THE CHINESE SPYING OFFER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400390029-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2004
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 23, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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23 APRIL 1979
The ability of the United States to monitor
the Soviet missile establishment to determine
how honestly their treaty promises are kept is
an issue of high contention in domestic
American politics, and evidently the Chinese
are aware of that. So their offer to help spy on
the Russians, usin our monitoring stations
manned by their technicians, must have
delighted Premier Deng to make. It is so
Chinese
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scornful of the Russians that the correspon-
dents in Hong Kong who reported this proposal
IT IS PROVING rather hard to keep up; firm. offer but an effort by Deng.to ruffle the
with the surprises handed us by the Chinese, Saviels -