A sociable hostess Ray Cline, who was deputy head of the CIA in Taiwan during the 1950s and 1960s, describes Chang-an East Road in his memoirs as a large but somewhat crude bungalow, that was comfortable but a little shabby as a place for entertaining high-ranking visitors to the ROC.
曾經在五○到六○年代駐台的前美國中央情報局副局長克來恩，在他的回憶錄裡形容長安東路寓所，是一棟「大而有點簡陋的一樓平房… … 相當舒適，但讓中華民國政府如此重要的高級官員來住，卻顯寒酸」。