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"111 Sutter Street San Francisco, California SECRET oe . "June 15, 1943 "Mr e Joseph Barnes | Office of War Information 224 West S7th Street | ‘ New York, NeYe . "Dear Joe: "In your capacity as a member of our Personnel Security Committee are certain things which you ought to know about Chinese personnel. a delicate matter for me to tell you about these things because of my recent official connection with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheka: For that reason I am marking this communication secrete "When we recently reduced the number of our Chinese staff in New York it was quite obvious that there was going to be trouble and that this trouble would take the form of accusations against the remaining personnels The fact is that certain of the personnel with whose services we dispensed had connections outside the offices This leads diractly into the main questions It is extremely important from the point of view of security that intelligence information should not leak out of our office through our Chinese personnel. It is an open secret in Washington that the security of various Chinese agencies there is deplorable. Any pipeline from our office to any of those agencies is not a pipeline but practically an open conduit. However, it is not only a question of Chinese government agenciese There is also a well organized and well financed organization among the Chinese in this country connected with Wang Ching-wel This can be traced back to the history of the C nes@ Revolution as a wholes: To present it in the fewest possible words Sun at“sen was largely fin eq for many years by Chinese living abroad, Not oly —sen bubsifane } neweei had close connections among the overseas Chinese. However much“he is*a traitor now the fact must be recognized that Wang Ching-weli is a veteran of Chinese politics with comections which he hag nourished for many years among Chinese communities abroad, including those in the United States, Vii ng-wel, the Japanese puppets Thie scan hea L 27 ae nna cama memati coe ges