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 ======================================================================== 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)