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Telephone: 01-940 9214

Sir Anthony Royle, KCMG,MP

House of Commons

Westminster

London SW1A OAA

20 Bishops Close Ham Common Richmond

Surrey TW10 7DG

8 July 1975

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Dear Sir Anthony

Thank you for your letter of July 3rd enclosing that of June 19th from Lord Goronwy-Roberts, and the copy of the report of the Operations Target Committee of the Hongkong Government's Corruption Commission dated May 1975.

I quite understand the reason for the delay in the report being passed by you to me, and am most grateful that you have taken up with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the discrepancy contained in paragraph 5(b) of the Hongkong Government's report.

Quite apart from that, however, I do not accept the validity of the Commission's findings.

Among the reasons for my dissatisfaction are the following:-

(1) The Commission claims that the person alleged by me to

have acted as the agent of the principal

ing ame bribe retainers, and known to me as

(2

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been identified. He has been identified, from the photographs of all civilian staff employed at Hunghom Police Station at the material time and supplied to me by the Commission. We now know that the ne person whose photograph I picked out is Wo

It is not sufficient simply for the Commission to dismiss my identification by mere reference to a document the authenticity of which is extremely doubtful, to say the least. The combination of Superintendent Hurst's absence of recollection of a servant who served us both for a period of at least seven months in 1962-63, and the service postings record document, does not validate a claim that a man positively identified by me, 12 years later and from a photograph, is not that agent.

I am interested in

ng and I note that the Commission's report accepts that a mere document "confirms" that he was at some other place at the material time, while there is no reference to Mr Wong having made a statement in which he confirms or denies having boon the servant of Mr Hurat and mynolf in October 1962, or that he did or did not twice offer me $500.

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