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Mr O'Keeffe

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INTERCEPTION OF THAI TRAWLERS ON THE HIGH SEAS

1. I have now received from Mr de Deney his record of the meeting held on 24 July with the Hong Kong Commissioner of Narcotics.

2. You will recall that you asked me to draft a letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary suggesting that the Narcotics people in Hong Kong set out in detail how they think the scheme to put a Thai official on board a trawler from a Royal Naval vessel would operate. However, Mr de Deney's record of the meeting is somewhat fuller than I had expected (he did not take any notes during the meeting

eting. He does I think give sufficient detail on those aspects of the scheme that would involve the Royal Navy and I think that we need not write to Hong Kong at this stage.

3. I therefore attach a draft letter to the MOD, forwarding a copy of Mr de Deney's record of the meeting on 24 July, asking for their considered comments on the proposed scheme.

CODE 18-77

1 August 1975

Abatton

A L Wotton

Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department

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