RED CHINESE EXTEND FEELERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040161-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 161
• Publication Date: January 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Red Chinese Extend..h?elers
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WASHINGTON --Red China soundings were )reef d^d 1,v The senators also were in
r pu rag out ec ers or discus visit of more than a m,nuh ha'. 'formed that Secretary Dean
sions with the U.S. through non Hamilton made to poling latr, husk favors the proposed in-
diplomatic channels, preferably last year. -- I formal talks.
prominent businessmen with During this stay he conferred ! It was stressed, however, that
close White House ties. with Premier Cliou Eu?lai ant; the State Department heads
War-racked Southeast Asia, others.
creding with such an exchange
rea, and trade are the indicated senators, he expressed willing, of views to conic from the For-
principal subjects of the pro- Hess to ar?t a t ? d ?
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c
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elations Committee. Rusk
posed informal talks.
tze lung a "non c iplom rr?
rc '?' v?as said to deem this precau-
This profoundly significant logue" iinderwa~ hel'cEe chc I on advisable io safeguard the
overture has been conveyed by U.S. and the Mar Tze?uui rr, cl?~inistration from possible at-
Alvin Hamilton, Conservative gimc. Lock on the ground of "making
member of the Canadian Parlia- POSSIa,i.E Sr'GI(f?:SVlEN
ment and the former a ricul_ r secret deal" with the Chinese
g At the Inrcheon with the 1hr' F'eds.
tore minister who negotiated ei,,n Re);:Lions c irmn~iitcemen, In Hamilton's discussions with
his country's first huge wheat there wa :on.,icerah;r discus- Chou En-lai the latter voiced
sale to Communist China. sion of veil-knon. n Po( highly particular interest in obtaining
Hamilton spent four days : in respected per,on?lilies w h o U.S, industrial equipment and,
Washington last week confer- might be s"ughr to mtEt t~ith surplus grain and other con-
ring with top Stale Department the Red Chinese.
and other administration offi- Two inlernnli,rially known nTo',tSesn, Aiken, Hamilton ea
cials and leaders of the Senate names mentioned wer?> John pressed the opinion, "Ft will hE
Foreign, Relations Committee. McCloy, one-tinu? high iemmi.s- only a relatively short time he-
His unannounced meetings with sioncr for Ger,ru,nv, ;k,rirnr fore your country will be trail-
these key senators were ar- head of the Wot Ic! Ra ~k, dig with Communist China.
ranged by the State Depart- chairman of the board of Ch;se That's inevitable because of thr.
ment. Manhattan Bank, and head of pressure b
growing p by your busi-
KEY LEGISLATORS the Ford Foundation,'mid Gcn- ness people, particularly on the
One session was a luncheon, cr?al Alfred Gruenther, one- time West Coast."
Among those present were Sens. NATO commander. former head The Canadian leader also
T. William Fulbright, D-Ark., of the American Red Cross,' and slated his country expects to
chairman, Bourke I{ickenlooper,' director of the New York Life. continue selling large quantities
Insurance Co.
!.Iowa, ranking Republican, and of wheat to Peking for at least
Frank Church, D-Idaho, sharp According to liamilron, UN another live years.
critic of U.S. involvement' in Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
South Viet Nam, and Sen. 1'ulbright also would
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search, who took extensive
notes of the views expressed by To this ! norm Fuibright
the senators. I replied he was s n not intern.;red in
Sen. George Aiken, 'Vt., sec- personally becoming involved';
ond-ranking Republican coot- ~ in such an undertaken' The
mitteeman,, who was unable to rkansan stated he had "nn oh
he at the luncheon, later had a ?ections" to the launching of
half-hour talk with Hamilton such informal discussions, but
at the request of the Stat Deg id not want to participate i
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partment intelligence and L? j to Premier Chou J:n lai, the lat-
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Also on hand was Thomas be acceptable, He stated that
When he mnnlioncd their names wu~iuuau