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Jean Stuart Alar
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
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31st January, 1973.
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Mr Wottas
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Illicit Opium Traffic from Burma
Sir Duncan Watson the Governor enclosed the first two six papers by Norman Rolph, the Commissioner for Narcotic about the drug problem as it affects Hong Kong. I now enclose a copy, with its annexes, of a memorandum from Rolph about an informal American mission of which he has become aware, to LAW Sing-on, who is the main trafficker in illicit opium in the part of Burma bordering Laos and Thailand. I would particularly call attention to para- graph 8 of Rolph's memorandum.
In his letter SCR L/M 4/73 of
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This outing strikes me as pretty good James Bond stuff. Assuming that anything comes of it at all, LAW Sing-on is clearly going to screw as hard a bargain and claw in as much Danegeld as he can.
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Because of the possible political, and even military, interest which it may have I have sent a cony of Rolph's memorandum and its annexes to JSSG: otherwise I have deliberately given it no circulation.
Yours Even
Peter Williams
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A.C. Stuart, Esq., CPM,
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, S.W.1,
U.K.
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