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Dear Bill,

SECRET

COLONIAL SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

20th May, 1969

Since July 1967, we have been periodically revising the directive on the Joint Command and Control Organisation for dealing with emergencies. The actual machinery has been modified as the times and circumstances have dictated and has coped successfully with all the problems with which we have been faced. We have, however, found some difficulty in defining the machinery in terms which satisfy the need of both the Services and the Police for a fairly rigid command structure, while retaining the flexibility which is essential if the Administration is to play its part fully.

2.

Four copies of the final paper, approved by the Governor's Committee, are attached for your information and such distribution as you think necessary. Copies have been sent to Singapore and the Services have also distributed copies through their own channels. It is not proposed to review this agreed structure for twelve months.

Yours sincerely

(Alastair Todd)

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A.W. Gaminara, Esq., C.M.G., Foreign & Commonwealth Office,

Whitehall,

London, S.W.1.

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