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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000100020003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: TRANS

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0740 3 LEAD DEFECTOR (NO PICKUP OF NOR 221)i
BY HUMPAIREY ILAN LOO
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, Ics ;!-(REUTERS) A SENIOR CHINESE
DIPLOMAT WHO FLED HIS POST HERE 10 PAYS AGO STILL S IN HOLLAND
BUT HAS NOT ASKED FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, A JUSTICE INISTRY
SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.
OBSERVERS SAID THE FACT THAT LIAO 1.10.111114 ACTING CHARGE
DAFFAIRECIOR THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC HER(, HAS HOT REQUESTED
ASYLUM APPEARS TO INDICATE HE DOES NOT FEEL SAFE IN HOLLAND AND
PLANS TO FIND A BETTER HIDEOUT IN ANOTHER WESTERN COUNTRY.
LIAO FLED HIS POST HERE IN THE EARLY HOURS OF JAM 24 ANO HAS
BEEN KEPT INCOMMUNICADO EVER SINCE,
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN, WHO SAID LIAO WAS BEING
TREATED AS AN ORDINARY POLITICAL REFUGEE, WAS ANSWERING QUESTIONS
ABOUT A FLURRY OF RUMORS REGARDING THE CHINESE DEFECTOR.
ONE RUMOR WAS THAT THE DIPLOMAT HAD BEEN TAKEN TO BONN FOR
INTERROGRATION BY THE U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (C.I.A.)
ANOTHER OFFICIAL WAS ASKED ABOUT REPOTS THAT LIAO HAD BEEN MOVED
FIRST TO C.I.A. HEADQUARTERS IN THE HAGUE, THEN TO BONN.
HE SAID "WE ARE NOT GOING TO PARADE THE FOX IN FRONT OF THE HOUNDS.
ANOTHER STORY CIRCULATING HERE AND IN BRITAIN WAS THAT LIAO
WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL SPY CATHES FOR THE WEST FOR
SEVERAL YEARS.
A FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKESMAN SAID "I CANNOT GO ON DENYING ALL
THE FANTASY BEING PRODUCED." HE WOULD A00 NOTHING FURTHER.
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X X X FURTHER.
LIAO WENT TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS HERE 10 DAYS AGO ?.
SOME REPORTS SAY IN HIS PAJAMAS AT 4 A.M. TO ASK if HE COULD
IN HOLLAND FOR THE TIME BEING BECAUSE HE no NOT WANT TO GO BAC
CHINA.
ONE VERSION OF LIAOS ACTIVITIES SAYS HE WAS A
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WHILE DUTCH DOCTORS WERE EXAMINING X-RAY PLATES OF TOE M
CAR WITH DIPLOMATIC PLATES DROVE UP TO THE HOSPITAL AT NIGHT
FIVE OR SIX CHINESE STORMED INTO THE HOSPITAL, REMOVED THE
INJURED MAN ON A STRETCHER, PUT HIM ON THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR,
SAT ON HUM AND TOOK HIM TO THE .CHI*ESE 1.413510N, WHERE HE LATER
DIED. -
A DUTCH DEMAND THAT THE BODY OF THE MAN SHOULD BE HANDED OVER
FOR A POST MORTEM WAS REFUSED BY THE CHINESE.
WHEN THE MAN WAS TAKEN To THE CREMATORIUM THE BODY WAS
CONFISCATED AND EXAMINED AND LATER RELEASED. THE POST MORTEN
REPORT HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED.
IT WAS SAID AT THE TIME THAT THE WELDER WAS ABOUT TO FLEE
TO THE WEST.
THE INCIDENT LED TO A DIPLOMATIC DEADLOCK AND REPRISALS
ON BOTH SIDES WHICH LASTED FIVE MONTHS, FINALLY BEING SOLVED
IN DECEMBER, 1966 AFTER THE DUTCH CHARGE OAFFAIRES IN PEKING
HAD BEEN PREVENTED FROM RETURNING TO HOLLAND.
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0749 $.2ND ADO THE HAGUE DEFECTOR:
X A X HOLLAND.
AT THE TIME OF HIS DEFECTION, LIAO WAS THE ONLY REMAINING
CHINESE DIPLOMAT IN THE HAGUE WHO HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH THE
INCIDENT. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE WAS DUE FOR RECALL TO PEKING AND
THAT HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE.
AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT CIRCULATING AMONG HAGUE DIPLOMATS SAYS
ON THE DAY HE FLED, LIAO FIRST WENT TO THC ots, EMBASSY HERE BUT
U.S. OFFICIALS REFUSED TO TALK TO HIM. ,
THE CHINESE MISSION WAS INFORMED OF LIAOS ACTION AND
REQUESTS BY MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE MISSION TO BE ALLOWED TO
KNOW LIAOS WHEREABOUTS WERE REFUSED BT.DUTCH AUTHORITIES.
HE WAS WHISKED AWAY UNDER A POLICE GUARD TO A HIDEOUT "SOMEWHERE
IN HOLLAND" AND WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY INTERROGATED BY SECURITY
OFFICIALS ON HIS ROLE IN THE HOSPITAL KIDNAPING INCIDENT OF 1966.
JUSTICE MINISTRY OFFICIALS SAID A STATEMENT WOULD BE ISSUED
WHEN A DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN ON THE DURATION OF LIAOS STAY IN
HOLLAND.
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GOVERNMENT AND DELIBERATELY Ei
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WITH THE U.S. ANO DUTCH GO ERNMENTS
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XXX INCIDENT."
"THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HEREBY SOLEMNLY STATES THAT
U.S. AND THE NETHERLANDS GoVERAMENTS MUST HAND LIAO )10-SHU
BACK TO CHINA, OTHERWISE THEY MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE Fof!
iliE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES ARISING THEREFROM," IT ADDED.
SINCE LIAOS DEFECTION AND PRESIBENT NIKONS ANNOUNCEMENT
OF HIS OPPOSITION TO PEKING MEMBERSHIP OF THE UNITED MATIONS
CHINA HAS NOTICEABLY INCREASED HER ANTI-U.S. 1RADED;
THE FOREIGN MINISTRY STATEMENT ALSO SAID,""U.S. IMPERIAL
AND ITS JUNIOR PARTNER, THE NETHERLANDS :VERNMENT SHOULD
REAL IZE THAT THE 700 MILLION CHINESE PEOP1X ARMtD WiTH THE
INVICIBLE THOUGHT OF MAO TSE- WO ARE BE TRIFLED WITH."
"YOU ARE LIFTING A ROCK ONLro1RP IT ON YOUR OWN FEET.
YOUR WANTON ANTI-CHIN tFit41TELY BRING YOU TO
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