1/ In the dead of night, the leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, is secretly whisked from DC to CIA HQ. Deng has serious business there. The visit has never been reported before. I break the story in my podcast, The Great Wager, about Nixon to China available @WBUR @NPR 🧵👎 2/ Deng asks to go to CIA to meet director, Stansfield Turner. His car slides into underground garage, almost everyone has gone home. It's Jan. 31, 1979, last day of his celebrated visit to DC. He is escorted to the first floor comms center, shown a big map of China 🧵👎