TNAG-0308-FCO40-344-Contributions-of-Hong-Kong-for-costs-of-maintaining-military-1971 — Page 23

Registry No.

ний

10/9

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential,

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

..In Confidence

SECRET

DRAFT LETTER

To:-

A F Thorp Esq OBE Head of F1 (Air) Ministry of Defence

Type 1 +

From

Any Taminara

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Hong Kong

1. Thank you for your letter Head of

Fl(Air)/7835 of 28 April about the recent visit of

the Exchequer and Audit Department team to Hong Kong.

2. You gave me to understand over the telephone

that if, in the unlikely event of any query being

raised on the correspondence to which you refer, there

any was possibility of its contents being made public,

the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as the originating.

department, would first be consulted. Perhaps you

would confirm that this is the position.

We should

certainly not wish any publicity to be given to our

efforts to negotiate in advance with the Governor an

agreed figure for the defence contribution which he

would then attempt to negotiate with his Executive

Council.

SECRET