BROTHER TO VISIT BISHOP WALSH IN RED CHINA JAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200410038-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: July 21, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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imprisoned in ommuoIst.
China.
Bishop Walsh, 69, was aen-~' >
tensed March. 16 on ,a :Chars
of conspiring to overthrow the
Comrtipnist government 'he
charge and sentence`.: by' a
Shanghai-' People's Court 'wete
denounced as falae-jljy re .
,y of state'. ChristiianJ Hel ter.1
The bishop's, broth hr`. a 10-
year old former judge sod ~#r
torncy general of .Marylatl$ i ,
h@ will lease Suii~lty for!
Hong! Kong with his ,wife
lie said arrangements for thei ''.
week visit beginning Aug.
were made through theCh.inesp,
Red Cross with the eQo~peratiop
ef the At erican Itel'cinss
Bishop Walsh, a' natty# M.e~
Cumberland, is a former Y ++
ther-General of the Maryl~cgpl}
Order of Priests i in fal i
1Ie. vJlent to' na.th
N. Y.
1918 and' while still i 9 to
l became the first American el
vated to Rishop in Chins.
remained there until the,19205
and returned .in 1948, .
Walsh and NllrYIN. 1)e ow
of New Britain,
Ivcd passports valid for tr1tV.J
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Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CI-RDP75-00149R000200410038-7