Registry HWB 14/58 No.
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Unclassified.
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In Confidence
DRAFT Semi-Official Letter Type 1 +
To:-
Nigel Fisher, Esq.,
M.C., M.P.,
House of Commons, S.W.1.
From
12
Lord Shepherd.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
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I am now able to let you have a
substantive reply to your letter of 15 July
about Mrs. Elliott's alligations of corruption
in Hong Kong. The letters which you have
received from Mrs. Elliott are for the most
allegations
part concerned with general eerruption
the Police and various other Government
employees.
against
I am afraid that without: specific
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details to support each allégation it is
impossible to take effective action in such
can commere om
cases. However, I deal below with one or two
of the instances to which Mrs. Elliott refers.
In the case of the anonymous letter from "A Supporter of Good Law and Order", a copy of
Corrupt
the paragraph describing the court activities
of Court Bailiffs was sent by Mrs. Elliott
direct to the Anti-Corruption Branch of the
Police. In a covering letter Mrs. Elliott
stated that she knew the name and address of
the informant which she would disclose only
if certain conditions were complied with.
These conditions were unacceptable to the
Police, and the way deording
informed that
the alligations would be investigated, at the
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ingen
same time she was asked to persuade
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/her informant
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