U.S. HINTS ADMITTANCE OF CHINESE DEFCTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000100030018-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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A broad 9r'int? that, the Unit-
ed States' is -rot ,nca'xly so
t~"mystlfded'' as;;it -was report-
;, ed to be about. the d,isappear?
once of a Lijjhcrse Communist
diplomat who defected to the
U. S. Dm'basisy~,In Burundi was
Cdetectable. between the lines
of an official 'statement here
,-yesterday.
News reports from the Cen-
tral African nation on Friday
said 24year-old Tun Chi-
in', who took irefuge i'n e
Embassy there on May
:-26, had "vanished."
The U.S. reportedly had
been trying to arrange Tung':s
departure from the country
but the Burundi goverment,
under heavy preosui'e from
the Ch1acse Communists, had
attempted to" block such ' a
move. ,
American officlal?sO do Bur-
'uncil had said they had no ex-
planation fat Tung's,, .`disap- in the United States,
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pearance from his room in
the Embassy.
But yesterday a State De'
partment spokesman offered ai
deliberately mysterious half
explanation.
In answer to questions, thel
spokesman said Tung volun..
tarily entered the Embassy on
May 26 for assistance "in obi
taming political asylum in the
nited States."
"Ile was granted temporary,
asylum in the chancery buiid-~
ing, the spokesman contin 1
ucd, "to protect him from Chi-
nese Communist reprisgls. He';
has now left the Embassy byl
his own choice.
"I am not, prepared to say,,
anything more at this time,"
In diplomatic parlance, hel
statement carries the str ng'
implication that the United
have ohtalned political asylum