5/2/96 CIA Operations in China Part II 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 is 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.