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We have since received confirmation from Singapore where
Mr. Barrymaine is normally resident and where some of his
friends approached members of the "Ilanoi's" crew, that he
was taken off the vessel by Chinese authorities in Shanghai
on 23 February. No reason was given for his detention.
6.
After
Frior to 1950 Mr. Barrynaine was diplomatic correspondent of the "Evening Standard" and was well known to News Department. He then joined the Information Research Department (I.R.D.)
but the appointment was terminated in 1954 because it was
suspected that he was leaking official information.
leeving I.ä.D. he was in touch with the Soviet Embassy in
London, on the strength of which he wrote an article entitled
"How I Joined the Russian Secret Service" which was published
in the "Sunday Times" on 7 May, 1961, end which he has since
frequently sold or tried to sell to other papers hero and
abroad.
7. The "Sunday Telegraph" of 4 December, 1966, carried an
article by him entitled "Back Door to Vietnad of which the
first paragraph reads: "I gatecrashed North Vietnam without
even a transit visa. I voyaged from Kobe aboard the Polish
freighter Kapitan Kosko via the roundabout route of Chungjin
in North Korea, Shanghai and Hong Kong." With this article
was published a photograph of shipping in Haiphong and another
of a U.S. plane reconnoitring the author's ship.
8. Two of Mr. Barrymeine's articles on China, neither
particularly flattering to the Cultural Revolution, have
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