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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (193321)	7/26/2006 1:31:28 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 281500

One good journalist, one bad...CNN Detained Journalist Entrapped by Bogus Promise of Zhao Papers: Zong Fengming 2005.06.01 Ching Cheong is The Straits Times' chief China correspondent Photo: Straits Times via AFP HONG KONG—A key figure in the Chinese government’s spying allegations against Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong has said the detained Straits Times correspondent may have walked into a trap, and he denied ever arranging to give sensitive documents to Ching, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. “It’s not true. He wasn’t going to come and pick up the manuscript.... That never happened,” retired Communist Party official Zong Fengming told RFA’s Mandarin service. “If that happened then it was a trap set for him by someone else,” Zong, a longtime friend and comrade-in-arms of late ousted Party boss Zhao Ziyang, told reporter Yan Ming. Zong said the manuscript in question contained notes from 15 years’ of private and wide-ranging conversations with Zhao, who was stripped of all official posts and placed under house arrest for his sympathetic stance toward the student-led pro-democracy protests of 1989. “I can tell you for sure that he wasn’t going to come and pick up material from me, and that we never discussed such an arrangement. It’s not true. I don’t know Ching Cheong. I’ve never met him,” Zong said. rfa.org