Subject: CBS Incident Committee Special Report

From: [email-masked] (Miao Ye)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 16:22:40 GMT

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(Daily News, one of the largest English paper in NYC, interviewed Mi Mi Sr.,
the coordinator of CBS Incident Committee on June 14 and  has covered CBS 
incident.)

The following is typed in By Mi Mi Sr. (Lin Huang)

Daily News, June 15, 1994 Page 3
Chung-lash For report about spies
By Ying Chan
Daily News Staff Writer

Some Chinese-Americans who were once loyal fans of Connie Chung are charging 
her with betrayal.
The flap began last month, when the CBS anchorwoman, in an evening news 
segment, reported on an alleged extensive network of Chinese spies in the 
United States.
"Everyday, planeloads of Chinese citizens arrive legally in the U.S., ordinary 
people," she said. "But  to the Chinese government, some of them maybe future 
spies..."
The report included an interview with Nicolas Eftimiades, the author of a book 
about the trend, who told Chung that Chinese spies are like "fish on the 
bottom of the ocean," who waited years to surface.
Since the May 19 broadcast, more than 600 Chinese students at universities 
around the country have signed protest letters to the network.
And at a press conference Saturday, a dozen Chinatown groups called for an 
apology.
Yesterday, Chung - sounding mellow but non apologetic - called the furor a 
misunderstanding.
"We were doing the story based on information from U.S. intelligent experts," 
said the anchorwoman.
"The dispute should be with the intelligent experts," she said of the reports 
by U.S. Counter-intelligence specialists.
But critics charged that Chung has simplified the issue in her broadcast and 
misled viewers.
"CBS suggested that every Chinese in this country could be spies for China," 
said Lin Huang of the Bronx, a City College graduate student spearheading the 
protest. "This is like crying the yellow peril again."

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