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1. Ho also questioned me about the Embassy's role in this case. Ile again asked whether we had had a list of prisoners from Hong Kong and when I repeated that we had not he commented that this seemed strange. also asked whether anyone from the Embassy had been present when the prisoners were returned to South Vietnam. I told him that there had been no-one. once again stressed the danger of being taken in by substitutions at tho trial.

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5. From my conversation with Mr Sanguinetti I formed the impression that -

he had come to South Vietnam with some unfavourable impressions of the country, and that during his stay he had sought and almost certainly found, suflicient material to justify these impressions, and

ii) apart from concentrating on the case of

the 118, which was what we were told Amnesty had sent him to do he appears to have spent a great deal of time making contact with members of the radical

opposition on the subject of political prisoners in general.

That said, he was extremely affable when we parted, and nothing in his demeanour suggested that he was

dissatisfied with the reception this Embassy had given

him.

CC:

ما

S EAD

Squire Esq

FCO

Political Adviser

british Trade Commission

Hong Kong

SI Soutar.

12 August 1974.

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