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TELEGRAM NUMBER 1059
6 SEPTEMBER 1968
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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 1059 OF 6TH SEPTEMBER REPEATED PEKING.
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MY TELEGRAM NO. 1045 : GREY.
I HAVE BEEN HAVING FURTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ADVISABILITY OF
OFFERING LO AS WELL AS HSUEH FROM THE OUTSET.
2. WE HAVE HAD TWO INDICATIONS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET GREY
FOR HSUEH ALONE. THE FIRST WAS A REPORT OF A CONVERSATION IN
JANUARY WHICH HANS BARGMAN, A GERMAN CORRESPONDENT IN PEKING.
HAD IN HONG KONG WITH FAI YI MAN, THE PUBLISHER OF THE COMMUNIST
NEWSPAPER TA KUNG PAO, AND PUN TAK SING OF THE N.C.N.A. BARGMAN
REPORTED PUN AS SAYING THAT THE PRICE FOR GREY HAD NOT GONE UP WHEN HBUEH WAS RELEASED GREY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE CHINA.
3. THE SECOND INDICATION MAS A CONVERSATION WHICH SAM JAFFE
OF THE AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO. HAD HERE ON 213T AUGUST WITH
BZETO KEUNG OF THE N.C.N.A. SZETO SAID, ACCORDING TO JAFFE,
THAT GREY WOULD BE RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER OUR JOURNALIST IS
RELEABED IN OCTOBER*, THE IMPORTANT POINT 19 THAT HE SPOKE OF A
JOURNALIST IN THE SINGULAR, HE MADE A MISTAKE IN THE MONTH,
COURSE - IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOVEMBER,
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