TO SEND NEWSMEN TO CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200330019-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 2, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

APR 2 1959
d For Release 1999/09/07: CIA-RDP75-00j00
Letters to The Times
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iTo Tas EDlros oe THS.Nvw YokK TIM csr
For a decade it has not been pos?
sable for American newsmen to
enter mainland Chins to observe
and report to the American public.
This constitutes a violation of our
fundamental right to be informed
about an entire quarter of the
world's population. It also amounts
to denying ourselves information
that may prove vital to our own
security.
iWe believe that the - continued
dental-to American newspaper men
of the ' right to go to Communist
China U a shocking breach of our
traditional faith in a free press as
well as a grave disservice to the
American people.
We call upon American news pub-
lishers to defend the freedom of the
press by instating that American
newsmen be permitted to travel to
mainland Chins. We urge the Amer-
loan people and the Congress to ask
tee a reversal of the prohibitory
policy of our Government. This
would mean, of course, that the
State Department would recipro-
cally permit Chinese newsmen to
enter the United States.
We have sufficient confidence in
the American system to believe that
if the Communist Chinese. through
legal access, learn more about our
country, this will be to our advan-
tage rather than disadvantage.
HENRY CABOT, liF:RBE:uT GEZORK,
ROLAND 13. GITTELSOHN, FRAN-
cis G. GOODALF. JOHN HARR[-
MAN, JOHN WlSIXY LORD, Louis
M. LYONP, Al 1x MILLIKAN, WAL-
TER G. MuELDER, JOHN B. PAINr,,'
Jr., .F.DWY 0. REISCHAUER, As-
THUa M. E(IiU.Eti1NGER Jr., GREG-
ORY SIHITI1.
Csrabtldgc, M Lt. March 30, 1959.
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