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14-08-2017, 12:40 AM
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Mention of Lucy Davies and a name sake comes to mind. Derek Davies had a long history with Singapore and with the old man in particular. Why Derek Davies did led to a chain reaction that no one could have anticipated. Its this single incident that took place at Istana Annex that led to Dr Ang Swee Chai to remain in purgatory to this day.
Old man had a long fascination with the likes of Richard Corridon, Ahmad Shah, Alex Josey, Dennis Bloodworth and of course Derek Davies. All had the same attributes - all linked to the intelligences services of the British at some time, all were his confidants, all were noted for their political insights of foes and friends, of individuals and countries, all were regular visitors to the Annex and all did not have local circle of friends. Although Bloodworth became a Singaporean much later. The last 2 also had oriental wives which indicated their commitment to the region.
0n 22 March 1976, Derek made his way to the Istana for his usual chat with the Old Man when ever he was in town. Old Man always relished his regular chat with the editor of the Far Eastern Review who had met Asian Leader such as Mao, Marcos etc and had their trust. It was a confidential meeting but as a former trained MI6 operative and a creature of habit he returned to his hotel room and taped a recording of his conversation from memory. He then asked the locally based stringer to send it to his office. That stringer however made a copy and its contents ended up with Tun Hussein Onn as substantial part of the conversation was about Malaysian leaders.
A few months later Old Man found out from his Intelligence folks and all hell broke loose. The contents that reached Hussein Onn was recognised by old man as the discussion held with Davies. On 4th Jan 1977 Ho Kwon Ping who was the only salaried journalist with FEER was picked up and his home was raided and they were looking for an extract of the conversion or a tape. However all they found out was some documentation on SAF and Ho was charged in court for having confidential document on the army and fined $7,500. The fishing expedition turned out be empty.
Intelligence had garnered that G Raman was the one who passed on the tape to Dominic Puthucheary who was banned from entering Singapore. Raman was picked up in February and he implicated a whole lot of people including the stringer who copied the tape as well as Francis Khoo. Francis escaped to the UK while his wife Dr Ang Swee Chai was picked up. Ho Kwong Ping was rearrested and detained for 2 months.
The tape was recovered and old man was shocked that it a total recall of the conversation.
3 years later all was forgotten and forgiven and Derek went back to the Istana Annex to have his regular chats with the Old Man. Until FEER wrote about the Gregory Yong being forced by old man at the Istana to accept what the Marxist conspiracy was all about.
I bet Dr Ang till today had no idea about the tape led to her situation. The stringer's citizenship was revoked and he became stateless. Raman was detained under ISA as well as a number of others. Ho Kwon Ping left to live and work in HK promising not be involved in politics again.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?245795-Derek-Davies-the-man-called-Intrepid&goto=newpost).
Mention of Lucy Davies and a name sake comes to mind. Derek Davies had a long history with Singapore and with the old man in particular. Why Derek Davies did led to a chain reaction that no one could have anticipated. Its this single incident that took place at Istana Annex that led to Dr Ang Swee Chai to remain in purgatory to this day.
Old man had a long fascination with the likes of Richard Corridon, Ahmad Shah, Alex Josey, Dennis Bloodworth and of course Derek Davies. All had the same attributes - all linked to the intelligences services of the British at some time, all were his confidants, all were noted for their political insights of foes and friends, of individuals and countries, all were regular visitors to the Annex and all did not have local circle of friends. Although Bloodworth became a Singaporean much later. The last 2 also had oriental wives which indicated their commitment to the region.
0n 22 March 1976, Derek made his way to the Istana for his usual chat with the Old Man when ever he was in town. Old Man always relished his regular chat with the editor of the Far Eastern Review who had met Asian Leader such as Mao, Marcos etc and had their trust. It was a confidential meeting but as a former trained MI6 operative and a creature of habit he returned to his hotel room and taped a recording of his conversation from memory. He then asked the locally based stringer to send it to his office. That stringer however made a copy and its contents ended up with Tun Hussein Onn as substantial part of the conversation was about Malaysian leaders.
A few months later Old Man found out from his Intelligence folks and all hell broke loose. The contents that reached Hussein Onn was recognised by old man as the discussion held with Davies. On 4th Jan 1977 Ho Kwon Ping who was the only salaried journalist with FEER was picked up and his home was raided and they were looking for an extract of the conversion or a tape. However all they found out was some documentation on SAF and Ho was charged in court for having confidential document on the army and fined $7,500. The fishing expedition turned out be empty.
Intelligence had garnered that G Raman was the one who passed on the tape to Dominic Puthucheary who was banned from entering Singapore. Raman was picked up in February and he implicated a whole lot of people including the stringer who copied the tape as well as Francis Khoo. Francis escaped to the UK while his wife Dr Ang Swee Chai was picked up. Ho Kwong Ping was rearrested and detained for 2 months.
The tape was recovered and old man was shocked that it a total recall of the conversation.
3 years later all was forgotten and forgiven and Derek went back to the Istana Annex to have his regular chats with the Old Man. Until FEER wrote about the Gregory Yong being forced by old man at the Istana to accept what the Marxist conspiracy was all about.
I bet Dr Ang till today had no idea about the tape led to her situation. The stringer's citizenship was revoked and he became stateless. Raman was detained under ISA as well as a number of others. Ho Kwon Ping left to live and work in HK promising not be involved in politics again.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?245795-Derek-Davies-the-man-called-Intrepid&goto=newpost).