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21 April, 1984

Estimable Sir:

In accordance with our established policy of free exchange with friendly Powers of scientific information,
permit me to inform your Government that a new mutated disease-virus has been developed in our
biological laboratories, causing a highly contagious disease similar in symptoms to bubonic plague, but
responding to none of the treatments for this latter disease. This new virus strain was accidentally
produced in the course of some experiments with radioactivity.

In spite of the greatest care, it is feared that this virus has spread beyond the laboratory in which it was
developed. We warn you most urgently of the danger that it may have spread to the UEESR; enclosed
are a list of symptoms, etc.

My Government instructs me to advise your Government that the attitude of your Government in the
Khakum River question is utterly unacceptable, and will require considerable revision before my
Government can even consider negotiation with your Government on the subject. Your obedient and
respectful servant,

Wu Fung Tung




From N. Y. Times, May 12, 1984:

AFGHAN RULER FETED AT

MOSCOW
 Ameer sees Red Square Troop Review;

Confers with Premier-President Mouzorgin




Sing Yat, UPREA Ambassador at Moscow, to Wu Fung Tung:

26 June, 1984

Venerable and Honored Sir:

I regret humbly that I can learn nothing whatever about the fate of the learned scholars of science of
whom you inquire, namely: Hong Foo, Hin Yang-Woo, Mong Shing, Yee Ho Li, Wong Fat, and Bao
Hu-Shin. This inability may be in part due to incompetence of my unworthy self, but none of my many
sources of information, including Soviet Minister of Police Morgodoff, who is on my payroll, can furnish
any useful data whatever. I am informed, however, that the UEESR Government is deeply concerned
about similar disappearances of some of the foremost of their own scientists, including Voronoff, Jirnikov,
Kagorinoff, Bakhorin, Himmelfarber and Pavlovinsky, all of whose dossiers are on file with our Bureau
of Foreign Intelligence. I am further informed that the Government of the UEESR ascribes these