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November 9th, 1967.

lisueh Ping

Would you please refer to the correspondence resting with your telegram No. 100 of 30th September to the Foreign Cffice about visits to Hsueh Fing in prison.

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I am afraid that we cannot be very helpful over this. The regulations governing visits to prisoners are very clear and the only way, short of enacting yet more now legislation, of preventing visits to Hsueh ing would be to bond the regulations quite blatantly. We do not wish to do this because, apart from other more general considerations, we have based our action against the communist law breakers here entirely on the need to maintain law and order strictly and impartially. have followed the logic of this through as far as the charging of 3 policemen with the murder of a communist trouble-maker while in gaol custody. We have had some difficulty in persuading people of the purity of our motives and should not wish therefore to undermine our position by obviously discriminating against an N.C..A. employee.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Gaminara in the Commonwealth Office and to Denson in the Foreign Office.

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