TNAG-0069-FCO40-105-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-propaganda-1967 — Page 105

GOVERNMENT

INFORMATION

府政

處闖新

YONG

KONG

VERNMENT

SERVICES

*

ISD 21/62(CR)

SECRET

14th September, 1967.

Дов

(10/2)

Annex A

Annexes

3, C & D

Annex E

With his letter IR 1/240/15 of 21 August Colin Wilson sent me copies of various papers produced by the Hong Kong Working Group and a copy of your circular letter to posts of 15 August.

2.

I have discussed these papers with Anthony Elliott and am now writing to give you an up-to-date description of how the task of repairing the damage of the last four months is being tackled on the information side in Hong Kong. The diagram showing publicity arrange- ments in Hong Kong, attached as Annex B to the minutes of the Hong Kong Working Group's meeting on 17 July, is now out of date and in- complete and should be discarded. A revised diagram is attached at Annex A to this letter. Targets are indicated in the body of the diagram and are not listed separately.

3.

Three committees have been developed which between them cover most of the field of information work on Hong Kong as organised from within the Colony. These are the Publicity and Overseas Publicity Committees, on which the main burden of the work falls, and the Clandestine Propaganda Group. Notes on each are attached at Annexes B, C and D respectively. As you will see, one area not at present fully exploited is in the field of unattributable activities in Chinese within Ilong Kong; thore is a gap hore which the RIO might help to fill at a future dato, and Nigel Clive I know has this problem in mind. A note on the composition and activities of the Special Publicity Unit is at Annex E. As explained in my letter to you RC/SPU/2 of 3 August I have been responsible for running the Unit during Nigel Watt's absence on leave. When Mike Stevenson, who has been standing in as Acting Director of Information Services, takes over the Unit again when Watt returns next week, I shall be able to devote more time to building up information communications and services between Hong Kong and London. I have now been formally asked to stay on here for "as long as possible" with this aim in mind; this means in effect until towards the end of November, by which time the machine should be in top gear and running smoothly.

18/E

G.S. Littlejohn-Cook, Esq.,

J.I.P.G.D.,

F.O./C.O.,

King Charles Street,

London, S.'.1,

England.

SECRET

14.

Page 105Page 106