READY TO FIGHT OVER QUEMOY AND MATSU IKE PROMISED U.S. DEFENSE OF ISLANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100310012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: NSPR

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Ike Promised
Defense of Islari
President Eisenhower three years' ago" sent Chiank Kai-shek a personal letter that satisfied
the Chinese Nationalist leader "that the Vnited Shales would help deferd Quei~toy and?Matsu"
it the communists attacked the islands, it wet rt' ~lot?ted today._.____ _ ..
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T h ? reported episode ~, ? 8frenhowe~r and bfr. ~ huwer's election, Gen. Lucius>
highGgttta a book About- Dulles love declared publicly{CIa~ and Herbert Brownell Jr.
Srcretttry .Qf State JohA? that the United States Is crnn~ i called on Duties immediately.
ttnitced Only to defend F'or- ~ with EisenLoweCa offer of the ?
Foster Dulles, written by. moss and the nearby Peu?a~ 'State Department job in the,
John "P.. Beal, dlplomatic.dotes Islands under the 19.>~ '? Republican cabinet." Mr.
correspondent f v r Time defense treaty, But they hati?e.i puttee had "certain reserv~~
Iua seine- .. !mplied tlajs country would r e- ' Uons." Gen. Clay and Mr.
S tallate If the Reds attacked Brorinaell gonvlnced ~ him ? he: '
Mr. Beal said the commute ? Quemoy and Matsu. ?. ~ woukl be Ire!ttrt oft as Seetr
nists became convinced of this-' bir. Dulles sold March 3, ; Lary of State thttrt as txecutlve .
a degslon on use of ~ `~r~~ of the- National Se-
country's' detertrilriatloA to ! 19%
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fight for the offshore islands'! A an forces "will be made curlty CoutscU--a post ?~ir.
"and thts was the kngwledge,~r ~ ~+~ider~ himself in~:Dulles thought be rdght pre- ?.
that deterred them. This 77vs3 far. '?~ t
the 'brink' !n Formoda.",' ~ .- + . ~ ~~
t ttra 1ilYht of the.circumstances ? After Mr. Dupes took ul-I, ,
ATO:IL THBEAT ? ~ flee "he attempted to maintaln,i '
It the ttttae. .the principle of bi-partisanship ,~_ ;
'y Th? book also says' the Eis? ? ~ by conildentiaily o i f e r 1 n t
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? enhower Adminlstratlon was oT~' HIa;HLIGH
S ' Adlai Stevenson an ap? ~. ;
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' prepared to ur;e tactical Stomic
i intment to the L1N 'del
weapons ii the communists; Ir. hla opening remarks, :qtr. Po a'$a?
Beal Bald his book benefits ~ lion. Mr. Stevenson for rea? --
renewed the lighting to Korea,; sons of his own. chose to de? '
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' Mr. Beal said those who ar-: ~~ ? '
Dulles which pro-
with Mr
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sued U, S. policy toward Qugg
5' vided additional -facts about ? Israeli Artibitasador Abbs~ _ CPY
and Matsu in 1954-5
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could riot possibly have ktic,wn his cares! and inal~ht into hiss F.'ban was in
lie re Distant Secreta#y'of State Wll-
"all fire !acts" on which bA?.jofflgal actions :' Iliam l;
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Dulles and the President based ~ ported otheC ttlghjlghts of N.r: ~ when Israeli iomes attacked
their actions and cc,mmit?
rnents, IDulles foreign policy exper? Egypt. Mr. Eban hat~.~ust told .~'`"
? lances as follows: ~ bit. Roundtree 'that ,lsracl's
defensrlve in
moblliza~on "wa
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"It was not known, for ex? i
? ample, that 1?'rce Chin.!', Prra?. ? Gen. Douglas 11iacArthuc motive, not aggresei;se.';
ident Chiang Kni?shek r~r~?eived visited Mr. Dulles before the ? On un 'Oct. ZR, the
a rsonal letter fr i 111x.. Els? I ~ "
~ ~ 195`! GOP nominating convett? day before the ihvaaion, U. S.
enhower satislyingr him that lion "to urg? support of Tatt Ambasador to Israel Edward
tl,e Clr~ited fitate~ dwuid help ~1;. Lawsou reported that '~e-
dcfe~rd Quemoy a?u>' Matsu, for t the late Sen. ,Robert A. Taft
that fact has not a , ai'ed i , of Ohio) and told Dulles he spl to the governmen '1s ppr0?
1 ~ ~ tests' tt-at its ?motlill~lttion
{,Tint unlit now,' f r. Bee ,could be Secretary of State rn ? ..was met~?R11yy halve, he was
wrote. ,Taft's cabinet. Mr. Dulles hadf convinced tilt Israel intetitl;~
rvrr. rsear Baia svrr. Lunes ~Yamp" out ?ne aerraen rn~r
agreed to include Quemoy and.! Itke was his man." `-
Matsu "by nafi~e" in the Ameri?
can?Chlnese defence treaty '
signPCt Dec. 2, 1954.
(~ROEISFI) OII'f .
President F'i.4enhrnver struck
the two place names out when
lit saw the minutes of the
t,J~~." bit, Beat added. "He,
r.'it the llnitrd fitate~c needed '
.+ ,?ertalA flexibility in tts de?
T~?nsivr plans. At 'the same
ume !se aunt. C'hiung his per-
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