Richard Fectow person
also: Factow, Richard Fectow
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China held
Richard Fectow host_asserted
“When another of the non-aligned leaders, Premier Wu Nu of Burma, visited Beijing in 1957, he offered to intercede for the Americans. The Chinese indicated that they were willing to release the imprisoned CIA officers John Downey and Richard…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 46:43
Allen Dulles refused_to_release
Richard Fectow host_asserted
“So China offered to release the political prisoners if we would allow them to send journalists to report on the progress that China had made. John Foster Dulles said no. They were left there for two decades, 20 years. Dulles turned to Socca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 47:13
China released
Richard Fectow documented
“Thus, an opening relation with China, for example, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, who rears his head again, who was Kissinger's deputy, another CIA guy, made a series of 1971 secret trips to prepare Nixon's way for a ceremonial visit t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:05:17
Richard Fectow member_of
CIA documented
“They parachuted into Manchuria in July. That November, Downey and Richard Fectow, with the CIA only five months at that time, plus a civil air transport flight crew, were forced down in China while attempting to recover an agent who went th…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 1:05:10
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who joined the CIA that year after graduation, assigned to set up resistance in Kirin, K-I-R-I-N. Downey visited Saipan in 1952 to select a four-man team who were going to be dropped in July. In November, Downey and Richard Fechtau, F-E-C-T…
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and was a part of the Civil Air Transport flight crew, was forced down in China when attempting to recover an agent parachuted into Cairn to observe the team at work. The failure of this November 29th flight and capture of Downey and Bechte…
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Burmese Prime Minister offered to intercede for the Americans during an official visit to Peking. He did so, and the Chinese agreed to release the captured CIA agent John Downey and Richard Fectow in exchange for nothing more than Americans…
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They parachuted into Manchuria in July. That November, Downey and Richard Fectow, with the CIA only five months at that time, plus a civil air transport flight crew, were forced down in China while attempting to recover an agent who went th…
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CIA officers were supposed to be involved in any of these operations. The two CIA men were eventually brought before a Chinese show trial, along with a B-29 crew that had been captured months later. Downey was maintained in a prison until 1…
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When another of the non-aligned leaders, Premier Wu Nu of Burma, visited Beijing in 1957, he offered to intercede for the Americans. The Chinese indicated that they were willing to release the imprisoned CIA officers John Downey and Richard…
▶ 1:05:17
Thus, an opening relation with China, for example, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, who rears his head again, who was Kissinger's deputy, another CIA guy, made a series of 1971 secret trips to prepare Nixon's way for a ceremonial visit t…
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The president used a news conference to admit publicly for the first time that Downey and Factow had been CIA officers and apologized for their presence in China. Downey was released in March of 73. I've read that book about, there's actual…