From the minutes of the Internal Security Council meeting on 30th August 1961 (CO 1030/1164), Lord Selkirk noted that no link had been established between the subjects under investigation and the source of the communist directive.
Lee Kuan Yew in the same meeting went on to propose that Federation citizens who opposed merger should be banished.
In the subsequent ISC meeting on 6th October 1961, federation citizens who opposed merger put forward were named – James and Dominic Puthucheary.
