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(3) Instructed the Joint Planning Staff to take the
necessary action as agreed at (e) above.
(4)
(5)
(6)
Instructed the Secretary to take the necessary action
as agreed at (f) above.
Invited the Commonwealth Relations Office to take
aotion in accordance with (g) above.
Invited the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office
to take note of their views at (b) and (h) above.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, S.W.1.
16TH JANUARY, 1958.
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CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
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THREAT TO HONG KONG FROM COMMUNIST CHINA
Copy of a letter (Reference: JPG 255) dated 4th December, 1957, from the Foreign Office to the Secretary, Chiefs of Staff
Committee
Now that the Chiefs of Staff have approved the Joint Intelligence Committee report "The Subversive and Military Threats to Hong Kong from Communist China up to the end of
962" (J.1.C.(57)114(Final Revise)) we are looking into the second part of the Anglo-American Working Group's study - Measures to deal with the Threat. We do not think that action on the latter need be held up until our threat esti- mate and that of the United States have bren reconciled by the Working Group. The two estimates appear at first sight to be very broadly in agreement, and we therefore consider that the J.I.C. report can be used for planning purposes.
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The measures can be classified under two headings: military and political. We shall approach the Colonial Office about the political measures, and we should be grate- ful if you could ask the Joint Planning Staff to prepare a
A lot of ground is report on joint military measures. already covered by C.0.s.(57)131 of June 5, 1957 "Combined
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Hong Kong", which deals with measures to confront overt Chinese aggression. The J.I.C. report, however, deals also with other types of threat, (summarised in paragraph 2 of the report), and we should be grateful if any appropriate military measures to deal with these could also be considered.
3.
When the report we are requesting is completed, we shall, I think, have to submit to Ministers the political assumptions on which it is based. I suggest that these should continue to be as stated in paragraph 4 atAnnex to C.0.s.(57)131.
(Signed)
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, S.W.1.
R.W.J. HOOPER
9TH DECEMBER, 1957.
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