WASHINGTON -- For three decades, starting in the 1950s, a newsletter issued by a Jesuit priest in Hong Kong was considered the best intelligence available on China.
The Hungarian-born Father Lazlow Ladany was known as a "one-man think tank" who would pore through official Chinese Communist Party speeches, documents, newspapers and radio broadcasts. His "China News Analysis" was read by analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency and in Soviet states alike.
