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...Downey's law firm in Wallingford, Conn.--his home town--recently changed its name from Carrozzella and Richardson to Carrozzella, Richardson and Downey...
...Downey said last week he does not like to discuss publicly the CIA, China or the years he spent there. The federal government no longer is in touch with him. Downey added, and although he receives occasional lecture invitations, he always "politely declines...
...Chinese released Downey in March 1973 after President Nixon admitted that the American was a CIA agent. The United States maintained for years that Downey was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army, and in 1954 the Defense Department said Chinese accusations of espionage against Downey "illustrate again the bad faith, insincerity and amorality" of the Chinese government...
...Downey was chained in leg irons until he provided his captors' information about the CIA, and he then spent another 14 months in solitary confinement. United States officials have never revealed the nature of Downey's mission in China, but Chinese officials said in 1954 that Downey had been trying to get supplies to a spy ring he was organizing within Chinese borders...
...People's Republic arrested nine citizens of Nationalist China at the same time as Downey and accused them of taking part in the spy ring...