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TELEGRAM NUMBER 350
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4 OCTOBER 1969
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ADDRESSED TO PEKING TELERAM NO 358 OF 4/18 REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO
MOSCOW PHNOM PENH DACCA KARACHI AND HONG KONG.
YOUR TELEGRAM NO 597: GREY.
ALTHOUGH GREY WOULD APPEAR TO BE IN GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
REUTERS ARE ANXIOUS THAT HE SHOULD HAVE A PROPER MEDICAL EXAMINATION
BEFORE MAKING A FINAL DECISION ABOUT HIS TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS. (MY
TELEGRAM NO 340 OF 1 OCTOBER REFERS). IF HE IS TO TRAVEL BY THE AIR
FRANCE FLIGHT THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE ASSURED THAT HE IS IN A FIT MENTAL
STATE TO FACE UP TO THE STRAINS AND PRESSURES WHICH A LONG JOURNEY WILL
INVOLVE INCLUDING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE END.
DID THE CHINESE GIVE HIM A MEDICAL EXAMINATION BEFORE HE WAS RELEASED?
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO ARRANGE FOR HIM TO SEE A EUROPEAN DOCTOR IN
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PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM GREY TO GERALD LONG,
GENERAL MANAGER, REUTERS.
COMPLETE FREEDOM RESTORED AFTER COURTEOUS, BRIEF INTERVIEW
AT FOREIGN MINISTRY. CONDITIONS WOULD BE AS BEFORE MY FREEDOM
RESTRICTED. AN EXIT VISA COULD BE APPLIED FOR THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS.
PROVISIONALLY I PLAN TO DEPART FROM PEKING NEXT TUESDAY.
REGARDS TO ALL.
TONY GREY.
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ADDRESSED IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO.587 OF 4 OCTOBER RFI REMMEDIATE
RŪGI VRYNJ. 50
MOSCOW, PHNOM PENH, DACCA, KARACHI AND HONG KONG -6 OCT 1969
MY TELEGRAM NO.583 (NOT TO ALL).
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I HAVE HAD A PRELIMINARY TALK WITH GREY.
HE LOOKS RATHER PALE BUT SAYS THAT HE IS IN GOOD HEALTH APART
FROM A SLIGHT COLD. WE WILL ARRANGE FOR HIM TO SEE THE NURSE
AFTER HE HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO RELAX.
HE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE, IF POSSIBLE, ON THE AIR FRANCE FLIGHT
AF 181 ON TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE
TO MAKE THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIM AND
THE ACCOMPANYING OFFICER.
KE HAVE DELIVERED REUTERS LETTER WITH WHICH HE SEEMS HAPPY
AND THE MESSAGE FROM YOU.
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FEE
GREY SEEMED TO BE IN A VERY BALANCED FRAME OF MIND THOUGH NOT
SURPRISINGLY RATHER KEYED UP AND NERVOUS. THE ACCOUNT HE HAS GIVEN US OF
HIS DETENTION INDICATES THAT THE CHINESE WERE EVEN MORE PETTY AND
VINDICTIVE THAN WE HAD THOUGHT. HE IS CLEARLY RELUCTANT TO DEAL MORE
THAN NECESSARY WITH CHINESE OFFICIALDOM NOW THAT HE IS FREE AND WE SHALL
TRY TO SHIELD HIM AS FAR AS POSSIBLE. IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT HE DID
NOT WISH TO GO TO THE PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU THIS EVENING ABOUT HIS EXIT
VISA. WE HOPE THAT THE CHINESE WILL BE WILLING TO ARRANGE THE NECESSARY
FORMALITIES ON MONDAY.
2. GREY WAS FULLY ALIVE TO THE POLITICAL DANGERS OF PASSING THROUGH HONG
KONG AND READILY ASSENTED THAT HE SHOULD LEAVE BY ANOTHER ROUTE. HE HAS
ENQUIRED ABOUT WHETHER THE BRITISH PRESS HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF HMG'S
HANDLING OF HIS CASE BUT HAS HIMSELF SO FAR EXPRESSED NO VIEW. I HAVE
SPOKEN ABOUT THE CASES OF OTHER BRITISH SUBJECTS DETAINED BUT I HAVE NOT
THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO DRAW ON THE ARGUMENTS IN YOUR TELNO 344. I WILL,
I WILL, HOWEVER, DO SO IF NECESSARY LATER. AT PRESENT GREY'S MAIN
RESENTMENT IS DIRECTED
TOWARDS THE CHINESE.
3. IN ANSWER TO PRESS ENQUIRIES HERE WE HAVE MERELY CONFIRMED THAT
GREY'S FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT HAS BEEN RESTORED AND THAT HE IS WITH US. WE
ARE DECLINING TO GRANT INTERVIEWS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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4 OCTOBER 1969 76 JCT 1969
ELEGRAM NO.585
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Please pass following message to Miss Shirley McGuinn
57 York Street, London, W.1.
Released today three o'clock.
No restrictions.
Probably leaving for home in about three days.
All love, Tony.
MR. DENSON.
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PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO MRS. A. GREY 16 MALVERN ROAD,
NORWICH, NORFOLK,
CONDITIONS RESTORED TO NORMAL THREE O'CLOCK TODAY.
I AM PERFECTLY WELL, FREE TO DO AS I PLEASE.
PROBABLY LEAVING WITHIN THREE DAYS.
ALL MY LOVE TO YOU, JUNE, EVERBODY.
TONY.
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My telegram No.582.
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GREY IS NOW AT HIS HOUSE HAVING RETURNED FROM MFA.
GARSIDE IS WITH HIM AND WE INTEND TO BRING HIM TO DIPLOMATIC
COMPOUND WHERE I WILL TALK TO HIM.
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PLACE BUT INDICATED IT WOULD NOT BE AT HIS HOUSE.
MEMBERS OF THE STAFF WILL WAIT OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE AND THE FOREIGN
MINISTRY AND SHALL BE AT THE MISSION.
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IN RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR URGENT INTERVIEW AT MEA, I WAS RECEIVED
THIS EVENING BY TANG, ACTING DIRECTOR OF WEST EUROPEAN DEPARTMENT
AND INFORMED THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WERE AWAITING A
PRECISE REPORT FROM NCNA IN HONG KONG ABOUT RELEASE OF WONG CHAK,
THEY WOULD INFORM US ABOUT THE RESTORATION OF GREY'S FREEDOM
OF MOVEMENT ON RECEIPT OF THIS.
2.1 TOLD TANG WE HAD RECEIVED CONFIRMATION OF THE RELEASE
AT 0906 HOURS THIS MORNING.
AS SOON AS CHINESE HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM THEIR SOURCES
WE THOUGHT THAT FORMALITIES FOR GREY'S DEPARTURE SHOULD BE
COMPLETED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND THAT WE SHNULD BE GRATEFUL
FOR THEIR CO-OPERATION, TANG UNDERTOOK TO BE IN TOUCH WITH
US TOMORROW.
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ADDRESSED TO PEKING TELEGRAM NUMBER 347 OF 2 OCTOBER REPEATED
FOR INFORMATION TO HONG KONG.
ANTHONY GREY.
WHEN YOU SEE GREY, PLEASE TELL HIM ON MY BEHALF HOW GLAD I AM THAT HIS
UNJUSTIFIABLE DETENTION HAS COME TO AN END, AND
CONVEY TO HIM MY ADMIRATION AT THE FORTITUDE WITH WHICH HE
HAS BORNE HIS LONG ORDEAL.
STEWART
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