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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RETAINED LOWER ALDENT ROAD
IN THE DEPARTMENT UNDER
SECTION 3 (4) OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1958
18 September, 1981
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EX-BONG KONG POLICE OFFICER JOHN TSANG (CENG ZHAOKE)
TANG
I owe an explanation of why I had to send you a Flash telegram last Friday evening (copy now attached, with your reply, for the FCO).
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John Tsang
Without going into the affair in detail, I
was due to arrive in Hong Kong on the Monday morning by through train and take a flight through Tokyo to Canada on the Wednesday. John Tsang was originally a senior member of the Police Force who was arrested and deported for life for espionage in 1961, The case is a notorious one here. His disloyalty caused considerable damage in the Police Force and probably set back the cause of promotion of local officers by several years. He is, naturally, on the Special Branch Watch List and would have been picked up if he had entered Hong Kong using his own
name.
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Tsang would be coming together with a delegation from
As you Guangdong headed by Vice Governor Yang Kanghua; know, the agreement on the through train lays it down that those using it should have proper travel documents. far as we knew, none of those concerned had Hong Kong transit visas. That was why I needed to check urgently on Friday night.
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We decided that we should head off Tsang rather than have a possible scene at Kowloon Railway Station with him arriving as part of an inadequately documented delegation and being turned back. Our information on the flight out of Hong Kong was sufficiently overt to be used. I therefore told NCHA that we bad information that a perucn of this name intended to fly from Hong Kong on the
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