TNAG-0069-FCO40-105-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-propaganda-1967 — Page 149

WORKING GROUP ON HONG KONG.

Note of a meeting held in Diverwalk House on Monday 17 July, 1967 under the chairmanship of Mr. J.. Feck.

Present:-

Mr. J.B. Dengon ·

Mr. A.. Gaminara

Mr. G.3. Littlejohn-Cook

Mr. W. Carrocher

Col. Wilde

Mr. k.k. Crook

Mr. C. Wilson

Far Eastern Dept.

Hong Kong and West India Dept. J.I.T.G.D.

News Dept. C.R.O.

Ministry of Defence.

I.R.D.

I.R.D.

The Under

2. The Chairmen explained the origins of the group. Secretary's Committee on Hong Kong had instructed him to establish a working group to coordinate the activities of all government departments bendling information material on Hong Kang • It was not intended that

wit, but it woul, the committee should constitute a new executive

unit, but it would discuss operational themes and make recommen-- datione for action to the appropriate deportments. The object of the group would be to concentrate on the targets outaide Hong Kong while supporting the work of the Hong Kong Government Information Serviceb. He proposed that the purpose of the first meeting wes to decide the targets of the information effort, both inside and outside Hong Kong; to examine the existing information machinery; to decide the themes to be exploited; and to review the

Subsequently

nources of the material to trate these themes.

in reply to a question from Col. Wilde it was agreed that policy guidance would be formulated not by the Committee but by the IRD and F.0. Foliticial Departments.

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The paper reproduced as Annex A was circulated with the comment that departments were of 3 types:- those concerned only with producing information, those producing information and feeding it to outside contacts, and purely executive departments.

EXISTING MACHINERY HONG KONG

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4. The paper reproduced at Annex B was circulated with the commen that it had been prepared after discussion with Mr. Elliott the Folitical Advisor. Information work devolved mainly on the Hong Kong Government Information Services, which had daily meetinga under the chairmanship of the Colonial Secretary.

THIS IS A COPY

THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RETAINED

IN THE DEPARTMENT UN

LECTION

3 (4) OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1968