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be another of the cluster of semi-autonomous agents, running' informers, making cases and using US support facilities, including the tame police force to make arrests; thirdly that he should provide. some additional skill which SNO lacks. For example a Chinese officer speaking several dialects of Chinese might be of enormous value in interrogating and improving information on the considerable numbers of Chinese speakers engaged in the opium trade, the KMT, the Yao and Meo tribesmen and the Chinese merchants down the line to Fangkok.
3. I should perhaps add that anyone attached to the SNO would also share the risks. Tam told by the BNDD up here that the price on their heads has recently been raised from US350 to US$500 and this may be some measure of the difficulties they are causing.
learly they are not stopping even 10% yet, but the increase in the price on their heads and the precautions they are taking to prevent anyone collecting that price argue that they are causing problem for the opium trade.
co N Rolph Esq, HONG KONG
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Barney (L.B. Smith)
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