DR. GEORGE HATEM, ALIAS MA HAI-TEH

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00042988
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-01106
• Publication Date: February 7, 1958

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� Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
" Attention: Mr. S. X. Papi
SUBJECT: Dr. George HATEM, alias MA Haisteh
7 FEB 1958
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1. The following information, which was brought to the attention of
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this office, is forwarded for its possible interest to you.
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-- 2. Dr. George Hatem was written up in the October issue of China C
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X Reconstructs, 1956, pp. 18-21 bhlipebavIcleon, a British journalist and n
novelist. who visited Sinkiang. , In July and August 1956. The aro
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tide was entitled: "A Sinkiang Story" and contains a picture of Hatem.
Davidson says, among other things, "MA Haid.teh is a youngish man around
the age of fifty...vhose many years in Cldna have not removed a full and
*4- 1 fruity command of the American language, nor habits of hospitality and /
easr.going friendliness that make Americans, when that is ' � � .
i George Hate= threw in his lot with the cause of China's revolution When
the best of people. Like his late friend and fellow worker, Norm et1112318.
(Ici? many of the hardest years had yet to be endured...I think that he came to 11
1. . 1 China in the first place, after qualifying in the United States and a period of
post graduate studies in Syria, to specialize in tropical medicine. But �
1935 found him in Yenan, and the hard fighting years that followed found
e**..I. him as a-medical practitioner and surgeon in the ranks of the peoples
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Skin and VeneralDiseases. It was of this Institute that ILA Hai..teb. became
a member. ...Dr. MA and his colleagues stay three r four inuthsjn
Nile selected areas...Last year he and his colleagues CHEN and D . Y/N
were in the grasslands of Inner Mon alai . .and th "Wile= mountllnsof ID1
Kanuu. %This. yeas4ey are in SIn1i�nd later on they will Irkinpviong i,to--
Chinihei Province where it joins Tibet. Next year they will go into Ti
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3. Hatem, using the alias MA Haieteh, wrote an article for China
Reconstructs in the February issue 1957 entitle& "On the Sinkiang Road,"
pp. 22-25. The editorial squib about him says. "MA Habsteh (Dr. George
Hatem) is an American born physician who has worked in China for 23 year*.
He now specialises in health work among the national minority peoples."
This was followed by an article by him in the March 1957 issue of.China
Reconstructs entitle& "Clinic for the Kazakhs," pp. 12.16, and another
article in the December 1957 issue entitled "Health for the Ahsi People."
In this article Hate= says, "...In K *rang, I.. .discovered a vice..c.hairman
of the provincial government han Tirlmg, an old friend from Yemen days
ten years ago..." $7 A �
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