TNAG-0716-FCO40-912-Air-hijacking-and-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 49

SECRET

Reference.

Mr Quantrill

HKGD

antrill

135/1

Plr Jasper Ron Assli

cc: Mr Goodenough

MAED

WIAD

PDTD

MCD

22571

HKG OsI/1

RECEIVED PANDORA NO. 51 - 6 JAN 1978

DESK OFFICER

INDEX

PA

No

J.J.

REGISTRY Action Taken

El

South America Department

HI JACKING INCIDENTS IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

1.

2.

10)

HKC 051/1 (7)

Thank you for copying to SED your minute of 30 December.

Recent correspondence about hijack contingency planning in Gibraltar has been transferred to MAED, but, with reference to your paragraph 1(d), I recall that the idea of supplying "a force practised in the techniques of terminating seizures by force" from the British Army Resident Battalion or the local police presents considerable practical problems and is not welcome to the Governor, who in the case of Gibraltar is also substantive Commander in Chief.

4 January 1978

CODE 18-77

SS 10/76

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F H Brown

Southern European Department W134A 233 5578