RED GUARD ACCUSES ANNA STRONG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200830001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 16, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2005/08/2CIASRD0SS13~'2
16 JUN 1968
Red Guard Accuses An
By Mark Gayn the Foreign Languages Press. vide advice on the economy of
Toronto star Mao has immortalized her by reproducing the ;ist of the A senior member of the "Old the West, and especially the
HONG KONG Anna `interview in an essay called, (Guard, Epstein was given the United States. ted Louise Strong, whose admira "All Reactionaries Are Paper Mauls task
utterancesof translating
tion for Mao Tse-tung ha,.; Tigers." Mao s utterances.
made her name and face The argument that the capi. J After reports of Mrs. EP-
in-
gov
known to millions in China, is talist world only looks strong, stcin s arrest, the British for
in political trouble in Peking. but is in fact a paper monster, ernment asked Peking for in-
Arrivals from. the Chinese has become one of the cardi- formation. It is still waiting.
capital report the appearance' nal concepts of Maoism. As it Those still untouched by the
of Red Guard posters accusing took hold, so did Miss Strong's purged include a notable quar-
-the 83-year-old Communist au name attached to it. The essay tet. The most eminent of them
thor of being an "imperialist' has been reproduced in Mao's is George IIatem, of Buffalo,
agent," who has betrayed collected works, of which mil- N.Y. Known as Dr. Ma Hai-
Chairman Mao and his Cul- lions of volumes have been tell, he drifted to the Com-
tural Revolution. sold. monist northwest in the mid
Normally, Miss Strong could ... '30s, and for a while served as
rely on her 23 years of friend- This spring, though, has Mao's physician. Today he is
ship with Mao to protect her been hard on Miss Strong and engaged in fighting leprosy in
from all evil winds. To attack --I other members of the Wes? the south.
this white-haired, angelic-look- tern "Old Guard." Another is Rewi Alley, who
ing woman would appear to he .' Tiiose detained include Miss began. his China career with
unthinkable. However, the se- Strong's occasional collabora-,.the co-operative movement be.
were and sudden purge of the tor, Sidney Rittenberg. An l
for ieeand1Hatem have both been
last 90 days has decimated the American, ? Rittenberg has
small, tight band of American 'been working for the Corn- used Peking to court visit-
and British Communists who, munists for more than 20 Two !ingwoit o
like her, had liven their all to !years. others still Peking
China and Mao. are Frank Goo and Sol Adler,
In recent years he has been once well known in Washing-
Miss Strong may have had with Radio Peking. When that ton. Today, from their offices
some warning of the trouble. became a battleground be- in Academia Sinica, they pro-
Back in March, while in South tween two rival bands of.left1
China, she mailed the contents lists, he sided with the more
of her magazine, "Letter from extreme one. His militancy
China," to Peking for publica- 1 earned him a place on the
tion. When she returned to the "'rev olutionary" triumvirate
capital three weeks later, the ' running Radio Peking. But
material was still lying about when the tables were turned
unattended. on the extreme leftists, Ritten-
Miss Strong has been living berg was ousted, denounced as
in Peking in a comfortable, an "American spy," and de-
old-fashioned house in what is moted to a lesser job.
known as "The Peace Com- Also in trouble are Drook-
pound," where other foreign .'1yn-born Israel Epstein and his
fo'lowers of Mao reside. Her :;nglish wife, Lady Elsie Fair-
house has a wide veranda, . fax-Cholmondoley. Both had
where she rested in a chaise been working for Peking's
longue on hot summer eve- publishing octopus known as
nings. She took her vacations :;i
either at the Tsunghua hot -
springs in the South or at the,
sea resort of Weihaiwei.
It could thus have been a
comfortable retirement.
Miss Strong, never lost ci-
ther her zest for work or her
enthusiasm for the Chinese
Revolution, with which she
fell in love for the first time
in the mid-'20s.
In 1927, when Chiang Kui-
snck broke with the Commu-.
Q nists, Miss Strong escaped
from China with Michael Boro- ,
din and other Soviet advisers.
Her present fame, however,!
rests on an interview she had'
with Mao in 1948 in a cave in!
the Communist 'a Ve4for Release 2005/08/23 CIA-RDP88-0135OR000200830001-2
Yenan.