CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELEGRAM NUMBER 131
16 FEBRUARY 1969
SECRET
FOLLOWING FOR GALSWORTHY.
82 YOUR TELEGRAM 198: GREY.
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1 SEE NO OBJECTION TO REPLYING ALONG THE LINES PROPOSED IN PARA. 4,
EXCEPT THAT I DO NOT MUCH LIKE THE USE OF UNFORTUNATELY, I SUGGEST
OMISSION AND SUBSTITUTION OF A COMMA FOR THE PULL STOP AFTER '1971*
ALTHOUGH VERY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CWHICH WILL BE REPORTED SEPARATELY
MY TELEGRAM 108 REFERS) ARE RATHER DISCOURAGING, NEVERTHELESS I
THINK THERE IS STILL SOME HOPE FOR GREY'S RELEASE DEFORE SEPTEMDEN,
2. ON YOUR PARA. ), I MUST I AM AFRAID POINT OUT THAT THE OBJECTIONS
IN PRINCIPLE TO EARLY RELEASE IN HONG KONG CIY TELEGRAM 44 REFERS)
APPLY AS MUCH TO ONE PRISONER AS TO ELEVEN OR ANY OTHER NUMBER SEMI-
COLON AND THAT TO GO BACK EVEN THIS FAR ON THE STAND VE HAVE NOW
178) CONVEYED IN UNEQUIVOCAL TERMS CYOUR TELEGRAM 67 PARA. 4(A) REFERS)
WOULD SERIOUSLY RISK RELIANCE BEING PLACED ON ANY PUTURE STATEMENTS
WE MADE. WE HAVE SAID THAT RELEASE IN HONG KONG IS IMPOSSIBLE AND WE
MUST STICK TO THIS, EXCEPT OF COURSE ON GROUNDS WHICH WOULD ALLOW ME
TO USE THE PREROGATIVE IN A NORMAL MANNER COR AT LEAST IN A MANNER
WHICH CAN BE MADE TO PASS AS HORMAL, IF SUCH CAN BE FOUND).
3. I REALISE OF COURSE THE DIFFICULTY OF OPPOSING A BREACH OF
PRINCIPLE AGAINST THE ARGUMENT THAT, WHEN ONLY ONE PERSON IS
INVOLVED, IT IS ONLY A LITTLE ONE. BUT I MUST WARM THAT THE RESULTS
MAY BE INCALCULABLE AND FOR THIS REASON I WOULD WISH TO RESERVE MY
FOSITION AT LEAST UNTIL THE ISSUE IS ODVIOUSLY COMING UP.
4. IT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO KNOW WHETHER THERE WAS ANY INDICATION
IN MRS GREY'S LETTER THAT GREY'S CONDITIONS HAD BEEN IMPROVED.
SIR D.TRENCH
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