MANY AMERICANS IN CHINA ARE LIKELY TO STAY THERE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300170014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: June 2, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
Many Americans in. China
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By KEYS BEECH
Chicago Daily News Foreign Service
would ,jump leeclt
at the chance to leave but are
held prisoners or hostages.
About 30 are working for the
Communists or are so deeply
Involved with them that they,
,
cannot or dare not come
pursues it s
"get soft"
policy.
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Most of
be expected.
as Peiping
pilots whose
release c a n
so 'air fore
RELEASE of the four Amer
can pilots leaves about 10
~s
Americans still in Commu
baum, the, first, -American'
granted permission to .visit
Peiping after the Communists
occupied glianghalf Both are
in welfare work.
Two more . are Donald
Kemp, former fr -~la ice pho-
tographer, and W. I1 Sley, an-
other delegate _ to he 1952
peace conference.,-
Three American V_o m en
married to Chinese:=titiZens
are reported teaching in
Communist universities.
Erwin Engst and :his wife,
another delegate,$o the Asian
peace _conferenCts, are man-
aging F: livestock experimen-
tal center in noTthwest
China. Sidney; Shapiro, a
young Shanghai' lawyer, is
fist China.
Seven -of,
them are al-,
a geogr.aphicai impossibilit'
Fecteau mod: Downey were
shot down"-:' over Manchuria
on Nov. 29, 1952. According
to the U:Si:'_ air- force, they
were passer gers on a routine
flight from`Sp5f to Tok~'o,
lege wrestler. Both were iden?
tified by 'Peiping 44 CIA
Two were sentenced to',
long prisoh terms as spies.
They are t~ebrge,Yecteau, 28~.
u d John honnas Downey,
25, husky Yalerhan and col
married to a prominent Com-
munist artist and Living in
Peiping. : "'
The best-known American
still in.' China is George
Haterri,. formerly Mao' Tse-
tung's personal physician.
Married to a Chinese, Hatem
:has lived with the Com-
But he reportedly still 'cher-
ishes a, long-expired Ameri-
"AV_7. AST 2t Americans
are known ta'be in jail aljd
jour others presumed in Arts-
on or under h8use arrest,
Five of these are woi?ie ,.
Your have- died since 7.951 as
P. result of mistreatment in
prison.
Eleven Americans are by
free choice working for the
Communists or kemi-official
agencies. Twenty others
one died.- ar;e the GIs who
trefused repatriation in Korea
and are "working and studying" somewhere in China.
One American, Hugh Fran-
cis Redmond, ,a Shanghai
businessman, 'was sentenced
to life imprisonment on es-
pionage charges when he re-
mained these: after the Com-
munist takeover.
AMONG Americans willing-
lyworking for. the Commu-
nists are Talitha Gerlach,- a
pproj=P M`'Wj4-RDP75-00001 R000300
ago as it 'delegate" to flip
Asian.- Pacific peace confer-
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