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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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..In Confidence
SECRET
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
His Excellency Sir David
Trench, GCMG, MC
Government House,
HONG KONG,
け
Type 1+3 Come
From
W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
(146) on TS. HWB.1019.
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Which made minimal
use of backing by The Auxiliary Air Force.
Under cover of his letter HWB 10/9 of
He
19th July, 1968, Heath Mason sent you a copy of
the study on the feasibility of maintaining a
small Hunter fighter force in Hong Kong, which
had been carried out by the Air Force
Department of the Ministry of Defence.
mentioned in his letter that the Chiefs of
Staff, when approving in June, 1968, the
conclusions reached in the study, had given
instructions that the Commander-in-Chief, Far
East, should carry out a further and more
detailed examination of the matter to determine
a precise breakdown of responsibilities as
between the RAF, the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air
Force and the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering
Corporation in maintaining and operating the
N.P/2. proposed fighter force. This latter exercise
ん
was carried out in consultation with your
Defence Secretary, with the staff of the
Commander British Forces, Hong Kong, with the
O/C RAF, Kai Tak and with the General Manager
of the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering
aff It
Corporation was completed in September, 1968
You will recall that it considered two
alternative schemes (A) and (B) and that it
recommended the adoption of scheme (B), In
putting forward his report, the C.-in-C. FE
mentioned that both you and CBF supported the
adoption of scheme (B).
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