NWANYHK235 24-0240 VSA 404
: ESPIONAGE 3, HONG KONG:
IS HONG KONG THEN A HOTRED OF SPIES WITH ORIENTAL JAMES BONDS LURKING LOWN EVERY BACK STREET AND LUSCIOUS. SUZIE WONGS ENTICING SECRETS OUT OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS?
ONE WELL-PLACED SOURCE COMMENTED: +IT HAS ITS NATURAL ATTRACTIONS AS A LISTENING FOST ON CHINA. HOWEVER IT'S A. PRETTY DIFFICULT TERRITORY TO OPERATE IN GIVEN THE STRICT CONTROLS ON ENTRY AND THE SENSITIVITIES OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT,+
EASTERN EUROPEANS ARE ALLOWED IN HERE ON BUSINESS DEALS THAT WOULD BENEFIT EXPORT-ORIENTED HONG KONG, WHOSE TRADE WITH THE CONECON COUNTRIES HAS JUMPED BY MORE THAN 100 PER CENT IN THE PAST DECADE.
BUT THE SOURCE POINTED ONT:+THERE IS A CONTINUOUS MONITORING HERE OF THE RUSSIANS AND THE KUORINTANG (CHINESE NATIONALISTS), ANY SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY BY NATIONALIST SYMPATHISERS WOULD BE VIEWED WITH CONCERN, +
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NNNN YHK236 24-0242 VSA 405
? ESPIONAGE 4 HONG KONG:
IN THE EARLY 1960'S THE SITUATION BECAME
SO BAD AND THE NATIONALISTS SO ACTIVE THAT BRITAIN OFFICIALLY COMPLAINED TO TAIWAN, SOME AGENTS
WENT ON TRIAL BUT MANY MORE WERE QUIETLY DEPORTED TO TAIWAN,
NOT ALL SPIES ARE THE GLAMOROUS FIGURES SO BELOVED OF FICTION WRITERS. SELF-CONFESSED NATIONALIST AGENT HONG TAK-SAU, A BESPECTACLED: BALDING FIGURE WHO HOBBLED INTO COURT ON CRUTCHES, WAS IMPRISONED IN 1971 AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN POSSESSION OF ALMOST 200 POUNDS OF EXPLOSIVE.
HE ALLEGED IN COURT THAT HE WAS SENT FROM TAIWAN TO SUPPLY ARMS AND AMMUNITION TO THE +RIGHTEOUS+ ON THE MAINALAND.
SPECIAL BRANCH IS BY THE VERY NATURE OF
ITS WORK A SHADOWY ORGANISATION, OFFICIAL REQUESTS BY REPORTERS FOR INFORMATION ARE GREETED AFTER DAYS OF DELIBERATION WITH BLAND ANSWERS
THAT GIVE NOTHING AWAY.
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