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NY 100-13463 CHAO YI MIN and NY 6g4- Have Mutual Friends In Prague, in March, 1960, NY 694-s* conferred with ChAo yI mIn, member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Cp; who is also. a representative of the Chinese, CP to the "worid Marxist. Review', and one of the editors of the said publication.. During the conversation with Chao yI MIN, NY 694-s* and mIN reminisced about their past actiyities in.the cR. They discovered they had mutual friends, who MIN had known when he was in the Chinese cp underground in Shanghai before the revolution. These friends included HARRY KWIET and GRACE and MANNIE GRANICH.. MIN was particularly interested in obtaining information.about. Kwier and expressed sorrow to 1earn. that the latter is dead. Kwrer, the informant told MIN, had been a radio operator aboard a Us ship that was torpedoed by a German submarine. MIN stated that the GRANICHes were. not apparatus people, but had.edited a.magazine in Shanghai in 1934. He. said he had great respect for them. Aiso, MIN reported he had knOwn AGNES SMEDLEY and ANNA LOUISE STRONG. MIN disclosed that he is 57 years of age, married, and the father of a 35 year old son who works for the Chinese cp. MIn is also a grandfather. The informant remarked to MIN, "according to the Capitalist press, you (the Chinese).are now. "ltt M ang mou mny? Bugneu you NY 6g4-s* asked MIN whether, on the death of CHIaNG KAI SHEK, the Nationalist Government on Formosa (CHIAiG RA)SHSK'S) The informant said his.son was. a Lenin school studentsand a roommate of MoRRIs CHILDS.