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• Publication Date: February 7, 1958
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Dulles
You said you wanted to take this
along to the next OCB meeting so
you could speak to Bob Anderson
about it.
16 Dec 57
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10-101
FORM 1VI WHICH MAY BE USED.
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UNDER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON
January 10, 1958
Dear Allen:
For your information, I enclose a report
given to me regarding possible importation of
a giant panda. This would appear to close the
matter for the present unless you have some
further suggestions.
Best regards,
Fred C. Scribner, Jr.
Under Secretary of the Treasury
Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
2430 E Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
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FAC Memo No. 2L 00
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NIEMORMTDUM
Re: Importation of Giant Panda in behalf of
All importations of goods originating in or passing through Communist
China are prohibited by the Foreign Assets Control Regulations. The
Regulations were issued pursuant to a determination of the National Security
Council in 1950 at the time the Communist Chinese intervened in Korea.
The primary purpose of these Regulations is to prevent Communist China
from gaining any advantage through financial or commercial transactions ai-z
the United States, whether direct or indirect. The major impact cf the
Regulations has probably been in preventing the sale of Communist Chinese
merchandise to this country.
With the full concurrence of the Department of State, the Fe ati )r s
have been very strictly administered ever since their adoption. Im:>orters
of merchandise from Communist China have been consistently denied licenses
except where some significant security or comparable national interest of
the United States was to be served. At one time licenses were gran.-red for
the importation of certain strategic commodities but no such licenses have
been issued since 1952. Numerous efforts have been made to sell such
merchandise here through third countries and have been prevented only by
the adoption of elaborate precautions. The fact that the Conmrunist Chinese
have already received funds or property from a third country in a particola:c
transaction in payment for their goods and will therefore not benefit -"`l ther
from the particular importation into the United States is, of course, no
reason for the United States to authorize the importation. ffie adoption of
a policy of allowing imports in such cases would frustrate the purposes of ,he
Control by enabling the Communist Chinese to receive value in third country=ls
for their indirect exports to the United States market.
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For these reasons, the granting of a license for the importation of a
giant panda would constitute a serious departure from the basic policies
underlying the Foreign Assets Control. Accordingly, it is not beli!ved tha
a license should be granted unless there is some very strong national security
interest for doing so. The request in 1956 in behalf of for a STAT
license to import a panda was denied only after careful consideration by the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Foreign Assets Control Iia,~,ers.
In addition to the formal letter advising agent of this conclusion, STAT
there was considerable informal discussion with e agent in which she pos:'>ion
of the Treasury was made clear in detail.
It should also be kept in mind that the importation of a giant panda
inevitably would receive a great deal of publicity and would lead to the
necessity of a public explanation of the basis for the action.
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NEW-YORK TIMES
as Bounc `anda in Red 'hina
4U. S. as Trade Ris
$y MURAT SCIIUMACH
The giant panda has" been pointments secretary to Pre.!-
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.trapped in the "cold wa of
dlom~cy and has been denied
to tize'O 1ted States.
I ongh n`o zoo In this country
has a giant ganda, the clown of
the animal world has been re-
fused, entry because it is a resi-
dent of Commums 'China.
As of "last night,"the State
Department, despite pleas from
leadin zoos for clemency, was
arguing that to admit the young
pan a-the -darling of animal
lovers and toy-makers-would
violate the law forbidding trade"
with Communist China.
But one unhappy zoo official
redalXed privately that early
this year a pair of dogs from
Chinese-controlled Tibet had
been admitted by way of Nepal,
India and London. The dogs
were for Thomas E.,Stephens, a
former special ' counsel and ap-
Though there is some doubt
whether the panda in queuttoa
was born in S2;echuan Provinaei,
China, or In Tibet, there seem(
to be no question that it Is noel'
In Peiping-and for sale to the
highest bidder.
Should the animal reach the!
United States, It seems likelI;
that Its price at least would
equal the highest ever paid foe
an animal by a zoo.
Frederik J. Zeehandelaar, ad
animal dealer of New Roohell%
N. Y., who says his agent hog
the panda, declared yesterday
that one zoo had offered $26,000
for the white-faced charactee
with the smoky eye-rings.
In recent years the highest
price - paid for an animal was
Continued on rage 31, Oolasrm Q
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1958.
VICTIM OF COLD WAR:
The giant panda-this one
Is a baby-has been de-
nied entry to the U. S. be-
cause of Communist ties.
U. S. BARS PAPA
AS HE LAP TO REDS
Continue' From f ag- 1
$25,000 for a pair o, white
rhinoceroses, hought ?` o; he St.
Louis Zoo.
Among ti-?3 zoos ha- have
tried to get he pan -4i .P the
Bro+rx Zoo t,h Kfield
Zoo in China o. T1^r ts, , Zoo,
though not c -.-timistl cling-
ing to a hove that State
Department uav that
the admissic . would im be a
victory for tnternat-ra. com-
munism.
At the Chi =.go Zrx the direc-1 .
tor, Robert :ean, ss ,d had!
given up. This zoo a .lirh ed in1
1931 the fir=i ,viartt pA.. ,da in
this country. The Br?r>,ix ,o has
also had gip. it pane s. ne of
which. Pand:' :a. w arr a r ar of
the New Yore Wori is i air in
1939.
"I wish," aid Mr. 8r; i sor-
rowfully, "we could ret. a giant
panda, regardless. of : mot
With the -tate I"-pa. rment
apparently ' )durate. JVI~ Zee-
handelaar sa i he might ,=11 the
animal to the Frankfurt oo In
Germany.
Mir. Zeehandelaar Sa.1 his
agent, an Austrian, hadotaained
the- giant ppaanda in 1'eip ng in
exchange for some otppopota-
muses, rhinoc(roses a:Et-gi= affes.
Apart from its rarity uatside
themountaine us area., of outh-
west China and eastern Tibet,
the giant pt, nda's v-due is its
showmanship, In a+ npe , rance
ant behavior this mere er of
the raccoon family is a born
comic. With white body, black
legs and a clown face, it is re-
sponsive to a idience4 an- par-
ticaularly bebbbved b% chlidren.
At maturit it readies about
six feet, weighing , bot. 200
pounds. Though it teed., irainly
on bamboo shaots in life i.arest-
ed areas of it ; birth, the :)anda
has done well in zoo.- on ve96-
tables, cereal cod ?t?, r c- 1 and
milk-
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st- of'the nited States` has been em-
t to exclude a giant panda from this country
ccat, 5 tY anj,inhau ant of Ina. rresu auiy
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as couldt cafe less abo
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ab u place of residence; iut und
the Stae Department' he
1 ' o by
tiles as
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zo,9s whichthave been bidding
wi at& a panda is-or o pretend, in the
e', omii'i n st government in Peking, that he
' doesn't exist. Thus is sanctity preserve.
$u i , r a 11 '1 Perhaps this` sort of panda=ing
tQ rigidity is what is needed to demonstrate the
Part of the same policy as the reported pro-
,. F- , Sh
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e presse ducks exported from there came from
eplQQgicalYy uncontaminated eggs. The effect is
,wade: the United States a laugning stocK witn-
sly with the publication of a thought-
,Lu nequ
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1"s udy by the ltore gn Policy Association en-
.tled 'houtd the U. S. Change 'ts China Policy?
;u t cg Se Ii man a former law partner of sec-
that the
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terms
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any Dulles, argues i
icy should be changed; whereas' Prof. Richard
e% 'ol the University of South Carolina
W,1
,
he familiar arguments That it should not.
]~pe is _
ersUasive.
WASHINGTON POST
8 May 58
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S o 'wrl` -commun;sm-Ths arg -_
I w; is patently not going back t~o the
~ that fieCommunist overnr-ient?in` Ire-
1g Is un iTie to collapse, that American policy
ire lions for the neutral countries of Asia
of preserving tihe independence of Taiwan is to'
endorse, t as an independent nation.
Tkle ro%gest argument against a change fn"
American policy, wfiicn presumably would begin
-Wn-k
oml iiixiast China in the lYnited 1` ations, is that'
'here is`sometl irig to this,'but it is worth inquir
rig whether the independent 'nations of Southeast"
A51a a~tpall are accordingly buttressed agamat
vrstn ?ark of China's attraction is the attrae-`
"on of revolutionary institutions in Asia; add`
nericarl policy, which inhibits full information
out what is happening in China, appears to man y
td be persecution. 11 ~ A, .ar itttation holds for the problem of tl e'
fiver e 't iihesb in Southeast'Asia. nquestionably-
some of 'the overseas Chinese are entrapped by'
Peking; but it is a fiction to think that encourage-
ment for them to look toward the Kuomintang on`
Taiwan is' a realistic alternative. 'ne only funds ,
eri al,splution to the problem of the overseas Chi'
nase`is, to encourage efforts toward local assimita.
tion with equals rights in the countries where they
'reside.
Basically what Mr. Seligman urge's is appficationi
of the 9isnamed two-China policy-the'seating of
Comtxlunist China in the U. N. in a packs a ar M.
ngment that would include a lorean political
settlement, release of American prisoners and 'a
separate U. N. seat for Taiwan. The order of prior
ity is open to debate, but the fundamental thesls-
that there is only one China, on the mainland,
s~hatdly arguable in logic.? Mr. Seligman properly
stresses the importance of an independent Taiwan;
surely, however, if this is ' important there 'mu"st'
be more to keep it alive than the ~retense that tfie-
regime in Taipei represents the mainland.
have no thought that the Chinese Commu_-
such, a proposition at the present fime even if it-
were offered to them. That is not the point. The-
American policy of total exclusion in~'the U.'N. I
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tinder constant erosion; and the American policy
fo^::;
?diffic
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_a _..-,- ' not _
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nly
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thLs otintry's friends, but also may well make the
ey` really are. F'urthermore, as' Mr. Seligman-
en 11 phasizes, if ever there `is to be an effective
arlnk control jr inspection arrangement, it will
sQr,, American ' Ch Nna pole is a Lo'sing`
sition. A gradual change, so as to make trade
~p7r C 'Qns con orm' to those 'orithe remainder of
q uis bloc and so as to make possible
t
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while rot.ectiit ,- wfe separa
f ITT
nee a a wari.`woui? place tie > nite f States
BlYN e"tie poignant case of the State"Tie-'
rf i;n versus the Wanda will serve "to dramatize`
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