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ear open for suitable visitors particularly in the course of our congressional and academic contacts.

3.

At the same time, she gave me a copy of the Rand Corporation document on Chinese negotiating behaviour

(my letter of

28 January). This was in response to an enquiry of mine several weeks ago, and I naturally did not tell her that we had already received a copy from another source. HKK 44 She asked that we treat the document as confidential.

CC:

Your

ever

Stephen Gomersan.

S J Gomersall

RJT McLaren Esq CMG, Hong Kong

A C Galsworthy Esq, Peking

THIS IS A COPY

THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RETAINED IN THE DEPARTMENT UNDER SECTION 3 (4) OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1958

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