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- ↑ FBI Report: Institute of Pacific Relations, Internal Security – C, November 4, 1944 (FBI file: Institute of Pacific Relations, Section 1 [ permanent dead link ], PDF p. 45)
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- ↑ Yuwu Song (July 18, 2006). Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations. McFarland. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-7864-9164-3 . Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Klehr and Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case, 28ff.
- ↑ Klehr and Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case, 50ff.
- ↑ Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, 1950, appendix, p. 2051.
- ↑ FBI Amerasia file, Section 52.
- ↑ New York Times: "FBI Seizes 6 as Spies, , Two in State Dept.", June 7, 1945, accessed April 19, 2011
- ↑ Robert P. Newman, The Cold War Romance of Lillian Helman and John Melby (University of North Carolina Press, 1989), 68
- ↑ M. Stanton Evans, McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine , Human Events, May 8, 2003.