Re: KW (Taiwan) Policy & Linkage

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Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
> 
*  Impressive analysis of the US policy
> in the Far East at the time! It is quite
> clear that the Taiwan issue was closely
> tied with the developments in Korea.

There were other  related issues and determinants,
including public opinion polls regards the 
Truman administration, which showed folks
felt foreign policy needed some changes and
clarification. That was probably the next most
important domestic issue not covered in discussion. 
> 
> Add to the list of pro-Chiang figures, the
> China Lobby & pro-Rhee lobby in the US
> at the time! 

Yes. Tried to limit extent of the response
but to get the main American actors.

*   I understand that the former
 OSS boss Donovan was deeply involved in
 the pro-Chiang China Lobby. I wonder what
 kind of advice or life-saving plan he devised for
 Chiang & Rhee.

With replacement of OSS with SSU, one of the items
on its intelligence collection charter war:
"On all aspects of the Civil War in China". 

Best sources dealing with Donovan include:
1] RG 263, CIA papers, Troy Files, Box 6, Folder 20
(various items, incl. "Park's Report".
2]  Thomas Troy, DONOVAN AND THE CIA: A HISTORY
OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CIA ((1981, Univ. Public.
of America)
3] Anthony Brown, WILD BILL DONOVAN: THE LAST HERO
(1982; Times Books) 
4] Stanley Lovell, OF SPIES AND STRATEGEMS.

(Lovell claims Tai Li was killed by an OSS "anerometer", nearly
all of which were built and shipped to China. Edwin Putzell, 
Donovan's second-in-command, claims OSS was involved in
his death as well. If OSS was willingto get rid of Chiang's intelligence
chief, their successors were almost certainly willing to get rid
of Chiang.

General Marshall also wanted the China operations closed down,
which meant "SSU/China" by that time (May '46) meant 
pressuring Wedemeyer. Plan to kill China contingent was
veteod by Army  Chief of Staff,  Dwight Eisenhower. 

*  Are there any private papers of
 Donovan available to the public?
>  Best sources - 
 
1] Best place to start is Record Group 226, National Archives - 
6,000 cubic feet (give or take a few hundred) of records !
>From New York, you could go down on your lunch hour! 
Heh, heh.

2] RG 38, Vice Admiral Milton E. Miles (USN), Naval Group China,
Entry NHC-75, National Archives II.

3] James Donovan Papers, Hoover Institution, Standford University,
California. 

4]  and,  Milton Miles Papers,  (as above)

All deal closely with OSS and the like. Good hunting.

Keith Jacobs