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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060077-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 77
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1A Implications of Mao's prolonged stay in Moscow--
Commenting on the recent statement by Chinese
Communist leader Mao Tse-tung that he expected
to remain in the USSR for "'several weeks," US.
Embassy Moscow considers it odd that Mao would
absent himself from China for an extended period
at this critical time. The Embassy cites previous
reports of the "nationalistic" flavor of Mao's leader-
ship and suggests that: (a) Mao's return to Peiping
is being delayed by failure to reach agreement in
negotiations with the USSR; and (b) strongly pro,-
Kremlin elements in the Chinese Communist Party may
be expected to take advantage of Mao's absence to
strengthen their position at the expense of the "national-
istic"' faction in the Party.
(CIA. Comment: CIA believes that Mao's return to
China may be delayed by an inability to reach h.grebment
on certain provisions of a revised Sino-Soviet treaty,
CIA has no evidence, however, that Mao is out of favor
with the Kremlin or that an anti-Mao coup is being
planned in China, )
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