FEC
5/508/5
STRICTLY PERSONAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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Despatched
19/" Ave.
18 November, 1970
Female Confrontation Prisoners
You will have seen from paragraph 2 of my letter of 13 November to John Denson that the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires told me firmly that the release of the two further sick prisoners was not enough to secure the release of Johnston. According to Ma a further gesture on our part is required.
2. You will recall that during our most memorable after- noon at Stanley Gaol the Commissioner of Prisons volunteered that he thought he would have no difficulty in recommending the release of some seven or eight women confrontation prisoners. I presume that this was based solely on some special consideration for their sex. I seem to recall that he said that all had behaved very well in prison.
3. We said at the time that we should like to concentrate for the moment on sick prisoners but that if that did not do the trick we should then like to consider whether something could be arranged with the women.
I now think that we are going to need to play this card, or something like it, before we shall get Johnston. What would your advice be about how we should sound this out father? Are there, for example, some other non-confrontation women we could release at the same time?
5. I am copying this letter on the same strictly personal basis to John Denson.
A. F. Maddocks, #q.,
HÙNG XONG.
Copy to: J. B. Denson, Esq., 0.5.E.,
PEKING.
(STRICTLY PERSONAL)
CONFIDENTIAL
(J. A. L. Morgan)
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