RED CHINA TAKES ITS TIME FREEING 3, BLASTS 'SPIES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400210015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: NSPR

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f cap wi ey were Richard
pple, bon Dixon and Capt.
a tel se er eighteen months
ez 1, !A6418 wailed i
t e o in from China
jr ortote and a sea cap-
ai o P liiig had promised,
e ins, Prompting]
Isecilit'. would denounce
aking Its, tjirie about freeing
4 N7,-Red China harped today
Freeing 3; Blasts `Spies'
~ed China lakes ItsTime ~
Ty were expected any
ss a r. a on was ea
or near death, and the Reds
were covering up his condition.'
The Peking "People's Daily,"
a voice of the Communist
regime, said the case "exposed
to the world the ginister Inten-
tions of the American aggressors
against the Chinese people."
Part of "War ]?'lot"
"United States espionage and
sabotage against' the Chinese
people Is a long premeditated
plan and an important com-
ponent of its new war plot
against China," the daily said.
"They hale Intensified their
espionage activities and' spent
lavishly to set up a chain of;
spy centers and training organ-
izations around China. Fvr years,
United States spy organizations
have tried by every means to
send large numbers of agents,
subversive elements and assas-
sins into Cliina."
It was against that backdrop
that the arrival of the two
reprters and the sea captain
was awaited.
?
The American consulate had`
representatives at the border to
meet the trains on which the
Americans. might normally be
expected. A consulate car was
assigned to bring them to the
(Peninsula Hotel, where reserva-
Itions were made for them.
im1 t e train from Canton,
n d~ye ~ the offici~Qpn-
uni$t l+qport that they were
ing " eAed" from China.
Offici~ suspected that the
ording,Yai?. the statement and
he prottagafjtla barrage g'Ainst
merican agents in China n igjlt
can the Reds would try to
ave face by calling their action
an ouster of "spies."
Would Save Face
Peking broadcast what it
alled a full indictment of eight
alleged' spies for the United
States , saying the alleged ring-
eader, Hugh Francis Redmond,
of New York, has confessed all
the charges.
The Reds already had re-
ported Mr. Redmond was sen-
tenced to life imprisonment, two
Chinese to death, and five to
prison terms. Now they said
confessions in Mr. Redmond's
handwriting" figured In the case.
A priest here who was in jail
with Mr. Redmond several
onths said the American was
n "bad shape" last spring. In-
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