PRESS GUIDANCE ON INTENDED CHINESE RE-DEFECTION CASE: LIAO HO-SHU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-19-6-24-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: January 11, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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January 11, 1972
DOS, NSS, Review
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FROM:
SUBJECTT
MEMORANDUM Vas GENERAL HMG
TUROUG s COLONEL, KENNEDY
JOIN A. FROZB.E, JR.
Press Guidance on Intended Chinese
It*-defection Case UAO No-shu
State and CIA. are asking our pros s guidance in the case of LIAO Trio- shu,
the former Charge of the PRC Embassy in the Vague who defected ta late
1969. H. has been in this country since. but recently has become dis-
satisfied with life here and wrote the President . eceeriber 2l that he wanted
to return to China. State picked tha matter up, and. coordinating with CL.,
ascertained from LIAO that indeed wmats to return but has not been able
to get a positive response from PRC alaathorttites that they will have him back.
(He told state and CIA that he had made contact with the PRC U. N. delegation,
but was unable to got 1a clear response from them;.) State and CIA are now
cenaeid eriaag this aspect of the matter.
At the State noon press briefing yesterday, press spokesman Bray, after
denying a report attributed to a Reverend Paul Lindstrom that 59 U. S. POW s
had been aaa ved from Laos to Chiala., was asked by the Chicago Tribune
correspondent whether Lindetroxn'as suggestion that the U.,139 had agreed to
return to Chins "'aa Chinese defector at the ti or in connection with the
President's announcement of his trip to Poking" was true. No reference was
made to L &o or any other particular Chinese defeetor.
State and QA are agreed on the following response, which Bray, not having
ewe able to offer it at today's noon press briefing, would telephone to the
Chicago Tribune correspondent this afternoon. (This would give less attention
to it than if announced at the tall press briefing.)
"I would call :. . your attention the eta ding USG policy on defectors
a and redefeectorasa If an individual who has been granted porratesion to cow*
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to our country, and. is therefore legally here and In good standing, win
to repatriate of his own free will. the V SG will respect his wishes and will
Permit him to de so, We will not forcibly deport any such legally a+ pitted
in vidual.
" regal the suggested connection between a Chinese defector and
the President's coming visit to the i'eople' s,+oeic of China. I ld
emph"Is,, as we have said on many occasions, that *either we nor the PRC
authorities have asked nor agreed to any pre_co"it oas in co**ecttan with the
President's China visit. 1`
`l t approve the recommended press gu daaac. as stated above.
Approve
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aappr ive
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