY AS TWENTY-FIVE OFFICERS CAPABLE OF ABSORBING THIS SORT OF INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH, WHAT SEEMS MORE LIKELY IS THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO TRAIN A SMALL CADRE OF SAY SIX TO TEN WHO COULD THEN TRAIN OTHERS. THREE TO FOUR WEEKS WOULD SEEM THE SORT OF LENGTH THEY COULD COPE WITH. THE RECONNAISSANCE TEAM WOULD BE ABLE TO DISCUSS THESE DETAILS.
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