CONFIDENTIAL
SPECIAL PUBLICITY UNIT
Established: 13 June 1967.
ANNEX E
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Headed by the Deputy Director of Information Services (D.C. Rivett-Carnac standing in for him until 18 September) the Unit is housed with G.I.S. and comprises components from G.I.S. (7 staff members), the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs (3 staff members) and Radio Hong Kong (5 staff members). A Police Inspector acts as liaison officer with H.K. Special Branch.
Ancillary production and support staff comprise 1 personal secretary, 2 audio-shorthand typists, 2 typists, 2 translators and 4 Chinese calligraphists.
The G.I.S., S.C.A. and Radio H.K. components initiate projects and can call for additional assistance, where necessary, from the G.I.S. news room and photographic and film sections, from the S.C.A. research apparatus and from R.H.K.'s Topics and Topical Events programme staffs and other sections.
Policy directives and ideas for projects are received from the Publicity Committee (see Annex B). Other ideas for projects are contributed by police and government departments, with which the Unit maintains close touch.
The output of the Unit has hitherto been aimed exclusively at targets within Hong Kong. Attention is now being turned, however, also to the production of material and services to reach Hong Kong citizens overseas, and particularly to the 40,000 H.K.-based seamon serving in mercantile fleets around the world who are being increasingly subjected to Communist threats and subversion.
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