COMMENTS Date: 12/08/04 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION Peleased under the John AGENCY : CIA Kennedy RECORD NUMBER : 104-10064-10027 Assassination Records AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A (44 USC 2107 Note). ro rn ere nn renee nn ase#: NW 55199 Date: DOCUMENT INFORMATION 6-07-2017 AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : C/CI/SO TO : TITLE ROUTING SLIP, MEMO AND NEWS ARTICLE RE VISIT TO COMMUNIST CHINA IN MAY 1971 DATE 05/17/1971 ; PAGES 5 SUBJECTS PRC PRESS CLIPPING DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER CLASSIFICATION SECRET RESTRICTIONS 1B 3 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/20/94 JFK10 : F1B 1994.04.20.19:23:45:370031 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10064-10027 HW 53199 Bocld: 32397579 Page 1
pote <3 », ,- batch _ en onal) Trays ; = ee DUTING AND RECORD SMEcT ¥ sy C1/SO Summary on: Visit to Communist China May 1971 FROM: ., EXTENSION [| NO. EX. 7998 j ~ C/CI/SO ROber 5847 |S 47 May 1971 TO: (Officer designctian, room number, and building} DATE OFFICER'S | COMMENTS (Number each comment to. show from whor RECEIVED SNITIALS to whom. Draw a line across column after each cement GH/S8 Intarzaj Use Cnly This information is not to b disseminated outside CI/SO without prior approval of Chief, Special Operations Toc NY TIMES ARTICLE Date: l1May 1971 ..:. Filed: attached _ Originated by: RH. TYPED ) by “3 oe wat :7 “ yt ge ee oe , Group, ci Staff. . ; ~ SOURCE: ~~ Cryptonyn: overt Field Station: ACTION: ron pees 99" roan pee rar x ¥ x i . 74 iv Subject file kChina Trai DISTRIBUTION: % F=-JEX NUMERICAL FILE “(recor KP by _ date _— -_ > », : 4 . 4 7] 7 Other: ; a . \ VR: IMPUTTING | —_ C80 inter agl Use Only 6 Gis “Rs SECRET aa CONFIDENTIAL © [] RITEWlaL Oo URCLASSIFLED . USE OHL HW 53199 Docld:32397579 Page 2 - ae mo a yp egy~ . fh fe] PT] = ia wd o _ oN i
wagon = a or oereenenenaaarnn ae tet ea RAEN Att tA AAA REE a ESSERE aS RASiailtt nathan atitnean me eee om rs . _ ¢ GALSTOH, tens “William aka Arthur William GOLDSTEIN (201-0922298) Born 21 April 1920, New York, New York, Biology professor, Yale Univ. In 1952 studied at Medicinska Nobelinstitutet in Stockholm, reported to have been & communist sympathizer and to have associated with various CPUSA front organizations, During 1960-61 traveled on a Fulbright grant for a yearts study at the Comonveal ths entific and Industrial Research Organization; Cefberra, Australia. engaged in research work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, traveled to Poland on invitation received from an official Polish Academy of Science 3 Was to attend the International Biochemical Congress, Moscow, on invitation received from the Executive Conni.ttee of the Vth International Congress of Biochemistry. In 1969 acted as host at Yalé . to Soviet Nationals visiting under the provisions of the East West Exchange Agreement in the science field, Was invitfea to attend War Crimes Commission in Stockholm in Noy 70. His wife, Dale Judith Was reported to be a member of the Youth Branch of the CP in 5. Haven and in 195) reported to be a member «ome, CA IHfo. Prem MUOEAY,) SIGNER, Ethan R, (Sthan-Singer) grec tae Associate professor, 3 biolosy . . MIT, Rag Cheek ~ Signer of HIT in Hanoi mid-April 71 with Arthur Galston of Yale, In the summer 1969 taught in Cuba, Name appeared inNY Times, 3 Nay 1970 yon list "Faculty Committee Against Vietnam War" ~., ‘ECKSTEIN, Alexander Professor, Economics, Center for Chinese Studies 3 Univ. of Hichigan, HW 53199 Hember, Board of Directors, National Committee on United States-China Relations, ote Docld: 32397579 Page 4
cos, Robert Geophysicist Robert Stephen COE. ~” Bozrn 20 February 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Frank 7 Coe 5 (201-16993)) menber of Soviet espionage group active in Wash. D.C. in early O's, GEOE Attended Harvard University 1956-61; admitted to University of California asa graduate student in geophysics in 1961; and in 195) was: advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D, In "1966 was atfiliated with Geological Depts Univ. of California, [ A uj FJu yous ite cHOUARD, Dr. Pierre Professor of Botany at Sorbonne Univ. Paris, France : ~ (201-7682 held by CI/sz) _MW_53199 .DocId:32397579 Page 5
me ee: Said Either to Be There of | About to GoFrom Hanoi . Lm “eyo TL . wee . . . : . _ By WALTER SULLIVAN -Two. American biclogists are Lo . ae there ‘from Haisoi, . the North ~. |. |, -S|Vietnamese’ capital. A third 2": American, a Seophysicist from the University of California at ‘Santa Cruz, is also said to have received ‘permission to visit Peking shortiy. ae The biologists are Dr. Arthur W. Galston, profeessor of biol- ogy at Yale University, and Dr. . {Ethan Signer, an associate. ” professor _ of biology at the {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, -.. 2° The geophysicist is Dr. Robert Coe, whose father” has been jliving in Peking. Dr. Galston ist - Soup 42 specialist in plant physiology . '. who has beea an outspoker a7 0: deritie of American defoliation .% 2° | sin Vietnam. Dr. Signer, a spe- “i#°; ",° ‘[eialist in the genetics of bac- _ 2. ‘+> | tHterfal viruses, has also been an (ogo l. dactive’ eritic of -the wer in _ Few, if any, American scien- tists have been able to visit thel Chinese mainland since thel, —__- Continued on Page 13, Column 1 ———__. WW 53195 ‘DocEd: 32397579: :.’ those of the United States, not- *” such fields as astronomy arch- REPORTED TE GRE ‘Continuzd Frem Teze 1, Col. 7 Communists tosts coatre! in 1949. For a number of years Scholarly jouruats were ex changed, but in* about 1935, ‘with the onset of the Cultural Revolution this Now was cut > Off. In fact, publicztion of wany journals in China was appar. ently suspended dusing that . period of turmutt. However, a trickle of pub- ‘ lications out of China has con- tinued, primarily to scientists in countries other than the United States. Thus there has een a limited flow of infor. mation on developments ia ’ eology and biochemistry. Some Western Visitors There have also been some Scientific visitors from Western nations whose relations with China were less hostile than ably Britain, France and Can- ada. In recent years such visits have become rare, However, it is reported that Dr. Pierre Chouard, professnz of betany at “the Sorboane in Paris, has now received clearance for a trip. ‘The sudden opening of China to visits by American journal- ists a few weeks azo has raised hopes for a breakdown of the bartiers against scientists. Last Dr. Arthur W. Galston a py ington ee]e eal Ob OCH YM iy OU, veins with Une Peaple’s Re-, matic of China ract in Wash. Mton {0 consider, possible ace, eerie conmiitlee was headed by Dr. Johu Lindheck, dircetar| of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University, until tis death in January, and a ncw chairman has not been € roscr. It represents the National Acad emy of Sciences and o er Icarned socictics. Under consi eration by the committee 15 an invitation to some Chinese st entists to meclings to be 1c in this country next suminer. ; Another group intcresic a scholarly exchanges is the i a tional Committee .on Unite fates-China Relations. it is headed by Dr. Alexander Eck- stcin of the University of Michi- gan, an authority on Chinese economics, and includes busi- nessmen and retired govcrn- ment officials as well 2s schol- eof major importance to the ‘scholarly community will be the restoration of exchanges of spc- cialized journals. Visitors to China have found American: journals on file at research cen- ters, but the flow has been once way and, 2pparently, of a | ited nature. en oa