TNAG-1421-FCO40-1904-Hong-Kong-Parliamentary-Sub-Committee-on-Race-Relations-and--1985 — Page 100

ZSYNZ

TART CM) 9

FOR JEAFFRESON, SECRETARY FOR SECURITY

FROM WOODHOUSE IN NEW YORK

24 OCT 85

NY/GEN/193

COPIED TO : H.K. GOVT. OFFICES IN BRUSSELS,

GENEVA (PL COPY TO WALKER AT UKMIS)

А кольо

CC NW Nash SEAD

pa Per SCORRI

LONDON (PL COPY TO LEEKS AT FCO) WASHINGTON (PL COPY TO GOMERSALL AT BRITISH EMBASSY)

CONFIDENTIAL

DISCUSSIONS AT BRITISH EMBASSY, WASHINGTON

HE SAID THAT AMBASSADOR I SPOKE TO GOMERSALL ON 22 OCTOBER.

COULD DOVELAS WAS A WANING FORCE AND, ALTHOUGH STILL IN CONTROL,

HE WAS NOT (NOT) LIKED EITHER IN STATE BE LARGELY DISCOUNTED. OR THE EMBASSY.

2. FOLLOWING THE MEETING AT WHICH THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR HAD RAISED THE BRITISH INITIATIVE WITH AMBASSADOR DOUGLAS, GOMERSALL HAD SPOKEN TO JIM PURCELL AND DORIS MYSNER (FROM INS) TO FOLLOW UP. HE HAD ALSO SENT LETTERS TO MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES. HE HAD HAD SEVERAL REPLIES WELCOMING THE BRITISH RESPONSE, BUT A DISAPPOINTING LETTER FROM DICK DAY, THE CHIEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR OF THE JUDICIARY SUB-COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY CHAIRED BY SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON (I MET BOTH IN HONG KONG EARLIER THIS YEAR). I ASKED WHETHER LETTERS OF THIS SORT COULD BE COPIED TO WOODHOUSE, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, AND GOMERSALL WILLINGLY AGREED.

!

للل

(END CM)

нск 243/2

RECEIVED IN REGI. TRY

28 OCT 1985

DFSK OFFICER

AFGISTRY

INDEX

PA

Action Taken