LEADER OF CHINESE ADVANCE PARTY AT THE UN IDENTIFIED AS AN INTELLIGENCE AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300340061-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: November 11, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

THE LTIdDON TI14ES STATINTL
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ea der, Chn~s~ ': h ok .e party at the
identified as.'an intelligence nt
Washington, Nov 10.-The while ostensibly serving "as . a dent who emerged as - Foreign
head of the advance party for journalist for th
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ina Minister,
Peking's delegation to the United news agency. Since .its inception, the news.
Nations has been idend:ified as a' He was expelled from India in agency, like the Soviet agency
leading Chinese; ? intelligence 1960 and from Mauritius in Tass, has been considered by
agent. 1964.? He has also been active in United States intelligence to be
United States officials ex- Nepal and Switzerland, where he an occasional front for espion-
attended the 1961 Geneva con-. age activities, particularly in
pressed surprise and concern that ference on Laos.. . " countries where Peking
Mr Kao Liang was selected for b has no
the delicate assignment o? His principal assignment prior formal diplomatic relations.
the elound work ent f laying g to the United Nations was aS" Chian _ Kuan-~hua, Deputy
chief African correspondent : for Foreig7 Minister and head of
first, diplomatic mission in the. the news agency. Taking ? "up the official delegation to the
United States. )'esidence 'in 'Dar'es Salaam, the United Nations, started as a New
Mr Kao led the party ,of six capital of Tanzania, in 1961, Mr China .news agency correspond-
Chinese who arrived paid his Kao travelled regularly through- ent in Hongkong before moving
York on Monda? and out Africa. at the high point 'of un to the diplomatic corps.-
first visit to the United Nations Peking's operations on the con- Chicago Sun-Times..
yesterday with two colleagues. tinent. Patrick Bro
He is making preliminary He was said to have lived gan writes from
Paris deleg to
arrangements, for the official lavishly, a large the :The Nation arriv don here
delegation that left Peking yes- house ' and car and entertaining this United aonns arrived hero
terday and is due in New York ' morning on their way to
beyond the
tomorrow, means of even the New York. They were spending
highest-paid European and
The United States, the Soviet American journalists. aondd gwht in the embassy in Paris
Union and other .major owers will set out again tomorrows
1 p Mr Kao c= as also said to have They were met by Mr l-Luang
have long used diplomatic cover been the prime mover in the pro- Hua, former Chinese ambas-
for -their intelligence agents. Last Peking coup in Zanzibar in 1964, sador in Ottawa. who had flown
month, for example, the Central passing out money and arms to in ? from Montreal earlier this
Intelligence Agency leaked the the insurgents, including Shaikh morning. He is to be China's
accusation that Mr Vladimir Abdul Rahman Muhammad permanent representative to the
P
avlichenko, director of external (Shaikh Babu), a former New United Nations and will occupy f the
inf
United Nao madopublic inform lion China news agency correspon- her seat on the Security Council.
office, is a " veteran. officer of
the KGB. the Soviet intelligence
agency.
United States intelligence
mah,tains a.. thick 'Tile- on, Mr
Kao. He is accused of conduct-
ing extensive intelligence opera-
tidns in Asia. Europe and Africa
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