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A C Galsworthy Esq

PEKING

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

17 October 1983

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Dean Tony,

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Croslio

FUTURE OF HONG KONG: REPORTING BY MICHAEL PARKES

Thank you for your letter of 26 August. I am sorry we have not replied sooner.

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I am afraid we do not have much to add to your researches. The Los Angeles Times representative here is Bill Tuohy. Neither we nor News Department have arranged any briefings for Tuohy on Hong Kong, although News Department tell us that he does have fairly good contacts both among politicians and in Whitehall. I think I can say quite categorically that if a ''senior FCO official had given a briefing on Hong Kong to a Los Angeles Times journalist. we would have known about it.

Deil

RD Clift

Hong Kong Department

cc: R P Margolis, Esq, Deputy Political Adviser, Hong Kong

Mr Thomson, FED

Mr Clarke, News Dept

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