ROUTING SLIP, MEMO AND NEWS ARTICLE RE VISIT TO COMMUNIST CHINA IN MAY 1971
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Document date: 05/17/1971
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ROUTING SLIP, MEMO AND NEWS ARTICLE RE VISIT TO

COMMUNIST CHINA IN MAY 1971

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EX - 7998

17 May 1971

SUBJECT: Visit ta Comunist China - Way 1971 - By

1. GAISTON, arühur William aka GOLDSTEIN, Arthur Willian

2. SINGER, Ethan R.

3. COE, Pobert

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CALSTON, Arthur William aka Arthur William GOLDSTEIN (201-022298)

Born 21 April 1920, New York, New York, Biology professor, Yale Univ.

In 1952 studied atledicinska Nobelinstitutet in Stockholm, reported to have

been a communist sympathizer and to have associated with various CPUSA front

organizations. During 1950-51 traveled on a Fulbright grant for a year!s

study at the Commonwealthientific and Industrial Research Organisation;

Calberra, Australia. Engaged in research work at the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, traveled to Poland on invitatio received from an official Polisn

Acadeny of Science, was to attend the International Biochemical Congress,

Moscoit, on invitation received fron the Ixecutive Committee of the

Vth International Congress of Biochemistry. In 1969 acted as host at Iale

to Soviet lationals visiting under the provisions of the East-llest Exchange

Agreement in the science field. Was invited to attend Mar Crimes Commission

in Stockholm in Nov 70. His wife, Dale Judith ilas reported to be a member

of the Youth Branch of the CP in New Haven and in 1954 reported to be a member

as the In are CAll info, froM BUREAU.)

SIGNER, Ethan R. (Ethan-Singer) m

Associate professor, biology,

MIT. Rag Check - Signer of MIT in Hanoi mid-April 71 with Arthur Galston of Tale.

In the sumer 1959 taught in Cuba. Name appeared In NY Times 3 "ay

1970 on List "Faculty Comnittee Against Vietnam War"

Professor, Economics, Center for Chinese Studies, Unit.

ECKSTEIN, Alexander

of Michigan.

Member, Board of Directors, National Comnittee on United States-China

Relations.

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COE,

Robert Geophysicist Robert Stephen COE.

Born 20 February 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Frank

Coe (201-169934) member of Soviet espionage group active in Wash. D.C. in

early 40's. INUIl Attended Harvard University 1956-61; adnitted to University

of California as a graduate student in geophysics in 1951; and in 1954 was

advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. In 1966 was alfiliated with Geological

Dept., Unir, of California (All Bureau info.)

CHOUARD, Dr. Pierre Professor of Botany at Sorbonne Univ. Paris, France

(201-768124 held by CI/SI)

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= WILL VISTY CHINA:

Biologists Critical of War

Said Either to Be There or

About to Go From Hanoi

Sy WALTER SULLIVAY

Two American biologists are

reported by their colleagues to

be in China or about to go

there from

Hairoi, the North

Vietnamese

capital.

d third

American, a scophysicist frcm

the University of California at

Santa Cruz, is also said to have

received

permission to visit

Peking shortiy.

The biologists are Dr. Arthur

W. Galston, professor of biol-

ogy at Yale University, and Dr.

Ethan

Signer,

an

associate

professor. of biology at the

Massachusetis Institute

Technology.

The geophysicist is Dr. Robert

Сос,

whose father has been

living in Peking. Dr. Galston is

a specialist in plant physiology

i sino has been an outspoken

critic of American defoliation

in Vietnam. Dr. Signer, a spe-

cialist in the genetics of bac-

terial viruses, has also been an

active critic of the war in

Vietnam.

Few, if any, American scien-

tists have been able to visit the

Chinese mainland since the

Continued on Page 13, Column 1

RIN'ORTEDAT CHINA

Continued Free Fasc 8, Col. 7

Commitinit's tost coniro! in

1949. For a nuinter of jicais

scholarly journa's

changed, but in about 1955.

• with the orsct of thie Cultural

Revolution this flois sias cui

off. In fact, publication O! mazy

journals in China was apFa8-

ently suspended daring that

• period of turniult.

However, a trickle of pub-

lications out of China has co?-

tinued, primarily to scientists

in countries

other than the

United Stales. Thus tiere has

been a limited now of into.-

mation

on developments in

such fields as astrenomy, aich-

cology and biochemistry.

: Some Western Visitors

There have also been somc

scientific visitors from Westein

nations whose relations with

China were less hostile than

those of the United States, not-

ably britain, France and Can-

ada. In iccent years such visils

have become rare. However, it

is reported that Dr.

Picite

Chouard, professor of botany ai

The Sorbonne in Paris, has now

received cicarance for a trip.

The sudden opening of China

to visits by American journal-

ists a fes weeks ago has raised

hopes for a bicalidown of the

barriers against scientists. Last

nications with thie. People's licy

public: of China rict in Wal-

ingeon to consider possible ic.

tirml..

The commitlee sis hicadedl

bự Dr. Jolm Lindlock, dircetr

of the Last Asian Instilute off

Column University, until his

dcall in January,

and a nor

chairman has not been chosen.

It represcnis luc National Acadi

emy

of

Scicnces

and otlier

learned sociclics. Under consid

cratinn by the committee is an

invitation to some Chincse sti-

enlisis to mcclingo to he held

in this country next sumner.

Another group interesied in

scholarly exchanges is the Na-

sional Committec

on Uniled

Siates-China Relations. It is

headed by Dr. Alexander Eck-

sicin of the University of Michi-

дап.

an autliorite on Chincse

ccononlies, and includes bust

nessnich

and retired gorcrn-

ment officials as well as schol-

ers.

Of major importance to the

scholarly contmunity will be the

restoration of exchanges of spc-

cialized journals.

Visitors

to

China hare found Amcrican

journals on file at research con-

ters, but the flow has been onc-

way and, apparently, of a lini-

ited naturc.

Di. Arinur W. Galston

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