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1. I attach a letter from Norman Rolph which has been copied to me by Chris Train in the Home Office about the problem of illicit opium growing in the
Golden Triangle.
2. As Chris Train says it is ground that he has been over before with both Norman Rolph and the US Narcotics people and during the tour of the UN Ad Hoc Committee for the Far East last year.
3.0 There may well be an advantage in a UN-sponsored working group renewing the situation anew, but solutions seem to depend upon political considerations on which a UN expert working group can have little control.
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Chris Train has said that he would like to respond as positively as possible to Norman Rolph and has said that he would welcome an exchange of views with the FCO and particularly with the political departments concerned.
I should be grateful for your comments and also those of Mr
in HKIOD to whom I am also copying
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this minute and Norman Rolph's letter.
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A TR Oaten
21 November 1974
UN Department
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