GEORGE BUSH TRAVEL TO CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00100R000300110037-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: May 3, 1977
• Content Type: MFR

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3 May 1977
SUBJECT: George Bush Travel to China
1. On 2 May George Bush phoned me from Houston and said
he had received a letter dated 15 April from Huang Chen refer-
ring to Bush's letter of 1 March.
2. In his letter Huang Chen said the Chinese welcomed
Bush to China, that his trip was formally approved and that he
would be the guest of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign
Affairs which would cover costs. The trip would be for three
weeks in late September 1977 and for about ten persons of Bush's
chosing. Bush could send them the list when he made up his mind.
Bush and the Chinese side could consult later on the itinerary.
Bush could also include two-three press people. The press
people should write directly to Peking.
3. Bush said he had included my name as a travelling
companion to the Chinese in his 1 March letter. He now intended
to write the Chinese and include me on the list of people he
wanted to take to China with him. (I had discussed my travel
to China with Bush earlier with both DDO and with D/DCI/NI.)
Based on this discussion I told Bush to "go ahead and include
my name." Bush expressed some concern about press play which
might result from my accompanying his group, not as it would
affect him but what the Chinese reaction and U.S. press re-
action might be. I told Bush that if the Chinese approved my
coming, they would be prepared to live with any reaction. The
real problem was with the U.S. press here in Washington. He
then seemed less concerned about the whole thing.
4. He asked me to keep this quiet because he didn't want
it leaking out before he announced it himself. I agreed. I
have only informed Mike Oksenberg of the NSC who said as far as
he was concerned I should definitely go with Bush.
Ja
National Ihtelligence Officer
for China
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