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question of a continuing liability.

The provision of this limited assistance to the Americans is so manifestly worth while from the humanitarian point of view and our people here are pretty confident that we can keep any risk to our immigration policy to the absolute minimum. But we will not go too far down the track until we have had a trial and only after securing Sampatkumar's cooperation. do not wish to publicize our actions for obvious reasons, but if we are challenged we will justify the transit facility on normal immigration grounds and as an extension of the principles threshed out during the 'Ava' case.

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Yours

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