PRESS GUIDANCE ON INTENDED CHINESE REDEFECTOR: LIAO HO-SHU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-19-6-31-0
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: January 12, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
ARUM:
SUBJECT:
1969. He has been in this country since, but recently has, become die- .
ti f' d 'th life bore and wrote the President December Zi that he wanted
'ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR.
JOHN H. HOL1)RJDGE6KW/
Press G idance on.Intended. Chinese
.Redefector; LMO Ho-.shu
State. and CIA have asked our press guidance on the case of LIAO Ho-shu,
the farrn$r Charge of the PRC Ezx~.bassy In the Hague who defected in late
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to return- to China. State picked the rnatter.up, and, coordinating with CIA,
ascertained from LIAO that he indeed wants to return but has not been able
to get a positive "response from PRC authorities that they will have him back.
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~,; kh S t b 'ra?in este~-day press spokesman Bray, after
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RECOMMEI~'DATIQN:
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That you approve the press guidance at Tab A.
DOS, NSS, Review
Completed.
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considering this aspect of the matter.
but was unable to get a clear response from them. J State and C3A are no
(He told Stag: and CIA that he had made contact with Lhe P w .
made to Liao or any other particular Chinese defector. Bray took a qu s
President's announcement of his- trip to Peking" was true.. No reference was
th a tion
e %7 xaoc-.1 press 1. ; y f
t a
denying -a report attributed. to a Reverend Paul Lindstrom that 59 U. S. POW'
had been moved from Laos to China, was asked by the-Chicago Tribune
correspondent whether Lindstrom's suggestion that the U. S. had agreed to!
'return to China "a Chinese defector at the time or .in connection with the
if asked about Liao .specifically. This has been agreed to by State an ?
We have approved the press guidance at Tab B to respond to the Chicag.0
Tribune's question. At Tab A is standby press guidance which State would use
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LIAO Ho- shu, who, defected in 1968 from the Embassy of the
People's Republik of China at the Hague and carne to the United States, '-
has now informed us of his desire to return to China, We understand
.that he'has also informed the Government of the PRC that he wishes- to
I call to your attention the standing V.S. Government policy on
defost:oxs and re-defectors:
If an individual who has been granted permission to come to our country,
and is therefore legally here and in good standing, wishes to. repatriate.
f his own free will, the U.S. Government will. respect his wishes and
will permit him ,to do so. We will not forcibly deport: or. detain any. such
-legally admitted individual.
.. A5 regards any suggestion of a connection between a Chinese defector
and the President's coming visit to the People' s Republic of China,
size, as we have said on many occasions, that neither we nor the
;PRC authorities have asked or agreed to any pre-conditions'in connection
with ' the President's China visit.
The timing of Mr. Liao' a request via s
entirely his own. lie has assured us that his decision-is the result of
careful consideration, and that he is fully. aware' of the possible personal
consequences of repatriation,
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We have taken,' and will. continue to take every precaution to insure
that, if Mr., Liao does in fact go back to the PRC,' he does so entirely
of his own free will. We have not been in touch with the Government of
the PRC nor has. the PRC been in to tch with us on this case. Mr. Liao
is free to leave the United States whenever he chooses. His entry into
e= PRC would be entirely his own business. it is a matter between
r; Liao and the Government .of the People'. s Republic of China
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assure you that. we have had no c oiSlin,nican on or ag,z a GiLL%;AW w..w& ......
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Y don't know what gives rise to your :question, But I can categorically
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wishes and will permit l m to ao so. we WiL1. aa,vV, lVLVaway ..4~.... - -
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4-. ~.nnsMt~a *ea n?F Y14ix nwm .frAA vAil.. the U. S, Government will respect his
I Call to your 'attention the sL?andir g U. S. Government policy on defectors
and ro-defectors: i an individual who has been granted permissioA to come;'
any such legally admitted individual.
caae I ,wash to en1phaasi ze that, as we have said on many occasions,
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neither we nor the PRC authorities have asked or agreed to any pre-conditions
in connection with the President's China visit.
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