HONG KONG RED DEFECTOR DOUBTS PEKING ROLE IN STRIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000100020019-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 10, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 9 (AP)
-A Chinese Communist defec-
tor from Hong Kong, Wu Shu-
tung, said today that anti-Bri-
tish violence in the colony was,
instigated by Hong Kong Com-
munists without outside direc-
tion and had failed to receive
full support from Peking.
Mr, Wu, described by!
Chinese Nationalist officials as`
the highest-ranking Communist
official to defect, said at a
news conference that the Hong
Kong leftists thought the Bri-
tish would submit to their
domination as the Portuguese,
had done in Macao.
The Nationalists announced
earlier that Mr. Wu, 61 years
old, had flown to Taipei. They
described him as a chief anti-
British agitator in the colony,
general manager of the Com-
munist-owned China Publishing
Company .there and a member
of the People's Political Con-
sultative Council in Red China's
Kwangtung Province.
However, a British official in
Hong Kong said Mr. Wu "so
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