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Mr. Gregory.

The duplication and transfer of the financial

records of the Hong Hong Government to the Crown Agents

stemmed from the H.K. Civil Internal Security Scheme 1949.

men. 5.6-50 This document was removed from the file by a desk officer 94003/15/50

and never repleced.

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In commenting generally on the scheme in

94003/15/5 despatch No. 97 of 16 June 1950, the C.C. suggested that

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duplicates of certain financial statements should be kept

outside the Colony and H.K. immediately acted on this suggestion

and began sending in, September 1950, duplicates of Accountant

arrangement

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General material to the C.A..

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This was confirmed by Ave. in 3/letter dated 26 December 1950 when it was further suggested

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that a nominal roll of the H.K. Defence Force and their

dependants should also be sent to the C.A.. Later, in

June 1952, Hong Kong asked the C.A. if they would also

accept the records of the Special Constabulary and the

responsibility of keeping them up to date. The records

of the H.K.D.F. have also to be kept up to date and it is

this maintenance of a records that is causing the C.A.

concern. In a minute dated 12 October 1966 you said that

while you could store these records you did not wish to

become involed in their maintenance.

The micro-films already held by R. of R. are

The first to

54002149 the non-financial essential records of H.K..

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1980/4/50

be received in the C.0. was in 1949 (although not transferred

to R. of R. until 1952). I can find no correspondence on the

subject. In 1950, when N. Borneo suggested that their

records should be micro-filmed and stored in a safe place,

Mr. Mitchell minuted "No papers have been traced on the

duplication of records for this sort of security

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