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...respecting resident of The Hague to be on the streets, and the desk sergeant at police headquarters was baffled by the middle-aged Chinese, clad in pajamas and raincoat, who stood before him. From the mixture of broken Dutch and poor English, the problem resolved itself: the man was Liao Ho-shu, 46, interim chief of Communist China's mission in The Netherlands, and he wanted police protection. After some delay, he was turned over to the Dutch BVD (security police), who whisked him off for interrogation at a spacious, secluded castle called "Hoge Veluwe." "He told...
...Americans were happy to oblige, for Liao, in addition to his administrative duties at the mission, was a top intelligence officer. Within hours, a top-ranking, Chinese-speaking CIA agent arrived to join in the questioning. Liao told the CIA man that he wanted to go to the States, and last week he arrived in Washington for a complete debriefing in one of the CIA's discreet, safe houses...
...West, it was an intelligence windfall of major proportions. Liao is by far the most important Chinese official ever to defect,* and Holland's Justice Minister C.H.F. Polak let slip the word that he "knows an unbelievable lot." While Berne and Paris remain the major centers for Chinese espionage in Europe, The Hague plays an important role as a principal communications link for Chinese agents, and Liao's contributions on this aspect are expected to be spellbinding. The net effect of Liao's defection has been to jeopardize a large proportion of China's espionage agents...
Ideological Problems. Why did Liao leave? He had served in The Hague since 1963, and thus avoided most of the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. As an economics specialist, he played a role in persuading Dutch businessmen to invest in China, and promotions came routinely. When Peking summoned its senior diplomats home for reindoctri-nation in 1967, Liao took charge of the mission on a temporary basis. In the past several months, he began to suspect that his ideological correctness had come into question; he was being carefully watched by his subordinates. There were reports that in recent weeks Liao...
...leaflets accusing India of imperialist aggression in the Rann of Kutch. A flood of Indonesian papers described Malaysia as a stooge of British imperialism. One Angolan exile movement accused another Angolan exile movement of being "imperialist-supported." And, to top it all off, Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Member Liao Cheng-chih accused Russia of "collaborating with the United States to dominate the world." The fact that most of the 50 delegations present also managed to get in some licks against Washington did nothing at all for the cause of solidarity. "How boring they are with their constant repetition...