TOP SECRET 1. PROCEDURE FOR HANDLING CHINESE COMMUNIST DEFECTORS IN THE FAR EAST THE COMMITTEE had before them a minute by the Secretary+ referring to a report≠ by the Joint Intelligence Committee, Far East, recommending a procedure for handling Chinese Communist defectors in the Far East, to which preliminary consideration had already been given by the Sub-Committee on Defectors. The Sub-Committee on Defectors had invited Departments to comment on that report and those comments already received were attached to the minute by the Secretary.