CONFIDENTIAL
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in a practice run in the middle of September;
and we attended a presentation, arranged at
our request, of the procedures which the
Assessment Office planned to apply. We also
made it our business to become acquainted
with the individual members of the Office,
and to observe, without interfering, how
they were performing their duties.
(b) Throughout the consultation period we carried
out spot checks of the way in which the Assessment
Office was implementing its procedures
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that
is, the processes of collecting the letters
and submissions from P.0. Box 9000, of registering,
translating, analysing and assessing them; and
finally of disposing of them with the required
safeguards for confidentiality.
(c)
We arranged to receive and scrutinise ourselves
all the letters, submissions, media reports
and articles received as a basis for checking
the accuracy and the impartiality with which
the Assessment Office was making its daily analyses
and assessments.