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In July of 1938 IPR obtained a grant of $90,000 (equivalent to about [http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Data/US-Inflation/inf_calculator.cfm?first=90000&year1=1938&year2=2012 $1.5 million today]) from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] to perform a study of Asia. Lattimore wrote to IPR President [[Edward C. Carter]], “I think you were pretty cagey to turn over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi. They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended on to do it with the right touch."

In July of 1938 IPR obtained a grant of $90,000 (equivalent to about [http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Data/US-Inflation/inf_calculator.cfm?first=90000&year1=1938&year2=2012 $1.5 million today]) from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] to perform a study of Asia. Lattimore wrote to IPR President [[Edward C. Carter]], “I think you were pretty cagey to turn over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi. They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended on to do it with the right touch."

"Asiaticus" was the pen name of the veteran Polish-born Comintern agent in Shanghai, Moses Wolf Grzyb, alias M. G. Shippe (or Schiffe), alias Hans (or Heinz) Muëller (or Moëller). Lattimore frequently published articles under this pseudonym in the IPR journal ''Pacific Affairs'' during his tenure as editor in 1934-41.<ref>Robert P. Newman, ''[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e11129&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China]'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ISBN 0-520-07388-6, p. 452</ref> "Han-seng" was Chen Han-seng, a Soviet agent and member of Richard Sorge's Soviet spy ring.<ref>Maochen Yu, "[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACF1AE.pdf Chen Hansheng's Memoirs and Chinese Communist Espionage]," ''Cold War International History Project Bulletin'', 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), p. 274; Cf. Chiang, Yung-chen (2001). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=IRQFRG8O8JYC&pg=PA159 Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949]. Cambridge University Press. pp. 159–163. ISBN 9780521770149</ref> "Chi" was Chi Chao-ting, a U.S.-educated Red Chinese spy who had infiltrated the Kuomintang.<ref>Lifu Chen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=MOT_axUIWooC The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chen Li-fu, 1900-1993] (Hoover Press, 1994) ISBN 0817992723, p. 181; Arthur Herman, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator] (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 126)</ref>

"Asiaticus" was the pen name of the veteran Polish-born Comintern agent in Shanghai, Moses Wolf Grzyb, alias M. G. Shippe (or Schiffe), alias Hans (or Heinz) Muëller (or Moëller). Lattimore frequently published articles under this pseudonym in the IPR journal ''Pacific Affairs'' during his tenure as editor in 1934-41.<ref>Robert P. Newman, ''[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e11129&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China]'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ISBN 0-520-07388-6, p. 452</ref> "Han-seng" was Chen Han-seng, a Soviet agent and member of Richard Sorge's Soviet spy ring.<ref>Maochen Yu, "[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACF1AE.pdf Chen Hansheng's Memoirs and Chinese Communist Espionage]," ''Cold War International History Project Bulletin'', 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), p. 274; Cf. Chiang, Yung-chen (2001). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=IRQFRG8O8JYC&pg=PA159 Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949]''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 159–163. ISBN 9780521770149</ref> "Chi" was Chi Chao-ting, a U.S.-educated Red Chinese spy who had infiltrated the Kuomintang.<ref>Lifu Chen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=MOT_axUIWooC The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chen Li-fu, 1900-1993] (Hoover Press, 1994) ISBN 0817992723, p. 181; Arthur Herman, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator] (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 126)</ref>

Lattimore went on to write "my hunch is that it will pay to keep behind the official Chinese Communist position," and "as for the USSR -- back their international policy in general, hut without using their slogans, and above all without giving them or anybody else the impression of subservience."<ref>Senate Committee on the Judiciary, subcommittee on Internal Secutity, Report: [https://ia801406.us.archive.org/8/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit.pdf Institute of Pacific Relations] (1052), p. 119</ref>

Lattimore went on to write "my hunch is that it will pay to keep behind the official Chinese Communist position," and "as for the USSR -- back their international policy in general, hut without using their slogans, and above all without giving them or anybody else the impression of subservience."<ref>Senate Committee on the Judiciary, subcommittee on Internal Secutity, Report: [https://ia801406.us.archive.org/8/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit.pdf Institute of Pacific Relations] (1052), p. 119</ref>