Word: hsinhua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans-Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City-surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons...
Then there is the required reading, beginning each morning with the 30 or 40 pages of Hsinhua (the Communist New China News Agency) and the daily Peking radio transcript. It is turgid, tendentious and tedious. But the attention that the Chinese Communists give to Albania, or to confessions of crop failures in one province or another, provide clues to explore. A small colony of experts from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Japan does the same job in Hong Kong, and there is much pooling of information. The U.S. consulate assembles a massive and useful Survey of the Mainland...
...Cuba, where Peking agents now operate a newspaper, show Chinese Communist movies at the biggest theaters, and harangue the 30,000 Havana Chinese (overwhelmingly sympathetic to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists) at streetcorner rallies. In Havana sits Kung Mai, Peking's manager in Latin America for Hsinhua, the New China News Agency. Kung Mai has constructed an intricate web of correspondents and "cultural representatives" through half a dozen major countries in South America. Kung's local correspondent in Buenos Aires now cables more wordage out of Argentina than any other foreign correspondent; through the Cuban embassy...
...most key areas of the world, China's efforts are still overshadowed by Russia, but Peking is clearly struggling for a separate identity. In the Middle East, where Mao's recognition of the Algerian rebel government helped to woo Arab sentiment, Hsinhua has displaced Tass as the chief fountainhead of Communist "news." This year for the first time Red China set up its own big separate industrial exhibition in Baghdad. Many Iraqi nationalists say that it was Peking's Communist agents, not Russia's, who whipped up the local Reds to bloody excesses...