RESTRICTED
can however, exceptionally, release the original report and the
tip-off telegrams which led to Rita Nightingale being picked up
in Bangkok. These ought at least to allay Mr Hallmark's suspicions
that the case against her was manufactured, and I recommend that
copies of these documents should be given to Mrs Castle and Mr
Hallmark on a personal basis and that they should be asked to
return them.
6.
I submit a Speaking Note, which has been cleared by the
Legal Advisers, and a Background Note about the case.
19 June 1978
Cha
SF St C Duncan
copy with Speaking Note only to:
Mr Murray
HKGD
SEAD
RESTRICTED
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