Ralph McGehee's Archive on JFK Place
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5/2/96

              CIA Operations in China Part III

   Since the earlier posting re CIA operations in China a few additional 
facts have appeared. 

   China publicity re arrest in China the summer of 1995
endowed Harry Wu with influence. He now appears everywhere to disrupt and
disturb American foreign policy on China. Wu in April 1996 cancelled an 
appearance at Stanford University in order to testify before the United 
Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Harry Wu uses deceit. Wu 
is capable of doing considerable damage to public interest re United States
policy policy toward china. In a February 1996 Playboy interview He said, 
"I videotaped a prisoner whose kidneys were surgically removed while 
he was alive, and then the prisoner was taken out and shot. The tape 
was broadcast by BBC." Recently a videotape of the BBC telecast of the
and found nothing that comes close to depicting any organ removal. 
   
   After Wu's return from China, the Laogai Research Foundation, 
(funded By the National Endowment for Democracy a surrrogate
CIA) of which Wu is the executive director, issued a claim that no 
attempt to mislead was intended.  

   Ching-lee Wu, his wife, spoke in Wu's stead at the Stanford meeting 
and used the occasion to unveil a "new documentary" on public executions 
in China.  The film was co-produced by Wu's Laogai Foundation and Freedom 
House (also funded by the U.S. Government) and reflected Wu's typical 
approach of mixing historical facts with unsupported assertions skillfully 
woven with "background shots." Inconsistencies and shifting statements abound 
from Wu's public utterances and activities.  The real puzzle is why
and how the media have so willingly swallowed Wu's utterances.  
I believe Wu has sponsors and supporters with vested interests
in containing China through public opinion, irrespective of truth and
facts.  

   One of Wu's more obvious sponsors is the AFL-CIO (AFL-CIO's
International Department has long and close ties to CIA).
An ABC Nightline program revealed that Wu's clandestine trip into 
China via Kazakstan was financed by the AFL-CIO, and the attorney who 
accompanied Wu was on the AFL-CIO payroll.  After the two were detained, she 
was promptly released and that was how the world first heard about Wu's 
arrest.  Wu is now more useful to the AFL-CIO by becoming a public
anti-China spokesperson on behalf of American labor. The Laogai Research 
Foundation is in the AFL-CIO's Washington D.C. headquarters building.  
George P. Koo tried to reach the Foundation via the AFL-CIO.  The 
headquarters switchboard transferred my call to their Food and Allied 
Services Trade who then switched the call over to a line with a recorded 
message representing the Foundation.  

   Koo's recorded message requesting information was eventually forwarded 
to Harry Wu in Milpitas, California.  AFL-CIO'S agenda on China and its 
dependence on Wu is no secret; the media simply have not seen fit 
to report the matter.  In a testimony before the Congress in July 1995, 
Peggy Taylor, Director of Department of Legislation of AFL-CIO, made 
specific mention of "this lucrative trade" in organ transplants from 
prisoners as reason to deny Most Favored Nation (MFN) trading status to 
China. Information from a George P. Koo, via Herb Ho and New York News 
Transfer, 5/2/96.

   The Bulletin of Concerned Asia Scholars ran an interview with 
Fang Lizhi, China's most prominent and vocal advocate of democracy. 
More than any other individual, he sparked, stoked and gave voice to 
the [Tiananmen Square incident]. After the demonstrations of 6/4/89, 
Fang fled to the U.S. Embassy where he remained a year. In 1992, Fang 
became a tenured professor at the University of Arizona where he 
champions human rights worldwide, especially in China.  

   In the interview Fang admitted that he is a member of Human Rights 
in China, is Vice President of the Chinese Committee to end the Chinese 
Gulag (obviously the Laogai Foundation headed by Harry Wu) which in Fang's 
words is part of Asia Watch. Asia Watch is undoubtedly Human Rights 
Watch/Asia the same organization that produced the study on orphans in 
China that created a media frenzy. Human Rights Watch/Asia claims it is 
"privately funded." 
  
   Another probable CIA operation aimed at China is a march; A group of 
marchers are trekking seven hours a day from the Chinese embassy in 
Washington to New York City. The walk is sponsored by the International 
Tibet Independence Movement, the U.S. Tibet Committee, the Tibetan Woman's 
Association, and Students of Free Tibet.  Larry Gerstein, a coordinator of 
the march said, "We are not interested in negotiating with China, 
we're interested in a free and independent Tibet." Comment: Earlier the CIA 
sponsored Tibetan guerrillas who were trained at Camp Hale in Colorado.  
A group of Americans who happened to see them at an airport were held 
at gunpoint for an extended period.   
   
   The marching group is led by Thubten Jigme Norbu-- the Dalai Lama's eldest 
brother and Palden Gyatso. (Earlier the American Society for a Free Asia, 
ostensibly a private lobbying group, set up with CIA help sponsored a 
United States lecture tour in 1956 by Thubten Norbu; Gyatso in 1959
had organized 500 monks against the Chinese). 

   In testimony to Congress in 1996, the Director of CIA, John Deutch, 
declared the CIA will be paying its closest attention to China because 
that nation has the greatest military power for the foreseeable future. 
and the CIA began publicizing China's shipment of magnets to Pakistan.  
     
   Many of the current China operations appear under the rubric of the 
National Endowment for Democracy, Harry Wu's Laogai foundation, 
and the other 17 operations financed by NED to alter the government 
of China.

   An operation whose sponsorship may be becoming clearer is Human Rights 
Watch/Asia.  This organization appears to be an offshoot of the Helsinki 
Watch, in part funded by NED. It was a report by Human Rights 
Watch/Asia on the treatment of orphans in China that kicked off a media 
frenzy, especially when tied to the testimonials about human rights 
abuses by Harry Wu of the U.S.-financed Laogai Foundation.  

   This on-going campaign re human rights violations in China, finds
NED totally emersed in the publicity and permits us to see more clearly 
the direct link between NED and CIA and NED's "Human Rights" campaign
and the CIA's Operation Yellow Bird.

   Operation Yellow Bird - is the name for clandestine rescue from
China of most important pro-democracy leaders. For 6 months after the June
crackdown, CIA's most valued agents in China, Hong Kong, and Macao provided
A safe haven and means of escape. Wuer kaixi and Li Lu disappeared, later
Other leading dissidents wan Runnan and Yan Jaiqi, made it to west. During
Last week in may, U.S. Ambassador Lilley handed out more than 200 visas to
Intellectuals, scientists, and students and on several occasions lent money
To escapees. In absence of credible CIA leadership in China, Lilley was
Once again CIA's Beijing COS. Chinese astrophysicist, Fang Lizhi, went to
Embassy for safe haven.

   President Bush ordered a covert action that rescued Pro-democracy 
leaders in China. CIA coordinated underground railroad that smuggled 
perhaps hundreds to Hong Kong in Operation Yellow Bird that involved 
the use of CIA-supplied disguises, scrambler telephones, night-vision
Gunsights, infra-red signalers, speedboats and weapons for off-shore ops.
For a 6 month period following crackdown, a network of dozens of CIA's most
valued agents in China, Hong Kong and Macao provided a safe haven and means
of escape for most important organizers. Bush's finding endorsed a program
already underway. 


posted 9/6/96

                 WORLDWIDE COVERT OPERATIONS

  A recent diplomatic battle between Cuba and the United States
highlights the worldwide use of U.S.-sponsored human rights groups 
by (presumably) the CIA:
 
     Cuba is expelling Robin Meyer a U.S. diplomat in the
  Political-Economic section whose primary duty was human rights issues. 
  The State Department said "during her two years in Cuba, Ms. Meyer has 
  openly met with representatives of human rights and independent professional
  groups throughout the island, providing moral support and distributing
  published information...newspapers, magazines and college textbooks on
  government, democracy, international relations and journalism." 
  Washington Post 8/20/96 A7 

     The United States is determined to maintain contact with dissidents, 
  with a declared goal of inciting dissent. Cuba recently refused to renew 
  the visa of Robin Meyer, Second Secretary of the U.S. Interests Section 
  in Havana, for she supported, organized and united small 
  counterrevolutionary groups.  Washington Post 8/22/96 A2

  Robert Gates, a former Director of the CIA, said the CIA uses 
human rights issues to subvert other governments. The National 
Endowment for Democracy (NED) is the overt implement for creating and 
funding these human rights organizations. In 1983, the CIA passed, or 
so we were told, many its political action functions to NED 
-- supposedly an independent entity but one that is funded by 
Congress. 

   Events in Cuba prove U.S. organization and management of these groups 
for subversion, whether by the State Department or more likely, the CIA. 
This leads to the probability that CIA uses NED for cover and that NED's 
hundreds of so-called non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- many 
of them human rights groups, are little more than fronts for the 
operations of the CIA.  Since NED sponsors human rights groups 
and other NGOs in about 90 countries this creates a massive worldwide 
mechanism for subversion.

   A number of countries, other than Cuba, have protested the activities 
of NED-CIA's NGOs -- China and Vietnam are good examples. Earlier Vietnam 
arrested activists during the visits of two human rights representatives 
from the U.S. -- General William Westmoreland and former CIA Director, 
William Colby. 

   China this year said the United States was using human rights 
as an excuse for subversion and protested the activities of various 
U.S.-sponsored groups and individuals -- citing especially 
NED-financed Harry WU and his espionage (and propaganda) operations. 
In August, China began blocking internet messages from human rights 
and other similar groups from entering China.

   In some countries -- such as Burma -- we may agree with the goals
of NED-CIA. But when the Agency uses human rights as a universal cover 
for subversion -- no matter what the target, we all will suffer. 
(It is important to recall that the Vietnam war was a direct result 
of a failed CIA operation.)
  
   One thing is certain, the people in countries being brought 
NED-CIA's gift of democracy will suffer. The record is clear and 
unequivocal: CIA operations sustain or empower military or political 
elite (the rich and powerful) who frequently decimate poorer societal 
elements who are struggling for equality -- labor unionists, students, 
liberal politicians, and others. A few of the countries where people
have been murdered as a consequence of CIA operations are: Guatemala, 
Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, Vietnam, Laos, 
Indonesia, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba and many others.

   In the case of CUBA, I have extracted a few citations from CIABASE 
re the activities of NED-CIA human rights and other groups in that 
country.  

Ralph McGehee
CIABASE 

  Cuba, 84-91 Despite its overt character, the National Endowment for 
  Democracy (NED) also engages in extensive covert operations. Dozens 
  of U.S. organizations have acted as conduits for NED funds. NED is made
  up of core groups - the National Democratic Institute for International
  Affairs (NDI); National Republican Institute for International 
  Affairs (NRI aka IRI); Center for Private Enterprise (CIPE), a branch 
  of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and the Free Trade Union Institute, 
  an international branch of the AFL-CIO. A host of "private" organizations 
  include the right-wing Freedom House and the Councils on the Americas, 
  that handle programs for "civic" sectors. Robinson, W. (1992). 
  A Faustian Bargain 18-9
 
  The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is the Reagan administration's
  structure to influence foreign journalists ala the CIA in the fifties. The 
  only difference is that the government has found a new way to launder the 
  money. In 9/84 NED gave Leonard Sussman's Freedom House $200,000. Freedom 
  House is a conservative human rights organization set up by a net of 
  opinion makers...to end the isolation of democratic-minded intellectuals 
  and journalists in the third world. The idea is to send articles to regional
  editors on each continent to reprint the article. Ten to 12 articles each
  month are sent to 350 journalists in 50 countries. Authors of the articles 
  are neoconservatives. Articles were sent to Nicaragua from Leiken, Arturo 
  Cruz and Pedro Chamorro. Freedom House also disseminated an attack on 
  people in Jamaica, an investigation of the far left in Australia and a 
  feature on West Europe's peace groups' relations with the PLO. All of the 
  articles on South Africa have argued against divestment. Articles on 
  Afghanistan, Tibet, Angola, Poland, Grenada, Ethiopia, the Ukraine and 
  Cuba have been distributed. Freedom House received an additional 
  $175,000 to operate the exchange. The Nation 5/24/86, 720|