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CONFIDENTIAL

FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM NO. 373 TO BERNE

3.

6. YOU SHOULD ASSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO WHICH YOU ARE ACCREDITED THAT THERE WILL BE NO, REPEAT NO, PUBLICITY ABOUT OUR APPROACH TO THEM OR ABOUT THEIR REACTIONS TO OUR REQUEST. YOU SHOULD ADD, HOWEVER, THAT IF KNOWLEDGE OF OUR GENERAL DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE BECAME PUBLIC

WE WOULD MERELY CONFIRM THAT WE HAD INFORMED AND SOUGHT THE CO-

OPERATION OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENTS IN THIS MATTER. YOU MAY ALSO SAY

THAT WE MAY INITIATE SOME LIMITED GENERAL PUBLICITY ABOUT THE

PLIGHT OF THE MISSION TO COINCIDE WITH THIS EXERCISE.

SOSFA/CROSEC

DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION

F.0.

F.E.D.

0.0.

NORTHERN DEPARTMENT

WESTERN DEPARTMENT

EASTERN DEPARTMENT

N.E.A.D.

W.C.A.D.

S.E.A.D.

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

I.R.D.

NEWS DEPARTMENT

HONG KONG DEPARTMENT

S.A.D.

B.A.D.

Z.M. & S.A.D.

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