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HONG KONG. THE ONLY NUANCES HE ADDED WERE THAT A FOURTH CATEGORY

OF MALAYSIANS WAS BEING CONTEMPLATED IN ADDITION TO THOSE FROM

THAILAND, HONG KONG, AND MANILA, AND THAT THOSE IN THE PHILLIPINES, MANY OF WHOM ARRIVED 3 YEARS AGO, WERE SUSPECTED OF BEING HEAVILY INFILTRATED BY THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE SELECTION PROCESS MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME. HE THOUGHT THAT THIS MIGHT

AFFECT THE NUMBERS ACTUALLY TAKEN FROM HONG KONG, THOUGH HE CORRECTLY PREDICTED THAT THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES WOULD MAKE NO

REFERENCE TO THIS WHEN SPEAKING TO US.

5.

GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD PRESERVE THE CONDIFENCE OF PRIM, WHOSE

POSITION ON THE SPANISH INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE COULD BE PRE-

JUDICED IF HIS INFORMATION WAS QUOTED BACK TO PEREZ DEL ARCO.

ACLAND

FILES

SEAD HK & GD

MR MURRAY MR STRATTON

LORD NG LENNOX

UND

FED

EID.

PUSD

OID

IPD

NEWS DEPT

PS

PS/LPS

PS/LR BLAKER

PS/PUS

SIR A DUFF MR CORTAZZI

ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION

BOAT PEOPLE

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