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Reader's Digest has responded to our concerns.
Special report from CBS-IC
Reader's Digest has responded to our concerns.
Dear CSS netters nation-wide: Recently several netters
alerted us that the Reader's Digest's December issue is
going to report on an "army of Chinese spies in U.S.A."
Based on this timely message, CBS-IC instantly reached out
to the Editorial Board of that magazine. Many concerned
netters and other Chinese American organizations also joined
force to sensitize them. Today, Reader's Digest has
responded positively to our concerns.
CBS-IC wants to convey the message to our constituents
across the nation and all of the concerned media that we are
not a protesting group. We are against wrongly stereotyping
Chinese Americans in any unfair way. We hope that our
successful movement prompted by the unfortunate CBS incident
will promote our self-awareness, self-respect and self-
confidence, as a decent, law-abiding minority group in the
eye of American public.
In the past a few days, it was our netters across the
country who made our voice be heard. We sincerely thank all
of you who have supported us and stood with us in the past
five month.
However, at this point we still can not obtain a preprint to
evaluate the article. Therefore, we urge all of you to pay
close attention to any new development and what is actually
done in the December issue of Reader's Digest.
Sincerely Yours,
CBS Incident Committee
November 1, 1994
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Reader's Digest
Pleasantville, New York 10570
Howard Dickman
Senior Staff Editor
(914)-241-5442
October 31, 1994
Mr. Lin Huang
Chair, Civil Rights Committee/IFCSS
CBS Incident Committee
3044 Albany Crescent 1G
Bronx, NY 10463
Dear Mr. Lin Huang
On behalf of Christopher Willcox, Executive Editor of
Reader's Digest, I am responding to the letter you faxed
today to the office of the Editor-in-Chief. I am confident
that you will find our upcoming report on Chinese espionage
in the United States to be factually accurate and balanced.
It does not state or imply that the vast majority of Chinese
Americans, legal residents or visitors have any involvement
in espionage activity, or indeed are anything other than
law-abiding.
Thanking you for your letter and expression of concern, I
am,
Sincerely yours,
Howard Dickman (signed)