CIA headquarters was basically empty.ĭeng’s first stop was the command center. He arrived at the headquarters in the dead of night. They found some on Deng’s last night in Washington. They scanned his schedule for “white time” - time Deng was scheduled to meet with his own Chinese officials, away from Americans. Through her reporting, Perlez discovered that after Deng asked for the meeting, the CIA worked to arrange for a time when no American official would notice what Deng was doing. The Great Wager host Jane Perlez confirmed the information through CIA sources and in an interview with Former Defense Sec. Few foreign leaders had ever been invited into the inner sanctum of American intelligence.įor decades, no one knew about this trip. hadn't even officially recognized until a few weeks before. He was welcomed warmly at the White House and The Kennedy Center.īut before Deng left Washington, he made one more stop - one that’s never been reported before.ĭeng asked to visit the CIA headquarters in Virginia, a substantial request for a man representing a country that the U.S. Three weeks later, Deng traveled to Washington, D.C., to celebrate - the first time a Communist Chinese leader had ever been to the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China had agreed to recognize each other and establish diplomatic relations.
tentatively agreed in 1979 to operate joint spy stations, run by the CIA and by the intelligence arm of the Chinese military.īut even though Nixon’s trip was so successful, the Americans still hadn't established formal diplomatic relations with China - and China wouldn’t commit to building spy stations with the Americans until they did.įinally, in January of 1979, President Jimmy Carter announced that the U.S. intelligence officials determined that one of the best places to spy on the Soviets is from high on the mountains of Western China, not far from the Soviet border and close to an important Soviet test site.Ĭhina and the U.S. was looking for means to confirm that the Soviet Union was abiding by arms control agreements. Deng was more open to reform than Mao – and shared the U.S.’ anti-Soviet sentiment.īy the late 1970s, the Soviets had almost as many nuclear weapons as the Americans, and the U.S. The new leader of China was Deng Xiaoping. Through all of this upheaval, China and the United States' common enemy stayed the same: the Soviet Union. Two years later, Mao Zedong died, a huge event on the world stage. In 1974, Nixon left the White House in disgrace. In the years following Nixon's big trip, both countries underwent substantial changes in leadership. This was just a taste of bigger things to come between the CIA and China.
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