TNAG-2260-FCO40-3256-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-pres-1991 — Page 86

SECRET

FM FCO

TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

TELNO 1066

OF 051415Z JUNE 91

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING,

SECRET

HKB 182 14

11 JUN199:

UKREP JLG HONG KONG

52

121235

MDHOAN 4893

TOP COPY

NOT?

(49

154

50

YOUR TELNOS 1800-1802: AIRPORT TALKS: PRESS REPORTING

1. MINISTERS ARE FRANKLY MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE PATTERN OF SEEPAGE, IF NOT LEAKAGE, OF INFORMATION ABOUT SENSITIVE AIRPORT ISSUES WHICH HAS BEEN EMERGING IN RECENT WEEKS. WE ARE FAXING TO PS/GH ONE WHICH HAS APPEARED IN TODAY'S FINANCIAL TIMES BY

JOHN ELLIOT.

2.

ALTHOUGH THE REPORTS UNDOUBTEDLY CONTAIN AN ELEMENT OF INTELLIGENT GUESSWORK, THE WRITERS WOULD NEED TO BE TELEPATHIC IN ORDER TO SPECULATE WITH SUCH ACCURACY.

3. WE ARE ALSO STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT MOST OF THE REPORTS ARE THE WORK OF EITHER FANNY WONG OR JOHN ELLIOT.

MINISTERS ARE LIKELY TO WANT TO DISCUSS THIS PROBLEM WITH YOU DURING YOUR VISIT LATER THIS MONTH.

4.

HURD

YYYY

ΜΑΙΝ

PADS SECRET

LIMITED

HKD

HD/FED

HD/NEWS D

HD/PUSD

31

ADDITIONAL

9

DISTRIBUTION

40

HD/PLANNERS

PS

PS/LORD CAITHNESS

PS/PUS

SIR J COLES

MR BURNS

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