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PROFESSOR PAUL T K LIN (Your letter HKK 040/1 of 5 january to Robin Mclaren)

1. The following information on Professor Lin is recorded here and may be of interest.

2.

Paul T K Lin, Lin Daguang (Lin Ta-kuang 2651/6671/0342) was born in Canada and lived in Peking from 1949 to about 1964. In 1955 he was a member of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and wrote an article entitled "US Espionage and Subversion against China" in People's China magazine (No. 3, 1955). He is a relative of the late Vice-Chairman of the People's Republic Soong Ching-ling. Having returned to Canada in the 1960's he became Professor of Chinese history at McGill University, Montreal.

He was

a frequent visitor to China and in 1973 was President of the Canada-China Society. By 1975 he was Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies at McGill University.

Professor Lin is well known as a spokesman for Peking's point of view in western academic circles, and over the years the Chinese appear to have made fairly consistent use of him in this capacity. I had not heard before that Lin had organised Henry Kissinger's first visit to China, in 1971 (see the footnote to Lord Kadoorie's memorandum), but it is possible that he had some part in preparing the initial contact.

10 January 1983

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Far Eastern Section Research Department G 59/4 2333473

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RJT McLaren Esq CMG, Political Adviser, Hong Kong A C Galsworthy Esq, Peking

P B Thomson Esq, FED

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