Mr Burns Sir J Coles
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better to some.
S.c.27.
FROM:
N J Cox
Hong Kong Department
DATE:
21 November 1991
CC:
Mr Ricketts
HKG AND UK BUSINESS: AIRPORT ETC
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The Governor's rather bad-tempered letter of 11
November to Sir J Coles asked where had we heard "the
stories" that Giscard and Shultz had lobbied in Hong Kong in
support of our competitors.
2.
Mr Burns first mentioned Shultz's and Giscard's
lobbying in a personal letter to Mr Heap of 24 September.
3. Mr Heap's telno Otter 169 of 4 September had quoted Mr Richard Allen (Provisional Airport Authority) as saying that
the Bouygues-Dragages group had recently sent to Hong Kong a group of 15 top people led by Giscard. It is odd that he seems to have seen no-one in Government, but perhaps it was during the Governor's summer leave and he did not want to
deal at lower level.
4.
I have not found the date of Shultz's penultimate visit to Hong Kong, but Sir D Wilson admits that he puffed Bechtel to Sir D Ford and Sir P Jacobs; that he was again in Hong
Kong on 9-10 November, and that Mr MacLeod and other senior
Government officials attended a dinner for him.
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