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Mi Mi Sr. is branded as Pro-CCP for his CBS-IC activities






For your information, Mi Mi Sr. is branded as Pro-CCP for his CBS-IC activities
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>From  Zx11@*******.edu

Mi Mi:
   I have to tell you, many of your remarks make people, not only
one,  feel you are helping the CCP. Just a reminder, please take care.

>From 75207.2177@*******.com

Huang Ling:

If you are a communist, then I will try my best to expose you.  If you are not
a communist, then stop licking chinese communist's ass so willingly and so
eagerly.  Answer my question: are you a communist?

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Mr. Lin Huang
National Coordinator
CBS Incident Committee
3044 Albany Crescent 1G
Bronx, NY 10463
(718)-548-9114
October 28, 1994

Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Room 3E258, The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301 - 7400
Tel (703)-695-7353
Fax (703)-695-7336

Dear General:

We have received a letter on Sept. 20, 1994, from Mr. Lenker 
on your behalf in response to our letter of Sept.3, 1994, 
about your subordinate Mr. Nicholas Eftimiades and the 
witch-hunt book he has written. We appreciate very much your 
kind response. However, Chief Lenker's letter just restated 
your view points that we have already understood and our 
letter was intended to be a follow-up to those view points. 
We have raised very specific questions and requests in our 
letter. Could you please re-examine the letter and kindly 
consider them.

For your convenience, let me put our questions and requests 
bellow.

1. Since the receptionist at your agency refuses to let us 
contact Mr. Eftimiades about the matter, we, as a concerned 
group, wish General's office could help us to build the 
communication with Mr. Eftimiades, so we can have the 
opportunity to discuss with Mr. Eftimiades the mistakes he 
made in the name of a DIA agent and in his book, and to 
improve mutual understanding.

2. Since Mr. Eftimiades has allowed himself to be constantly 
referred to by the media as an agent from Defense 
Intelligence Agency to advance his personal agenda (as CBS 
News crew has confirmed to us when we met), we hope the 
agency could look into the matter and consider its 
appropriateness. 

If an investigation of ethics violations has been conducted, 
would you please advise us what has been examined and what 
conclusions have been made. A copy of the written report in 
that regard will be very helpful if it is not confidential. 

3. We understand that the DIA can not possibly authorize Mr. 
Eftimiades' public appearances, but the public will perceive 
Mr. Eftimiades as an "insider" of the agency in the name of 
an active agent, and having access to internal top secret 
information which led him to his unsubstantiated 
conclusions. We hope the Defense Intelligence Agency would 
clear the misunderstanding to the mass media and the 
American public and present your stand on comments by Mr. 
Eftimiades attacking the U.S. government policies as 
"unseen, unspoken but real and deliberate reluctance" "to 
bang on China."

4. Given the existence of many mistakes in the book, and 
distortions in Mr. Eftimiades' public interviews, both 
intentional and unintentional on his part, we hope the 
Defense Intelligence Agency would create a guideline for its 
employees in public appearances and private conducts to 
prevent anyone from taking advantage of the Agency for 
personal gains.

As we now understand from your correspondent that, as a 
matter of fact, Mr. Eftimiades acts as a private citizen, 
and had done all the book writing procedure with his own 
fund, time, and resources. And above all, all the resources 
are OPENLY available. You have concluded, based upon the 
aforementioned claim, your agency has nothing to do with 
this private, profit-oriented venture, and as a matter of 
fact, you are NOT going to do anything to promote or retard 
such an action.

However, I beg to differ between being a private citizen and 
at the same time an employee of your agency, and being an 
ordinary citizen without any affiliation with intelligence 
agencies. My colleagues and I are all private citizens, and 
all of us are using our own time, fund, and resources. All 
of our resources are publicly available and thus need no 
clearance from any intelligence agencies. In fact, we have 
revisited the very same documents Mr. Eftimiades had cited 
in his book and his interviews with the media, and we have 
total different interpretations, even as subtle as the mere 
quoted numbers. Based on the same document, we have 
concluded that Mr. Eftimiades has grossly mis-interpreted 
and exaggerated facts, and come up with a totally different 
story. Yet, all the reputable news agencies, such as CBS, 
Associated Press and Wall Street Journal all took Mr. 
Eftimiades as the established facts and truth, while our 
report has been rejected by even a minority newspaper based 
on the reason that our conclusion is contradictory to Mr. 
Eftimiades' story. The only reason here, is that your 
agency's name made the difference! Your agency's name makes 
Mr. Eftimiades creditable whatever he says, unless he is 
challenged by you. For the public perceive that as an 
insider of your agency, Mr. Eftimiades knows much more than 
a mere private citizen. Even he does not cite ANY source, he 
is credited by the fact that he is an employee of your 
agency. His citing publicly available resource, even without 
exaggeration on his part, still indicates a institutional 
favor toward the view-point of the author, and that 
institution is, in fact, the Defense Intelligence Agency. 

We understand your point of view not to promote or retard a 
private venture. But actually, keep a distance from this 
incident ONLY promotes the totally unjustifiable insult and 
damage on an ethnic group, and retard the personal well 
being and integrity of an entire minority people. 

Thank you for your attention. I am looking forward to your 
kind response.

Sincerely,
 
Mr. Lin Huang
National Coordinator, CBS Incident Committee
Chair, Committee on Civil Rights
The Independent Federation of Chinese Student and Scholars 
in the U.S.

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Mr. Lin Huang
National Coordinator
CBS Incident Committee
3044 Albany Crescent 1G
Bronx, NY 10463
(718)-548-9114
October 28, 1994

Honorable Commissioner Marry Frances Berry:

On May 19th 1994, CBS Evening News aired the notorious report 
on "Chinese spy network" in front of a television audience of 
over 12 million people, which greatly exaggerated the problem 
and caused whole Asian-American community to be regarded with 
unwarranted suspicion. The CBS Incident Committee, together 
with Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, 
Committee of 100, Organization of Chinese Americans, Asian 
American Journalist Association and Asian Pacific American Bar 
Association have protested and demanded an apology on the air 
and a retraction from CBS. During the course of events, we also 
wrote to you to voice our grave concern and received your 
sympathy and support. We appreciate it very much that the U.S. 
Commission on Civil Rights has written to CBS to sensitize the 
network with the issue. 

On October 21st, CBS issued a statement to express a sense of 
apology for the incorrect impression its report has left. Even 
though we feel that the statement on the part of CBS falls 
short of fully apologizing for the damages their report may 
have done, we welcome the gesture and view it as a positive 
step toward mutual respect and understanding. Also, we believe 
without your support, it could not have happened so soon. 

CBS incident struck a common cord in our heart--that is--one 
should be sensitive to the feelings of a particular ethnic 
group and should value the racial harmony which is the very 
basis of this country. We believe we have done the right thing 
in bringing up the issue and we want to thank you for your work 
in this regard. 

We are still working on the issue of Mr. Eftimiades. The DIA 
has openly discredited him as an expert on China affairs, but 
the CBS News crew has confirmed to us that he did claim himself 
the otherwise. Lately he refuses to answer phone calls from us 
and even from the CBS. 

We wish the Commission on Civil Rights could look into this 
matter. For instance, it is unclear whether Mr. Eftimiades 
violated government ethics codes in using the name of a 
government intelligent agent to pursue his own personal fame 
and fortune. Since our investigation team has uncovered 
numerous deliberate exaggerations and fabrications in Mr. 
Eftimiades' book, we are also questioning that if it is 
appropriate that a Federal government agency like DIA should 
allow this kind of highly inflammatory, biased and profit-only 
material to go to the public retarding the well-being and civil 
rights of an entire minority group.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely, 

 

Lin Huang 
National Coordinator, CBS Incident Committee 
Chair, Committee on Civil Rights 
The Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars


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