J DI Boyd Esq Political Adviser
HONG KONG
CONFIDENTIAL
FILE
21
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
9 May 1985
Finn,
RELEASE OF SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS CONCERNING HONG KONG
1.
The Governor's
refers.
2.
letter of 1 March to the Chief Clerk
Library and Records Department are drawing up new guidelines for their Sensitivity Review Unit on the types of subject which may be sensitive in
Hong Kong in the next 12 years.
3.
on the
Would be referred
I would be grateful for your comments following proposed list,
all of which
to the Department for advice:
(a) Papers concerning sovereignty over Hong Kong or Hong
Kong's post-1997 situation.
(b)
(c)
(d)
Defence, including potential reactions to attacks on Hong Kong, possible abandonment of the territory, the role of the garrison for internal security
purposes garrison.
and decisions on
the future of the
Papers suggesting that the Governor's or advice was ignored.
automated) witheld
EXCO's]
Papers suggesting that UK interests should be put above Hong Kong's.
(e)
Evacuation Plans
automatically witheld.
(£)
Kowloon Walled
led city.
(g)
(h)
References to repatriation of assets to the event of a crisis.
Doubts about the reliability of Volunteer force, the Chinese in the Chinese population in general.
the UK
in
the Hong Kong Civil Service
or
CONETDENTTAT
HKK 444/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
10 MAY 1985
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