MIM Notes 211                   June 1, 2000

New MIM Radio Program Release 

The MIM Radio Program has released Prisoners of Liberation 
interview on CD and the internet. In 1951, Allyn Rickett was an 
American student in revolutionary China. He was also a spy. Along 
with his wife Adele, he was arrested and spent four years in a 
Chinese prison undergoing a process of criticism and self-
criticism. Gradually, he came to realize that what he did was 
spying, and that it was hurting the Chinese people. In 1995, MIM 
and 14 other organizations brought Allyn Rickett to the University 
of Massachusetts for the first Prison Awareness Week. He spoke on 
his experience in revolutionary China where the government used 
study, self-criticism and labor to rehabilitate its enemies. After 
his lecture, this interview was conducted by the Undercurrents 
Program on WMUA 91.1FM. This interview is available at 
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/radio.html in mp3 format or on 
CDfrom MIM for $10. A photocopy of Allyn and Adele Rickett's book 
Prisoners of Liberation: Four Years In A Chinese Communist Prison 
is also available from MIM for $10.