Summary of Information on China Lobby

DECLASSIFIED DU HARRY ARCHIVES NATIONAL RECORDS TRUMAN AND LIBRARY E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 SERVICE" GOVERNMENT By NLT- HL NARS, Date 7-1d-fe SUMMARY OF INFORMATION ON CHINA LOBBY 1. Alfred Kohlberg is quoted by Ed Harris of the St. Louis Post Dispatch as stating that he charges the cost of printing pro-China propaganda and the cost of publishing his newspaper against the operations of his importing company, Alfred Kohlberg, Inc. He states that this includes the cost of material sent regularly to 2,000 publishers and editors. Bureau of Internal Revenue should check income tax returns of Alfred Kohlberg and Alfred Kohlberg, Inc., for possible violation of income tax law. 2. Commerce International Company, 16 Rector Street, New York, President - S. G. Fassoulis. This company has done extensive procurement of munitions of war and military supplies for the Nationalist Government of China. This company has a number of subsidiaries in various parts of the world. The State Department has information to the effect that this company tried to procure steel rails in Germany for the Chinese Communists. This should be checked by Commerce Department, FBI and CIA. One of the directors of Commerce International Company is a Mary Morrissey, of J. H. Whitney and Company, New York. 3. A Mr. Norman Page, Consultant for the Chinese Newspaper Service, resides in a Washington hotel and allegedly receives a salary of $30,000 a year as a propagandist for the Chinese Nationalist Government. His original name was James Black Depuy. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1906. He is a close associate and intimate friend of a Mrs. Frances Moody of Galveston, Texas, who maintains an apartment in New York. Hor father-in-law, William Moody, is an oil tycoon. We have information to the effect that Page has recently been going through the South SECRET