SHOCKED - - AFTER 5 YEARS MOTHER SEES SON IN CHINESE JAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600440008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: NSPR

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Shocked-After 5 Years
CPYRGHT
Mother Sees Son
In Chinese Jail
From Cable Dispatches
Mrs. Ruth Redmond said
yesterday she, was shocked at.
the change in her son - a
prisoner of the Chinese Com-
munists-in the five years
since she last saw him.
"But he looks healthy and
apparently he eats very well,"
the 85-year-old widow from
Yonkers, told neWSmen on her
return from a 12-day visit to
Red China.
"it came as a shock, seeing
the changes in him after five
years," she said. "I suppose
if you see someone every day
you don't notice the change."
She said she was "hopeful"
for the eventual release o
her son, Hugh Francis Red-
mond Jr., a former Shanghai
tobacco importer. But she de-
clined to discuss further th
possibility of his freedom.
Mr. Redmond has serve
eleven years of a life sentenc
on Communist charges a
refused-A,a an
Biqa--day to permit, her to
spend, her son's 43d birthday
with .'him Tuesday.
Mr. Redmond said she and
her soii-were allowed to con-
erse._.Stithout interruption,
but we're not permitted to dis-
uss,the, espionage charges
against him.
She reported Communist
officials treated her courte-
ously and provided a female
interpreter who accompanied
hey gverywhere during her
10
saw no anti-American
demonstrations over the
Cuban crisis, Mrs. Redmond
said. '
CPYRGHT
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