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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)