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Fears for Deng's life on US trip
By Li Xinran |
January 6, 2009, Tuesday
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DENG Xiaoping, the late Chinese leader who was the father of the country's reform and opening policy, may have been the target of an assassination plot during his visit to the United States in 1979, according to a former top security official.
The plot was revealed in a book by Ling Yun, who was Deng's special assistant and a former state security minister, China News Service reported yesterday.
Concerns were raised during Deng's planned meeting with US President Jimmy Carter at the White House shortly after the People's Republic of China and the United States established diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979.
China's intelligence agency received information that spies from Taiwan planned to hire snipers to shoot Deng during his nine-day trip.
Some US-based extremist organizations also had hatched plots to "frustrate" Deng's visit, Ling said in his book.
A task force of senior officials, including vice premiers Geng Biao, Fang Yi and Chen Muhua, Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Xiuquan were responsible for ensuring Deng's security in the US. The group decided to dispatch an eight-member team led by Ling as Deng's personal guards.
Ling's group went to US on January 12. Its members met their US counterparts and Chai Zemin, head of China's liaison to US, at the White House.
Deng left Beijing on January 28 and met with Carter at the White House the next morning. During the US president's welcome address on the South Lawn, two protestors rushed out from journalists at the scene, waving their fists and shouting.
The protestors were immediately stopped and taken away by plain-clothed US Secret Service agents, the report said.
During Deng's visit to Houston, Texas, on February 2, a member of the Ku Klux Klan ran toward Deng but was wrestled down by an agent. And hundreds of protestors were reported to be gathered outside Deng's hotel or along his travel routes.
US authorities then dispatched riot officers and mounted police the next day to guard near Deng's hotel and the venues he visited.
Deng left Seattle on February 5 and returned unharmed to China on February 8.
The plot was revealed in a book by Ling Yun, who was Deng's special assistant and a former state security minister, China News Service reported yesterday.
Concerns were raised during Deng's planned meeting with US President Jimmy Carter at the White House shortly after the People's Republic of China and the United States established diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979.
China's intelligence agency received information that spies from Taiwan planned to hire snipers to shoot Deng during his nine-day trip.
Some US-based extremist organizations also had hatched plots to "frustrate" Deng's visit, Ling said in his book.
A task force of senior officials, including vice premiers Geng Biao, Fang Yi and Chen Muhua, Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Xiuquan were responsible for ensuring Deng's security in the US. The group decided to dispatch an eight-member team led by Ling as Deng's personal guards.
Ling's group went to US on January 12. Its members met their US counterparts and Chai Zemin, head of China's liaison to US, at the White House.
Deng left Beijing on January 28 and met with Carter at the White House the next morning. During the US president's welcome address on the South Lawn, two protestors rushed out from journalists at the scene, waving their fists and shouting.
The protestors were immediately stopped and taken away by plain-clothed US Secret Service agents, the report said.
During Deng's visit to Houston, Texas, on February 2, a member of the Ku Klux Klan ran toward Deng but was wrestled down by an agent. And hundreds of protestors were reported to be gathered outside Deng's hotel or along his travel routes.
US authorities then dispatched riot officers and mounted police the next day to guard near Deng's hotel and the venues he visited.
Deng left Seattle on February 5 and returned unharmed to China on February 8.
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