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CYPHER/CAT A

PRIORITY MOSCOW TO FOREIGN OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 1181

CNFIDENTIAL.

25 JULY 1968.

ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM NO 1181 OF 25 JULY REPEATED

FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING, SOFIA, BUDAPEST, BUCHAREST, PRAGUE

AND WARSAW.

704

YOUR TELEGRAM NO 373 TO BERNE : BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING

IN ANTICIPATION OF THE INSTRUCTIONS FORESHADOWED IN PARAGRAPH 5 OF YOUR TEL UNDER REFERENCE, I INSTRUCTED HEAD OF CHANCERY TO

SPEAK TODAY TO A MEMBER OF THE SECOND EUROPEAN DEPARTMENT ON THE

LINES OF YOUR TELEGRAM UNDER REFERENCE. SUKHODRIEV TOOK

NOTE, AND COMMENTED THAT HE DID NOT THINK THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, FOR THE REASONS OF WHICH H.M.G. WERE OBVIOUSLY AWARE, WOULD FEEL ABLE TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS. IN VIEW OF THE INJUNCTION

(688) IN YOUR TELEGRAM NO 1990 TO MAKE THE APPROACH VERY INFORMALLY,

GIVEN LEFT NO PIECE OF PAPER OTHER THAN A LIST OF THE GOVERNMENTS

WHO ARE BEING APPROACHED.

FO PLEASE PASS PEKING, SOFIA, BUDAPEST, BUCHAREST, PRAGUE AND

WARSAW

SIR G. HARRISON

DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION

F.O.

F.E.D.

REPEATED AS REQUESTED

C.O.

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NORTHERN DEPARTMENT

WESTERN DEPARTMENT

EASTERN DEPARTMENT

N.E.A.D.

W.C.A.D.

3.E.A.D.

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

I.R.D.

NEWS DEPARTMENT

HONG KONG DEPARTMENT

S.A.D.

E.A.D.

Z.M. & S.A.D.

RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.63

26 JUL 1968

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