TNAG-0063-FCO40-99-Defence-extra-costs-arising-from-the-internal-security-situa-1968 — Page 86

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Our reference: AUS(P & B)/208 Your reference:

Mr. E.G. Cass, O.B.E.

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Main Building, Whitehall, LONDON S.W.I

Telephone: WHItehall 7022, ext. 2134

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Mr Cister

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Thank you for your letter of 4th October about extra charges arising out of military assistance to the civil authorities in Hong Kong. I am sending a copy of your letter to the Army Department and asking them to provide details of amounts and the nature of the services rendered as you ask.

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On the general principle, however, I would refer you to paragraph 9 of what is hoped to be the final draft of the paper on the control of expenditure on military aid which was circulated by Mrs. Hedley-Miller under cover of a letter dated September 1967, addressed to Garvey of the Foreign Office, a copy of which went to Walsh-Atkins in your department. This reads as follows:

"Civil Votes should continue to reimburse to the

Ministry of Defence the extra costs of predominantly civil (normally internal security) operations. Examples are internal security operations in the colonies a declining commitment), airlift of civil supplies (as in Zambia) and the civil work of the R.E. unit in Thailand. By their nature, such operating can seldom be forecast.

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The document from which this quotation comes has been discussed between departments for some time and was circulated in the expectation that it would be an agreed draft.

Yours sincerely,

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H.P. Hall, Esq,

Commonwealth Officec, Curtis Green

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