{"id":1384,"date":"2023-11-30T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:34:04","slug":"sept-21-conference-on-u-s-clandestine-operations-against-china-in-the-early-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/2023\/11\/30\/sept-21-conference-on-u-s-clandestine-operations-against-china-in-the-early-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 21, 2023:  Conference on &#8220;U.S. Clandestine Operations Against China in the Early Cold War,&#8221; honoring BU alumnus Richard Fecteau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZloxW0myxPs\">Conference proceedings (as video-recorded)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On September 21, 2023, IHI sponsored a BU conference on the topic of \u201cClandestine Operations Against China during the Early Cold War.\u201d \u00a0This conference, in part, honored the service and sacrifice of CIA officer Richard \u201cDick\u201d Fecteau, a Lynn, MA native and Boston University (BU) alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Dick <span>Fecteau, a Massachusetts hero,<\/span> is one of the CIA\u2019s most highly decorated officers.\u00a0 He spent twenty years in a Communist Chinese prison enduring horrible conditions when a CIA clandestine operation into China, in which he was a participant, went horribly wrong in 1952.\u00a0 The Chinese released Fecteau from prison in 1972.\u00a0 He retired from the CIA and became the assistant athletic director at BU in 1976.\u00a0 Upon his retirement from BU, he enjoys a quiet retirement in his hometown.\u00a0 On September 23, BU honored Mr. Fecteau with its highest alumni award at a banquet on campus.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/files\/2023\/11\/Fecteau-in-CHICOM-propaganda-photo.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"banner_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/files\/2023\/11\/Downey-Fecteau-2013-at-CIA.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"170\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above Left:\u00a0 CIA officers Richard Fecteau and John Downey with a captured American B-29 crew in a Chinese prison in this staged Communist Chinese propaganda photo from the 1950s.\u00a0 The second person from the left is Downey; Fecteau is standing at the right side of the table, reaching down for a meal.\u00a0 (CIA)<\/p>\n<p>Above Right:\u00a0 John Downey (left) and Richard Fecteau at a CIA award ceremony in 2013.\u00a0 (CIA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference proceedings (as video-recorded) On September 21, 2023, IHI sponsored a BU conference on the topic of \u201cClandestine Operations Against China during the Early Cold War.\u201d \u00a0This conference, in part, honored the service and sacrifice of CIA officer Richard \u201cDick\u201d Fecteau, a Lynn, MA native and Boston University (BU) alumnus. Dick Fecteau, a Massachusetts hero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ihi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}