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would welcome the opportunity for sending both types of representative and would do all they could to provide the lower powered man to assist the Governor. regards the high level representative, they agreed with Mr. Hayter's suggestion that thin should be the Director- General of the Security Service.
SIR PERCY SILLITOE said that he considered that Mr Johnson whom it had already bear decided should go to Hong Kong as Police Adviser, could give all the expert advice that was likely to be required on Special Branch matters. No felt, therefore, that, unless the issue were a much broader one, such as the co-ordination of intelligence, no useful purpose would be served by his going to Hong Kong as well as Mr. Johnson, provided the latter had the necessary authority to enable him to deal with the problems concerned, The Scotland
Yard representative now in Malaya could perhaps be sent to Hong Kong to help organise security records and similar matters. Is (Sir Percy Billitoe) recalled that there already existed in Hong Kong a form of Joint Intelligence Committee on which the Special Branch were
This Committee met weekly and he
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understood that, although functioning fairly satisfactorily, it suffered from not being officially recognised as a Joint Intelligence Committee. He also understood that a weakness in thie Comittee was that the Hong Kong Police Special Branch did not disclose all the information they had which would be of interest to the Committee. However, if it wao thought that it was desirable that he es well as Mr. Johnson should go to Hong Kong to advise the Governor on the broader aspects of the civil intelligence system, he would be prepared to do so.
MR. PA SKIN pointed out that a possible reason for the Intelligence Committee in Hong Kong not being recognised officially as a Joint Intelligence Committee might be that if it were so recognised, it would became subordinate to the Joint Intelligence Committee, Far East, and by reason of this, the Governor might consider that owing to the different overt situations affecting communism, in Malaya and Hong Kong, there would be a danger that the Hong Kong Comittee might get a wrong approach to its work.
In discussion it was generally agreed that, in view of the current situation, every effort must be made to overcome any difficulties in the way of the establishment of a satisfactory Intelligence organisation in Hong Kong. It was also agreed that the most suitable export to send to Hong Kong to advise the Governor on the broader aspects of combating communism would be the Director-General of the Security Service. His visit should be in addition to that of Mr. Johnson and it would be an advantage if they could go out together. It should be left to the Director-General of the
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