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Defence Secretariat 6

SE SECRETT

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB

Telephone 01-218 2241 (Direct Dialling)

W Quantrill Esq

01-218 9000

FCO Hong Kong Dept

Dear Quantrill.

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DS6/46/66/1

27 April 1978

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I spoke to Mike Upton on Thursday evening and told him of a recent signal from Hong Kong, a copy of which I attach for your information. It takes the Governor's "study" a stage further and reports a discussion between CDS, on his way to China, and the Acting Governor.

We are happy with the line now being taken in Hong Kong, and would expect the chain of events to be that the Governor would send some sort of paper including a revised IS threat assessment to the FCO. Once this had been digested on your side of Whitehall, we would expect an approach from your Ministers to ours to bring MOD and CBF and his staff into play.

Yours sincerely

'S SECRET ET

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