CHOU EN-LAI MISSES MEETING WITH MAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100090002-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 4, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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DATE: 4 SEPTEMBER1974
EN-LAI MISSES MEETING WITH MAO
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CHOU EN-LAI WAS NOT PRESENT AT.MAO'S MEETING WITH TOGOLESE
PRESIDENT EYADEMA ON SEPTEMBER 4--THE FIRST TIME'THE PREMIER
HAS EVER MISSED A MEETING BETWEEN MAO AND A VISITING HEAD OF
STATE. VICE-PREMIER TENG HSIAO-PING FILLED IN FOR CHOU. ON
,TWO OCCASIONS, ONE OF THEM ON MAY 30, CHOU WAS NOT PRESENT AT MEETIN
BETWEEN MAO AND VISITING CHINESE--AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.
THERE HAVE BEEN PERSISTENT RUMORS DURING THE.LAST,MONTH THAT
'CHOU IS BACK IN THE HOSPITAL, SOME OF. THEM SOURCED TO-TENG. THE
TREATMENT OF CHOU'S ILLNESS BY CHINESE MEDIA DURING THE CURRENT
=VISIT OF THE TOGOLE~E PRESIDENT HAS BEEN UNUSUAL. LAST JUNE-THE
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MEDIA ADMITTED FRANKLY THAT THE PREMIER HAD HEALTH PROBLEMS, AND
DID NOT HIDE THE FACT OF CHOU'S HOSPITALIZATION DURI-NG THE VISIT OF
SEEIATOR HENRY JACKSON IN JULY. THIS TIME, HOWEVER, REFERENCES'TO
CHOU':~ ILLNESS IN A SPEECH BY THE fOGOLESE PRESIDENT WERE EXCISED
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