When Chung asked for aletterofintroduction from the White House for a trip to China, National Security Council officials warned that Chung was a "hustler" whose activities were "very troubling" for U.S. diplomacy.
She stole up the long drive to the Lahore house of the retired civil servant and landlord K. K. Harouni, bearing in her lacquered fingers aletterofintroduction from, of all people, his estranged wife.
Wolcott came to New York, in the fall of 1972, because Norman Mailer liked an article he had published in his college paper the article, not coincidentally, was about Norman Mailer and had written aletterofintroduction to Daniel Wolf, who then edited the Village Voice.