Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : _DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32293957 Page 1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10212-10233 HQ 100-339235-2ND NR 370 Document Information FBI . LEG, OT DIRECTOR, FBI 11/06/1970 8 [Restricted] PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret , 1C; 4 Redact 09/21/1998 INDEFINITE INC LTR, MEMO, A/T Date: 5/4/2015
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eased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote;. DATE: 11-14-2017 - | FD-36 (Tis. $-22- bay . en woe 4 eee ve . s want an ae. Fs \ an NN it ian Ye 3 . . - . VAY | \ i 11-6-70 \ Transmit the following in | (Type in plaintext or code VY fx LER ‘Airtel VIA COU? Director, FBI Legat, Ottawa (105-4059)3..) RITA PHEPPS IS - CH SE SS Enclosed are the original and one copy offacup | “Oi 4 D letter dated 10-30+70 ogether with three copics of the ww aS enclosure thereto [Note ROMP request in paragraph threg}(%) : thy a / wea, oS Cttawa file on Margaret Russell has been destroyed, Bufile “for ‘Anni Louise Strong is 100-7888 and that for David VCrook is 105-18683, BUfile on the Communist Party of Canada, ‘(Marxist - Leninist) is 105-192311. Newberry was last * pment ioned “losis to my letter dated 7-3-70 on te ile 105-192311 5 COMOVRAL FILER 88 - io * 5 cotta aero opéning pending files on wr. (CG U) Lie, | Dora Tong xveau is re equested to advise | BEN URICSEN  cuMeytomenzaned  peeriretorenete # \ | Bureau Cone. 1 ce see : se NOY pecial Agent in Charge Docld: 32293957 Page 4
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sn2011 . THE COMM: OMI, Hoe : [OVAL CANAQIAN MOUNTED POLICES WSN OFTAWA 7, CANADA - HEADQUARTERS — DIRECTION GENERALE Orne Ne 163-5hb—25h ; OTTAWA 7, CANADA sun wo. D 97215-3321 Co October 30,. 1970 NOTRE NO . . ; SECRET Mr. Moss Lee INNES, c/o United States Embassy, ‘OTTAWA, Ontario. Dear Mr. INNES , A copy of the attachment to-this letter has been referred to Mr. Robert JANTZEN for his. information. Ze Persons mentioned in the attacnment have been - tentatively identified as Rita PHIPPS, your reference 163- ohh = so 254; Margaret RUSSELL, your reference "100- 1332; Sterling NEWBERRY who has been "ment ioned frequently in connection with the militant Maoist organization presently known as the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist/Leninist), your - reference 105-3541; Anna Louise STRONG, your reference 100- ilel; and David CROOK, your reference 100-780. 3.0: We would appreciate any assistance your Headquarters may be able to provide in further identifying - the following additional persons also named in the attacn-.- ment.: (1) Mr. LIE (phonetic) . (2) Dora TONG and Mr. TONG (possibly TANG Ying-shen) (3) Susan WINE (or WONG) (or WARREN) (phonetic). Ae” The contents of the attachment should not oe further disseminated without prior reference to the RCMP, Yours very truly, if we. - - a SS cAES iat aie nein hae aacind cunt aaeeinani ed diate oeccatecen seanaietessaacttamammcancimne aero steer ger meen ae oer tet seca eee eng seats tr oeeeepnge srs ep. serene prey ener se Sor seemns cy yrs rp nrteerinna ea eget Re me LER proveee Docld: 32293957 Page 6
October 29, 1970 | , On September 1, 1970 N.C.N.A. representative | ' “PY Chao-min told a reliable source he nad been contacted by Rita PHIPPS of New York who was then visiting Ottawa, Ontario, and, at her request, PU had agreed to meet PHIPPS at the N.C.N.A.. ‘ premises the following morning at 10:00 a.m. PU also mentioned — that he had a particularly busy schedule for tne following day -with appointments commencing at 7:30 a.m. es On September 2, 1970, prior to Rita PHIPPS' 10:00 a.m. “appointment, PU was visited by a male individuel named Mr. Lik a (phonetic) who, although he spoke a few words in Chinese, conversed °° with PU almost entirely in English. LIE was evidently from the ve! “U.S.A. wand although he didn't mention his address, he aid say he was in the process of moving to Seattle where he hopes to..-... coe return to graduate studies. He mentioned further that about 9° oon | _| five years ago he was working towards a Doctorate in Theoretical. <1"; .| Physics and dia a lot. of research work for the National Science cB “| Soundation in America. He claimed to be the only scientist in © ... | his-field to have obtained a grant: from that institution. © Oe - Q, ‘LIE said that during those years he was essentially |... “\apolitical. but had developed a Gislike for China because of what a jhe read in the bourgeois press. .Then, when "they" started olaming Poe --< the Vietnam war on Chinese aggression he started studying about MG "China and formed a completely opposite opiriion. This prompted a we TE ’ @eeision on his part to convey the results of hiscresearch in | ae ' Theoretical Physics to China rather than to the capitalist U.S. Government, so he wrote a letter to Dr. NEEDHAM, a professor in . ce “s England, requesting NEEDHAM's assistance in obtaining entry to ne, “ China with his research material. | (COMMENT: Dr. NEEDHAM is almost... °.-). _° certainly identical to Dr. Joseph NEEDHAM, a prominent. British oe Re > Sinophile who heads tne Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding). ne Our source advises that at this point in the LTE/PU oe “meeting their discussion was interrupted by the scheduled 10:00 a.m... arrival of Rita PHIPPS. .PU introduced Mrs. PHIPPS to N.C.N.A. . re rns - Translator LO Yi-ching and LO's wife, and to Mr. LIE. Their sub- = “ sequent. conversation was dominated almost entirely by LIE with ._ “+ only occasional remarks from Rita PHIPPS, and almost no comment ““by any of tne others present. Tt . LIE related how he had once’ met David CROOK, a -- British subject who spent many years in China teaching at a foreign. . language institute. He said the meeting took place in thé Chinese = /j Embassy, London, England, when LIE was at the Emoassy seeking an 9... entry visa to.China. The visa was not authorized because of the are "disruption in China resulting from the Cultural Revolution. 9 2 Although LIE has not met CROOK since then, he has heard that CROOK - returned to China where he was arrested. He said that he heard “hnna Louise STRONG was also. arrested during the Cultural Revolution .. u “as were many other foreigners. gg Vip ome ee oe ENCLOSURE eee e ek Docld: 32293957 Page ?F
Reteaged’ under che John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (4 ey. / DARE: 1st 217 7 - _ | } ; om, Ss | a= 4 . fo * Lit chen asked these present whesmyé they we acquainted with a revolutionary group in the San Francisco area to which Rita PHIPPS remarked being familiar with ‘che Area Revolutionary Union; and its publication, "Rea Paper". Within this context LIE mentioned knowing Susan WINS (or WONG) (or WARREN) (phonetic) in New York and also Marg RUSSEL, two Americans who are associated with China. Marg RUSSEL is about 77 years old and used to live in China but for the past ten years has been travelling across the U.S.A. "telling tne truth about China to universities, church groups, etc. She is editor of a’. . paper called Far Eastern Reporter and, in LIE's opinion, is a “- very advanced communist. me e to to 4 seb) ws 8d it) a According to LIE, Marg RUSSEL told him about this “Sen Francisco Bay area group and invited him to go out to tne West coast not realizing that he planned.to go there anyway. "Taney" are forming a communist party on both the East and West coast, and. ‘Marg RUSSEL toid LIZ that people from China or people wno visit China are assisting in the formation of this party so as to. ensure it has a correct political orientation. Marg RUSSEL also told LIE this new party would be more advanced than the Black : Panthers or the.American Communist Workers movements. » - oe wage eet LIE mentioned that he and his wife are also acquainted . with Sterling NEWBERRY and his wife, NEWBERRY being another political’. . activist in the U.S.A. He recalled that about four-years ago the \ NEWBERRYs lost their jobs as teachers oecause of their political activities and although they were not then pro-Maoist, they did profess to be socialists. .Later, they wrote to LIE from Cleveland = 9 "| * saying they intended to go to New York, and that they. now oelieved 9. | in Chairman MAOQ's thought. oe BS a Ck LIE met them in New York and took them to "our" Soe friend Susan WINE (or WONG) (or WARREN) (phonetic) to talk about - the political situation in America.. We also talked apdout Sterling 9 4 -NEWBERRY's newspaper, "The Workers Advocate”, which has since been - me changed to "Mass Lines". LIE expressed the view that "Mass Lines" is not really a mass paper, the masses don't read it, and haven't cat even heard about it. It is too theoretical and doesn't try tO 0 fF ws understand the problems of the people whereas the Black Panther. on! paper, although not as elevated in political content, is far more: oor.8" to the point and has a circulation of about 250,000 weekly as 9° compared to about 1000 for "Mass Lines". LIE considers NEWBERRY | oe . to be sort of arrogant, and easily angered by any form of criticism; . _ °° ‘he also- feels that NEWBERRY is prone to exaggeration about his. own power and influence. - Ae Conversation was interrupted at this point by the - arrival. of a Mrs. Dora TONG and Mr. "ONG whom LIE introduced as his friends. At another point he referred to his friend TANG Ying~shen (phonetic), who may be identical to one of the TONGs. - LIE remarked that he would have to leave soon to take his friends Docld: 32293957 Page &
‘to the airport b visit vefore going reservations from and they had.to ve Rita PHIPPS! husband arrived next with their two . a | Gaughters, Anna and Jessica, and Rita introduced them to PU Chao-_ . a min and his wife, to Mr. TONG and his wife Dora TONG, to LIE and - pes ‘to Mr. and Hrs. LO. Yi-ching. - t to Toronto for a orief the TONGs had onward ecause they are flying Massachusetts) Noack to work". It seems Poronto to Amherst (possibly Amherst, back in Amherst by the following evening. » ortly afterwards with the na LIE departed with the. Volkswagon bus and — . u : The gathering broke up sh s TONGS departing by taxi to the airport, a 0 kee Yee or nee Dati ene tenet epee . oe | *pHTpPS family, LIE mentioned that he had a bly he and his family) would be travelling in » Arrangements were i that "they" .(presuma © At in their move across country tq the West. ' made for LIS and the PHIPPS. to meet PU Chao-min for dinner ab ae. ° I local restaurant later that same evening. , De bo ‘Before leaving, LIE provided PU Chao-min with a | » telephone numoer for Susan WINE (WONG } (WARREN ) (phonetic) in New. York at 212-CH2-0021. . He described her as an ardent Maoist.- —_ ae Anéther reliable source confirmed that on the. /< evening of September 2, 1970 PU Chao-min and LO Yi-ching, and their . wives; . 2 at a restaurant in Ottawa together wita a-caucasion ~ couple sheir four children. We presume this was the PHIPPS - family erred to above but there was no indication that Mr. LIE . “‘aecompanied them as. planned. 'won ms Hy 7 te lly vo further identiry Mr. L TONG were ron-productive. Lo ore) aus ‘Attempts loca Mr. and Mrs. i (phonetic) and _ cape Bat tn oa PRE tein einen eT ene eee ~ Docld: 32293957 Page 93