52. Telegram 429 to Geneva1
429. For Johnson.
Your 357. FYI as of now US Treasury Foreign Asset Control Regulations prohibit remittance dollars to US from Communist China for travel or other purposes unless special Treasury license obtained. A few licenses have been granted for student travel from funds blocked in US. In these cases Treasury required evidence that traveler of good character and acceptable political orientation and that close relatives mainland China believed non-sympathetic Communist regime.
If arrangement authorized Paragraph 11 your instructions should materialize, appropriate understanding with Treasury will be sought.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/8–855. Secret; Priority. Drafted by McConaughy. The time of transmission is illegible.↩