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LETTER FROM MR DAVID MESSIAS ABOUT HONG KONG
AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
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1. Mr Messias wrote to the PUS on 9 June about an
unhelpful article in the Birmingham News, Alabama.
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2. A draft reply is attached. SAMD and the Emergency
Unit concur.
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3. The Birmingham News article dated 2 June is based
very closely on a syndicated article by Mr Walter Easy,
carried by the Guardian on 26 April. Another similar
version appeared in the Glasgow Herald in May.
4.
attached to (25)
Mr Easy, a former Hong Kong policeman, is Secretary,
Founder and sole member of the Hong Kong Research
Project in London, which is subsidised by the World
Council of Churches. He is a well known critic of FCO
policy towards Hong Kong and is known to have provided
left wing Labour party MPs with material for critical
PQs on Hong Kong matters.
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