COMMENT ON(Classified) ARTICLE IN WASHINGTON POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100180056-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: November 25, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT., COMMENT ON MAXWELL'S ARTICLE IN WASHINGTON POST
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BRITISH JOURNALIST NCVVILI..E MAXWELL WROTE IN THE WASHINGTON
POST THIS MQRNIMIG THAT CHINNESE. OFFICIALS "FOLD HIM THAT` PEKI G 'r+,+J
BEEN WARNED IN APRIL, JUNE AND AUGUST OF THIS YEAR OF AN IMMINENT
SOVIET ATTACK. ACCORDING TO MAXWELL, THE CHINESE "CLEARLY IMP JE.'"
THAT THE WARNINGS CAME FROM THE US AND WERE BASED
GATHERED BY SATELLITE RECONNAISSANCE. HAS WRITTEN FAVORAE:
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OF CHINA IN THE PAST AND RECENTLY SPENT A MONTH THERE
SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIALS HAVE PUT OUT A SIMILAR LINE TO OT,,1;=:
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PREMIE! TEN G I',SIAO,_P": NG AND DAN:TSH PRIME MINISTER HAR o NG
THIS LINE. APPEARS TO BE A CHINESE ATTEMPT TO AGGRAVATE 'U "A'
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RELATI ONS WITH MOSCOW. CHINESE PROPAGANDA FOR SOME TIME HAS
DWELT ON THE INHERENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE US AND USSR AND
THE INEVITABILITY OF WAR BETWEEN THEM. THE CHINESE HAVE ALSO
STRESSED THAT THE MAIN SOVIET THREAT IS DIRECTED NOT AGAINST CHINA
BUT AT WESTERN EUROPE.
,MAXWELL IS ONE OF THE FEW OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TAKEN THE CHINSESE
AT FACE VALUE; THE DANES FOR INSTANCE, WERE PUZZLED BY TENG'S
STATEMENT THAT ''RELIABLE AMERICAN SOURCES" TOLD PEKING THAT A
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