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avoid the impression that we are rushing the Order through
still have a battle to fight with the Home Office
but we may
about this.)
Ex-President Marcos
3.
The Marcos family
asked HKG through an URBCO member
whether they might come to Hong Kong
Kong for a short stay"
(some months). We established that Marcos had been in touch
with his political allies in the Philippines from Honolulu
(and could obviously interfere in Philippines politics more
easily from Hong Kong); that the family resented the
restrictions On their movements in Hawaii and were looking
for somewhere else to live; and that the US Administration
also looking for some other place of
for exile
the
Marcoses (though they had not yet thought of Hong Kong). We therefore suggested that the family be told through the same
channel that they
they would not be welcome in Hong Kong. This
has been done and there has been no publicity.
were
19 March 1986
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A M Layden
Hong Kong Department
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