GATEWAY TO CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200066-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: February 17, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS (MI)
17 February 1986
Gateway to China:
Pathway to Peking starts in the Pointes
By PATRICIA CHARGOT
Free Press Staff Writer
From the outside, it looks like any other
successful suburban dentist's office, with its colo-
nial brick facade that blends in with all the other
one-story shops and offices in Grosse Pointe
Farms.
Hardly the kind of place to arouse the interest of
the CIA and the FBI.
&f-something else is going on at 18100 Mack.
The first clue is Dr. Robert Everett, saying as he
ushers a visitor from the waiting room into a
labyrinth of offices: "The door on the right is to
dentistry. The door on the left leads to China."
Beyond the left door is where Everett, 61,
resides as president of China-U.S. Exchanges, a
non-profit charitable organization he created in
1981 after the first of his 33 trips to the People's
Republic of China.
With little fanfare but with former U.S. Ambas-
sador to China Leonard Woodcock as its senior
consultant, the group has become a powerful
intermediary in arranging professional exchanges
and attempting to foster good relations between
the United States and China.
Last week, the Michigan Department of Trans-
portation asked China-U.S. Exchanges to help
organize and promote the department's first trade
mission to Szechwan, China, in April.
Last year, Everett said, he and his 18-person
staff organized 65 delegations of U.S. professionals
- from lawyers and architects to family therapists
and interior decorators - to meet with their
counterparts in China.
This year, he said, the number will be 150, 45
more than People to People, the well-known
exchange group founded 30 years ago by Dwight
Eisenhower, sent to China last year.
Because the trips involve exchanges among
professionals, they are tax-deductible, and the
corporation's profits go into a scholarship fund for
Americans who study in China and Chinese in the
United States.
"You wouldn't believe how exciting this is,"
said Everett. "Our growth has been so phenom-
enal."
"WE HAVE contacts in China like nobody else
has," he said. "We have been accepted there
because of our scholarship grants and because of
Leonard Woodcock being our senior consultant,
because of his image and respect."
Everett also has ties to the CIA and FBI.
Uecause China-U.S. Exchanges sponsors some
Chinese delegations in the United States and
supports studies here with grants. the CIA de-
>?riefs me about every six months, Everett said.
"They just come in and ask me about people
who are coming here and record their names. The
FBI comes in, too - they come in more frequently
- they like to know who they are."
Chi Xiong, 31, and Wang Dianyi, 28, for
instance, are studying in the United States on one-
year, $25,000 China-U.S. Exchanges grants.
Wang, a graduate of Canton Foreign Language
Institute, is a first-year law student at Northwest-
ern University in Illinois. The American Bar
Association arranged for her to study here after she
acted as an interpreter for their Board of Governors
meeting with the Ministry of Justice in Peking in
1984, arranged by China-U.S. Exchanges. The
association plans to pay for the rest of Wang's
education when her grant runs out.
Chi, whose career plans were thwarted by the
Cultural Revolution, is a freshman at St. Mary's
College of California in Moraga, Calif.. majoring in
business administration.
Free Press Photo by WILLIAM ARCHIE
Dr. Robert Everett: "We have contacts in
China like nobody else has."
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