EX-CIA AIDE SCORES U.S. FAR EAST POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200350012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 22, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Addresses Conservatives
CPYRGHT
METUCHEN - The 8,700 fam-
ilies who. dive on the island of
Quemoy, are more afraid of the
possibility of American retreat
than they are of the unrelenting
Communist military barrage, the
Middlesex County Conservative
a former specialist in psyclgologi-
cal warfare for the U. S. Office
of Strategic Service insisted that
CTiina is-4'ripe fqr lit-
Munson lashed out at proposals
for U. S. recognition of Red China
as "incredible and immoral. How
eration from the deplorable con-lcan the U. S. Be party to perma-
ditions created and tolerated by' nently enslaving the peoples of
the Communist regime. A land-, Communist China, Matsu and Que-,
ful of free men could crags the'moy7 These boo million people
control now held by the Re overlivant food, family life and freedom
&oo siria;?-TM--- ro d-wide pub the souls of millions of starving! from Mao's oppressive state cap-;
usher of anti-communist books Chinese on the mainland." %italism," he said.
,-discussed American Far-East pot
icy at a meeting of the Conserva-:
tive Club here at the home ofs
Richard F. Plechner, president.
Munson.,, a former plans officer
for ftie Central Intelligence' Agen-,
cy in the Far East, prdvided, per-
song , glimpses of what he called'
"America's endless retreat from''
international Communism in that
critical area of the globe."
The 60,000 brave citizens or.
the island of Quemoy are not;
afraid of the Communists. They!
Could have been evacuated long
before now had they cared mere-
ly to aWoid the Cpmmunist shells
which fall upon their homes,
every second day. They have;:
fought off invaSton and taken.
:saturation shellin,"~'"
Munson coflth1Uod *'none seek,
to' evacuate the isls,nd as this is
their home, their land, their life.
Their only fear is whether Amer-;.
ica.will stand firm."
The author and publisher, also-
president of
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