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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172 SECRET Hanoi on 10 January, and two of them are scheduled to return to Nanning on 11 January. These Chinese Communist transports may be shuttling in supplies from Nanning, which was the terminal point of the earlier Chinese Communist airlift which ceased on 20 December. The five Soviet MI-4 helicopters which have been delayed at Nanning because of weather have been rescheduled to fly to Haiphong on 11 January. In remarks probably intended to encourage British opposition to any SEATO intervention in Laos, the editor of a Hong Kong Communist daily told a Chinese journalist on 2 January that he believed Communist China would not intervene in Laos unless US troops did first. The Chinese Communists probably are aware that the journalist is in contact with the British and feel that the remarks would reach London. With comments strikingly similar to those attributed to Peiping's Foreign Minister Chen Yi last October, the editor implied that Communist China would like to keep the Laotian conflict localized. The same impression has been conveyed by recent Chinese statements to the effect that the Laotian people should be left alone to settle their problems themselves. SECRET 11 Jan 61 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 5 Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172

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