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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400470022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 16, 1960
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R0004004
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
UPI-89A
(CHINA)
SEPTEMBER 16, 1960
TAIPEI--OPPOSITION LEADER LEI CHEN, WHO WAS ARRESTED SEPT. 4 ON CHARGES
OF SEDITION, ALSO MAY BE CHARGED WITH AIDING A COMMUNIST SPY, GOVERNMENT
SOURCES SAID TODAY.
THEY RECALLED PRESIDENT CHIANG KAI-SHEK'U REMARK TO NEWSMEN TUESDAY THAT
LEI HAD KNOWINGLY PROVIDED "COVER" FOR AN AGENT FROM RED CHINA.
TAIPEI'S EX'MAYOR HENRY KAO, LIKE LEI A LEADER OF THE RECENTLY-ORGANIZED
DEMOCRATIC (OPPOSITION) PARTY, SAID THE SEDITION SUSPECT WOULD BE EXPELLED FROM
THE PARTY IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN PRODUCE CONVINCING PROOF THAT HE WAS LINKED
WITH COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE."
WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF CARRYING OUT POLITICAL SUBVERSION," KAO SAID
"WE CUPPORT THE GOVERNMEiNT, AND WILL OPPOSE ANY INTER-NATIONAL PLOT TO DIVIDE
THE REPUBLIC OF (NATIONALIST CHINA."
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER LI WAN-CHU,ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY,
SAID IT HAS NO INTENTION OF USING THE LEI CASE AS A "WEAPON FOR POLITICAL
STRUGGLE."
9/16--JD107PED
Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000400470022-6