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YOUR TELELETTER (PRENTICE/LEEKS) OF 19 DECEMBERE and AK telno 38
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: US POLICY
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Over lunch with Nash (SEAD) on 17 December, Hugh Neighbour (US Embassy) gave what appeared to be the formal US
response to our demarche. This was that during Fiscal year 1986, ie from October 1986, the US would considef an offtake from Hong
Kong of around 1600 (about the same as in FY 1985). The exact terms of the response are given in MIFT which contains text of
State Department telegram of instruction to US Embassy in London.
You should not repeat not reveal that Neighbour handed over the US telegram as he was apparently going beyond his written
instructions in doing so.
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In reply Nash said that he would report the substance of the US response. While thanking the/ US for its contribution to
date, he said that he hoped that the US Government would
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OLIVIA WALKER
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