ANOTHER 'CONFESSION' AMERICAN CIVILIANS IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300170016-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 3, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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A~TOTHER ` CONFESSION'
American Civilians in China,
HONGKOKG, JANUARY 2.
'Inc e Communist New China News
Agency said, to-day that, an American
civilian imprisoned- for life as a spv'
had admitted in a "written deposition"
-that his plane was shot down in North-
east China while trying to pick up an'
anent dropped there the previous month.
The 'agency issued' the. alleged deposi-?`
;,Bon in which the American: John'.
1T1'horiias Downey, said he wprked for the-t
,III ited States r b.1 Iztelligence,
:'Agency.in Japan and was in' charge of
the training of a group of spies who
were later parachuted into China. He ,
was sentenced last November, when"
Richard George Fecteau, also described:
as'a speciai 4gent of. the Central Intelli-
gence. Agency, was sent to prison 'for'j
twenty years. The two were sentenced
at the same time as the eleven Americar,
airmen whose plane was shot down near.
the Korean-Manchurian border in
January, 1953.
Downey's alleged statement said he
and Fecteau were in a C-47 plane, carry,.
ing no markings, which flew from Seoul
across the Chinese border on the night
of November 29, 1952, to pick up an
agent who had been parachuted into
N.E. China the previous' month.
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