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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 letters. After the paper was placed in.the envelope, He Qing-Nian used glue to seal the envelope. On the spur of the moment he also took out his personal ivory stamp and affixed his stamp along the horizontal.seam of the envelope. After this was verified by the other observers, the envelope was placed on the desk in front of "Zz", Being watched all the time, "Z" picked up a ball point pen and on the front of the envelope wrote "How are you? Thank you teacher." Then he took He Qing- Nian's stamp and stamped the back of the envelope forcefully several times. The location of these stamps is shown in Diagram 2. - When this was completed, "2" waited a little while, and then handed the envelope to the observers. The time was 5:15. Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Stamps 1, 2, 3, and 4 were on the face of the envelope (solid lines) and stamps 5 and 6 were on the paper inside the envelope (dotted lines). Results: The observers inspected the envelope, and verified that the envelope had not been tampered with. Then the envelope was slit open across the face along the middle line. The paper was taken out, and it was discovered that on the paper was written "How are you? Thanks, teacher." There were also two stamps on the bottom. (See Diagram 3). On the back of the paper were still the words "Z" had written earlier "How are you? Thank you. teacher", as well as his signature, thus proving that it was the same sheet of paper that had originally been placed in the envelope so no switch had taken place. The side of. the paper with lines showed two stamp markings (both were the marks of the ivory stamp). By comparing the handwriting it can be seen that the characters on what had -23- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8