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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000100290001-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 24, 1962
• Content Type: PREL

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FOR RELEASE IN AM' S OF MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962
FROM THE SENATE INTERNAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A young Chinese who defected to the United
States while serving as security officer of the Communist Chinese
Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, told the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee recently he hopes his action may help to release his
homeland from its oppressive masters.
"I do not renounce my country," he told the Subcommittee.
"I love my country and I love my people. However, I was deadly
against the regime that oppresses the people."
In ordering distribution of his printed testimony, Senator
James 0. Eastland, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and
of the Subcommittee, recalled that it has been said that continuous
drops of water will wear away the hardest stone and observed that
the example of this young man could well be the beginning of the
breakup of the Chinese Communist power.
The defector, Chao Fu, 27, told the Subcommittee that China's
Communist leadership Is fearful.
While he was in Stockholm, Mr. Chao said, the staff was briefed
on the Taiwan (Formosa) situation. "Outstanding in my memory," he
said,"was the fear expressed (in a communication from Peiping) that,
if Chiang Kai-shek's troops attacked at the same time as other
enemies like India, the Chinese Communists would be in a very
critical situation."
"These problems," he said, "would be intensified if the people,
because of economic difficulties resulting from adverse political
conditions, should respond to the attack by the Chiang troops."
He said there is unrest today among the people because of
their treatment by the governing classes. The unrest at this time,
he explained, is passive, expressed largely in sabotage and refusal
to work, though there are exceptions.
"There are cases in certain areas," he said, "where the
people just cannot suffer it any more and have raised up in a
small scale to rob the government granaries and even sometimes
kill the cadres."
He said he is convinced that the people will rise eventually
and overthrow the Communist regime, and expressed hope that they
will be prepared to establish a government that will "care for all
the Chinese people's welfare so that they can be free too."
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December 24, 1962
STATEMENT DY SENATOR THOMAS J. DODD (D-Cann.
Mr. Chao Fu, through his testimony before the Senate
Subcommittee on Internal Security, has rendered an important
service to the Free World.
While Mr. Chao is the first member of the Chinese Communist
diplomatic corps to defect, the hatred of the Chinese people for
the regime that oppresses them has been manifested over the
years in the mass flight of refugees to Hong Kong and Macao and
in the refusal of the great majority of the Chinese prisoners
in Korea to return home.
The special significance of Mr. Chao's defection is that
discontent and disillusionment are now also beginning to spread
in the ranks of Chinese officialdom.
The Free World must stand ready at all times to welcome
people like Mr. Chao, who have the courage to break with home
and country in order to bear witness against the tyranny of
communism.
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