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Mr Vale

HONG KONG: DEFENCE COSTS

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You asked to see the latest papers on this subject and I suggest that in particular you will wish to glance at the following:

Mr O'Keeffe's submission to the Private Secretary dated 18 July.

The relevant extract from the minutes of the OPD meeting on 22 July.

Mr O'Keeffe's submission to Sir Duncan Watson dated 31 July.

FCC telegrams numbers 593 and 594 to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong telegrams numbers 796 and 797 to the FCC.

You will also see from the note of the meeting held in MCD on 17

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18 July that officials have now agreed the outline of a draft Memorandum of Understanding subject to a satisfactory outcome of the crucial negotiations on cost sharing.

2. I also attach below a minute to Mr O'Keeffe about the meeting which I attended in MOD this morning in his absence on leave.

B.H. Finniddy

B H Dinwiddy

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department

21 August 1975

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