SPYING ON RUSSIA, WITH CHINA'S HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100050035-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: June 29, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
29 June 1981
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Now coming to light is a bizarre sto-
ry of American-Chinese cooperation
against Moscow: The two countries for
months have been using two electronic
intelligence-gathering stations to moni-
tor Soviet missile tests.
The disclosure came in mid-June
while Secretary of State Alexander
Haig was in Peking negotiating new
arrangements for Chinese-American
action against Russian expansionism.
The two spy stations are in a moun-
tainous region of northwest China bor-
dering an area where the Russians
maintain two missile-test sites. They
were built secretly with equipment
supplied by the U.S. and are manned
by Chinese technicians.
Both countries share information col-
lected by the highly sophisticated mon-
itoring complex. This includes data on
the development of new Soviet mis-
siles as well as the accuracy of weapons
tested and the number of warheads
they carry. The stations also eavesdrop
on Soviet military communications
across the frontier.
It was an offer by China's political
boss, Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, on
April 20, 1979, that led to the joint
espionage enterprise against the Sovi-
ets. Deng told visiting American sena-
tors that China was willing to help the
U.S. fill the vacuum created when oust-
er of the Shah forced the shutdown of
two intelligence-gathering stations in
northern Iran earlier in 1979. Secret
negotiations by the Carter administra-
tion led to construction of
the China stations.
The project ranks
among the most sensitive
ever handled by the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
U.S. officials fear that ex-
posure of the stations
could embarrass Chinese
leaders and jeopardize
even more collaboration
between Peking and
Washington. C
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100050035-8