CABLE TO ALEXANDER HAIG FROM NANCY OUELLETTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-110-8-31-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: December 6, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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S E C R E `.1.' EYES ONLY
TO : G ;.N RAL HAIL
FROM: NANCY OUELLETTE
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
Received following note from. other side at 6:00 p.m.,
QUOTE
1. The Chinese agrees thcel the U.S. advance party
(about 20 persons) headed by Brigadier General Haig, come
to China on January 3 .-1972, by a special plane (with a
crew of abo).it. 17 mernbers) and Wished to be informed of the
requirements related to the special plane and in other
aspects.
GJi Lil .c'egard to suuii i Lc_r c: i:ors in the schedriie of the
a(jv n1")c n ' r r~ivvi!n their vi;: it to China, the, Ctri;.ese a:L
suggests that they be discussed and decided upon ~Specifica.lly
after -their arr. ival in Peking, and by and large they can be
arranged as visualized by the U.S. side.
2. The Chinese side has decided to rent all of the
equipment of a Ground SatelliLU Terminal and a Television
Production and Transmission Center. In order to ensure more
effective construction of the house to accomrnodc..te the said
equipment, -it is hoped that the U.S. side will provide as
e=a.L?ty as possible detailed specifications, including an
inventory of all the equipment of the production and tranYmi asion
center (with two mobii_e units) ; well s a plan for dispos-i_Li.on
of equipment in the house., The. electricity used by the center
will be provided in the Chinese network o f 220 volt; -50 cycles.
If the power source must be 60 cycles, the U.S. side is requested
to bring it's own related eQu-1.p,'i .'.nt . In addition, please advise
us if there are any other regi.113'(.'..ments in connection with 1--he.
hone.
END QUOTE
Chinese side asked me to on tha to 'they were very
anxious to get reply on clc:,'ta=t.] C(1 ;:spec L:~" 7_C ;itJ o 1 and inventory
of equipment and hoped Lo L.ranc-;ni i_-L answF to Peking within
a week.
END EXI'
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IF
SECRET EYES ONLY
TO: GENERAL HAIG
FROM: NANCY OULLEM (PARIS)
I saw Chinese at eleven o'clock on 10 December and was handed
following handwritten message:
'We are very grateful if the inventory of the detailed
specifications will be provided as early as possible
so that we can transmit to Peking within one week."
I was read and given the following. typewritten message:
"Taking account of the fact that the convicts John Thomas
Downey and Richard George Fecteau, two U.S. CIA spies, after being tried,
have admitted their crimes. The department concerned of the Chinese
Government has now decided to treat them with leniency: Downey's
original sentence of life imprisonment, will be replaced by one of five
years imprisonment, beginning from December 13, 1971; Fecteau, who was
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, will be released before the
expiration of his term, and he will be set free and cross the border at
SUMI1UN on December 13, 1971.
The Chinese side hereby informs the U.S. side that Maryann
Harbert (female) and Gerald Ross McLaughlin (male), two Americans, illegally
trespassed in a yacht into China's territorial waters near the TAMKON ISLANDS
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SECREr EYES ONLY
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(ofstuary) of the Pearl River, Kwangtung province and were detained
by Chinese Civil Police on April 21, 1968. The above fact of trespassing
into Chinese territorial waters has been established through investigations
by the Chinese authorities concerned. Harbert has admitted her. mistake
and will also be released and sent across the border on December 13, 1971.
McLlaughlin resisted investigation during his detention and committed
suicide on March 7, 1969. He died. after emergency measures to save him
failed and his body was cremated. The Red Cross Society of China will
inform his family of this through the American National Red Cross."
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