(August 14, 1967)

【Nagalingam Shanmugathasan (1920-1993) was the founder and a member of the Central Political Bureau of the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing). The party was founded in 1964, splitting from the Ceylon Communist Party. On June 6, 1967, Shanmugathasan visited China and was received by Mao Zedong. In this letter, Shanmugathasan said that he had now been told that the content of his conversation (with Chairman Mao) could not be published without consent.】

"Comrade Kang Sheng: For this type of matter, do not go and blame the comrade who published it."

"For general conversations, it does not matter if they are published."