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Registry No.
DEPARTMENT
Hong nóng
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
HWB
PRIORITY MARKINGS
Flash Immediate Priority Routine
*
(Date)
*
Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
reach addressee(s)..
15/10
Despatched
2029
880
CYPHER
[Security_classification"
if any
SECRET
En Clair.
[
Privacy marking -if any
]
Jair
Code Cypher
Draft Telegram to:-
Hong Kong
1528
No.
(Date)
And to:-
[Codeword-if any]
HONG KONG
Addressed to
telegram ..............
1528 (date)
15/10
And to
15/10
POLAD SINGAPORE, WASHINGTON
repeated for information to
Repeat to:-
Pola pore Washington
way
Saving to:-
Distribution:-
As for H.K.
Tel. No. 2085
Copies to:- Long the
Saving to.........
Grey
We are somewhat concerned at the indication in
your telegram No. 2085 that the Chinese
mistakily believe that 19 October is Hsueh's
would
release date. It will be most unfortunate if the
Chinese, having taken a decision of principle to
release Grey in the very near future, were to change
their minds on mistaken belief that Hsueh was
deliberately being detained beyond the earliest
normal date of release.
2. We have already accepted that the premature
release of Hsueh so soon before the due date would
have little significance as a gesture.
But in
view of the possibilities of misunderstanding and
of the desirability of not prolonging Grey's
by
detention even for a few weeks, would it in
practice be possible by inconspicuous administrative
arrangement to release Hsueh on or about
/19 October
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