CALL ON YOU BY MR. WILLIAM DOWNEY FEBRUARY 4 AT 12:00 NOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-20-3-3-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 1, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM ]F OA:
FROM:
JBJECT.
Call an You by Mr. William i>ownwy
February 4 at 12:0 noon
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You are scheduled to see r. William Dovmtyr, brother of John T.
Do*-"V, the CIA employee who is still, incarcerated in Peking, February 4
at `t 12:4 neon. William Downey and his mother have been unhappy over
the fact that while you contacted Richard Fecteeau's family in December
after the Chinos* exercised clemency with respect to detained Americans,
no one from, the White Hoarse called them. (We have learned. too, that
CIA contacts were at only the working level.)
have been particularly assiduous over the years in preasiag
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for the release of Jack Downey, and have been assisted in the past half
year by Professor Jerry Cohen's efforts on behalf of his former Yale
classmate. Jerry Cohen together with the Downey* have stimulated
numerous letter-writing campaigns since last summer. The Do eyrs
have visited Jack to Peking on several occasions over the past deecade,
most recently last October, when they found him in good health and spirits.
William Downey, an articulate New York attorneys. called on me last October
just beefore our second Peking visit. He was highly skeptical that we had
been doing everything possible to secure his bro ;er'a relraaac, and both
he and hulk mother in the mast year have become increasingly critical of
our efforts.
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- We were encouraged by Chinese flexibility shown in their release
last month of Jack l wneey 's colleague. Richard Fecteeau, and Mary, -Ann
and in their reduction of Jack's sentence from life to an additional
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.... You raised the question of Jack and other
meat with Chou Ln?-lti during both of y* trips to Poking.
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-, The President intends. as he stated in his Jazvury Z TV interview
raise the issue at our P *5 interned in Indochina as well
as Americans $ prrisoned in China during his China visit. ('in the event
that at the time of the meetings that I will have in China and later an in
the cruet Union we have not made proSreis in thus -area, the subjects
will again, he raised. ") No can iders the matter e-ne of treat ira prta> +a.
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