PRESS ITEM FOR THE DCI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400100006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 6, 2000
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 2005/08M1 RPf~JE]0415R0004Q~V
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a small desk.
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Cc the food sent m from Lynn by is parents in the twice_a-month
-povnd packages he was allowed to receive.
The follo~In day, accompanied by four guards, Fecteau left
Pel~irag by train for Canton, where he was kept overnight in a
hotel room
The follow day his guards took him by train to the border
1 and. turned h m loose to walk across a bridge into Hong Bong
ill freedom.
HOUSTON I didn't have a dime in my pocket and only identification
we a Chinese vaccination certificate, f Pee said.
'ecteau found a British immigration officer who called the American
consulate Moments after he had arrived at the imm$ ration office,
Mary Ann larbert, 22 of Palo Alto, Calif . walked. in.
He bad seen her earlier at the Canton railroad station, bu
had no idea who she was . Miss Harbert had been imprisoned 3?
gears earlier when a yacht in which she was sailing was seized
'by the Chinese
A helicopter coked up the pair at the border station and took
them to a military base where a hospital plane was sent to fbrry,
them home.
Peoteau @e~d that there were a venal breaks, in h ygax a of
solitary confinement, He said the Chinese apparently warp trying
to indoatrinate_ him with 41d lew?e of- their' progress.
Iri 19 be"._and boiney were kcn on a four_&ay tour of factories,
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a" End the ' pIacOe Sri $~ei 1'bking area, and on thelt
to prison were asked to write a report on what they had aeon.
Five m,?thl~,.-.la . C',_tho were taken on a more extended tour which
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: .. in the nor .eas section oa China, ineiudtn t a - seaport ot` Shanghai.
During that tour the were taken to the theater twice, and had
viaits to parks and fairs, he said.
recteau said he was told there would be more tours, but there
wren't.
Pooteau and Downey were captured in 19`2 when their plane
was shot down. A military tribunal sentenced him to 20 years
and Downey, who piloted the plane, to life
The Chinese claimed the two were spies eng-ag0d In dropping Tationalld
gperativea into China, The Unlied State has repeatedly denied
the charges.
Approved For Release 2005/06/06 CIA-RDP74B00415R000400100006-7
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