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himself to the extent that he might supply sufficient personal testimony to allow the Hongkong Government to apply for his extradition. However, Godber is no fool. Nevertheless, having in mind my rather small but peculiar position, I would be happy to assist you in any way that I could in any such projects.
You mentioned that you thought I might regard you as being representative of "the enemy". Having in mind the record of Secretary of State Frederick Lee and Minister of State Mrs Judith Hart with regard to my case, and that they were presumably briefed by your Section, this might be the case. The records will show that Mrs Hart misled Parliament on 14 February 1967 when she said that "no truth" had been found in my allegations, for your Office had been fully advised by me over the years as to why no truth had been found it had not been looked for and where attempts had been made to present it they had been suppressed. I have spoken of my suspicions of your junior minister and I can assure you that these are not without foundation. It is possible that I am doing him a great injustice by having these suspicions but I do not think that I am. Regardless, I am most willing to treat with you as an ally as long as the mutual objective is the public recording of truth as to the conduct of the Administration in Hongkong over the past decade. Neither of us can tell how much injustice has resulted from the existence of an organised corruption conspiracy of which Godber is but a most telling tip of the iceberg. But we both have a duty to ensure that that truth is publicly recognised. It is immaterial to me whether that recognition takes ten weeks, ten months or ten years to accomplish -- and if in the meantime the Hongkong Government is seen genuinely to act against the conspiracy (as Charles Sutcliffe has been seen to do and my friends tell me Sir Murray MacLehase supports) then these facts will be recorded too. When the full record of my experiences as a policeman, journalist, underemployed, unemployed, activist and pure observer are published you will, I trust, see that I have not been unfair to anybody.
I hope you will feel able to join me on Wednesday for lunch with Michael Macoun. In spite of the history of this matter I would like to be able to regard you both as friends but at the same time it would not be possible to move me from my personal position that my discharge was partly the result of my challeng- ing the organised internal graft conspiracy; my case and the organised graft conspiracy are indivisible
as far as I am
concerned. However, I would prefer to discuss these now very tedious matters rather than write about them again at great length. I hope we will be able to meet soon.
Yours sincerely
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ALAN ELLIS
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