CONFIDENTIAL

United Nations Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

C W Squire Esq CMG MVO Washington

Dear Bill,

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

1.

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5 March 1979

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RECEIVED IN 1910 51 - 6 MAR 1979

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The governments to which you and the other recipients of this letter are accredited may find it helpful to have copies of two pieces of paper handed over by Hugh Cortazzi to the Vietnamese Ambassador on 27 February. The texts are in the two savingrams enclosed. The Americans already know about the existence of the "Lucky Dragon" but should be interested to know of the action we have taken in this regard.

2.

We have given a copy of these two papers, on a personal basis, to the representative in London of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who asked me recently if there was any evidence of Vietnamese official complicity we could communicate

to him.

For action:

cc (with enclosure)

Heads of Chancery:

Bonn Canberra

Ottawa

Paris

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For information:

cc (without enclosure)

Head of Chancery

UKMis Geneva

нивели

Juns

Michel

(M K O Simpson-Orlebar)

SEAD

HK&GD

Mr Leahy

CONFIDENTIAL,

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