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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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