CONFIDENTIAL
Cypher/Cat A
PEKING ΤΟ FOREIGN OFFICE
IMMEDIATE
Telno 147
ONFIDENTIAL
26 February 1968
219
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 147 of 26 February. Repeated for information to Hong Kong.
915 Your telegram No. 324 to Hong Kong:
Prison Visits.
In making approach here I shall have to refer to conversations with Hsueh on 28 January and 31 January in which he questioned that arrangements be made for responsible officials of NCNA" to visit NCNA and "patriotic" journalist prisoners.
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Hsueh will assume we are prepared to meet Chinese on this question and that therefore NCNA will be making visits. It will therefore be necessary for me to state at outset that a NCNA representative will be allowed to accompany employer in each case in calling on "patriotic" journalist, rather than be asked, as your paragraph 1(b) suggests.
I have no other comments and hope I may now receive authority to make approach if possible tomorrow 27 February.
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