In 1979, Deng Xiaoping became the first Communist Chinese leader to come to the U.S. and visit the White House. But before Deng left Washington, he made one more stop — one that’s never been reported until now. (hereandnow)
Kissinger was sharing top-secret information from the CIA about the Soviet military — and no one but Nixon and the people in the room knew what he was divulging.
Through all of this upheaval, China and the United States' common enemy stayed the same: the Soviet Union. 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.
For decades, no one knew about this trip. The Great Wager host Jane Perlez confirmed the information through CIA sources and in an interview with Former Defense Sec. Robert Gates. Deng’s first stop was the command center. Intelligence officials let him see maps from American satellites, detailing the places where the U.S. and China planned to put the spy stations.Deng then went up to the seventh floor, the inner sanctum, where he was greeted by the new director of the CIA,. Turner was a reformer, who had overhauled the CIA since the days of Nixon. Still, when it came to China, he was staying on the path that Nixon had forged.
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