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5. Mr. Raigorodsky claims that every week at least one of these visiting couples or families buys either a share in the hotel com- pany or some other suitable local investment, as it were, as a down payment for local citizenship. The cash flow has enableď the hotel not only to trade profitably but to prepare a general uplift and refurbishing of the facilities.

6. I will try to secure further background on this story which I already found to be well founded. It has implications for us, as we have no consular facilities and I imagine the Hong Kongans will no doubt hang on to their Hong Kong passports and look to us for help in trouble. I realise that once they take on Domi- nican nationality, they would have no entitlement to British con- sular assistance but I do not relish having to ask proof of British Hong Kong loyalties of an ever increasing number arriving in the

country.

Malen

RG MARLOW

21 October 1983.

Cc: Mr. M.W. Atkinson -Consular Dept. para.3-5

Mr. H.R. Owen

Mr. A.S. Payne

- D/T OTD 5 para.1-2

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Manila para.1-2

Political Adviser, Governor's Office, Hong Kong

Mr. R. D. Clift

Hong Kong Dept. para.3-5

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