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Mr. Hall

This is one of the files for which you have asked

in connection with tomorrow afternoon's meeting of the

Under-Secretaries Committee on Hong Kong.

2. You saw Mr. de la Mare's minute at (2) which refers to the C-in-C FE signal at (10) on the subject of psychological operations in Hong Kong. The C-in-C FE

signal was considered by the Committee of Under Secretaries on 12 July and paragraph 6(b) of the record at (E/5B) refers.

As a result of that, a Working Party on Information Services

G was set up under the auspices of J.I.P, D and held its inaugural meeting on 17 July. A record of that meeting is at (10/E/1), and the Working Group decided, as a first step, to send a circular letter to all diplomatic posts abroad in terms of the draft at (10/c/ii). The point immediately

under consideration is the question of the issue of the

draft letter. It has not yet issued and you will note from Sir Arthur Galsworthy's minute at (14) that he is happy for the draft to issue if it meets with departmental approval: at the same time he wants a letter to go to Mr. Gass informing

him of what is in the wind.

3. The draft circular letter seems to be quite harmless

and I can see no reason why it should not issue; Mr. Carter holds the same view. We have not, however, as yet informed the Secretary of the Working Group to this effect.

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Mr. Rivett-Carnac of J.I.P.D. recently went out to Hong Kong on a short-term assignment to help the Information Services Department. He has had previous experience of the kind of operations envisaged in the C-in-C FE signal at (10).

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(A.W. Gaminara)

7.8.67.