CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: David Wilson
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Mr Hum
1.
DATE:
23 January 1987
CC:
Research Dept
Il baise with Resent Dur. (ken Walker) doing job - 271, his out the motives from 1979 files. Le Du coull be
Please see page 3 of the attached transcript of an interview with Philip Bowring. This is a nasty slander against Lord MacLehose (and now me) which was going the rounds in Hong Kong about three years ago. I shall almost certainly need to nail it at some point. Could you please provide me with the necessary background material. should include:-
i)
ii)
This
the record of Lord MacLehose's conversation with Deng in 1979;
ashed to take
vre bad.
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iii)
Lord MacLehose's press conference on return to Hong Kong from his January visit in 1979;
Hua Guofeng's public statement about Chinese policy towards Hong Kong made, I think, in the autumn of that year before a visit to the UK.
and
CONFIDENTIAL
David Wilson