COMMENTS ON THE CHINESE COMMUNIST RADIO BROADCAST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: RECORDS GROUP 59
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005742967
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-01643
• Publication Date: July 8, 1949

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~l'30RAItvUM FOR. TH'~ SOCIAL .ASSISTAIyT TO THESECRETARY OF STATE
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SiIHJECTr Com~ents~ on the Ghineso. Communist Radio Broadcast.
JUL 8 1949
Tn x~ference to~ your letter of Jae. 2$ uslQ.ng for caa?ents on
Nanking 131j1 dated ~ 21 {Cantrell 90~73.s. particurlarlgr the First
paragraph,, thA follaoing appears to ba in po3.nts
? 1. That nthere is some element ~of truth in Chinese
. Gomnunst aL~.egtitibns re espionage ring in il~anchuria,, at
3east former7,~n; is .of course true, t~ecause the L'SD :-~.} unit
at ~ftzluien was perform3.ng intelligence activities prior to
tho evacuation. of ~3ea by the Nationalists -and coincicienta7.
the.IjaD !a!~ unit in. October 19~$. .
2. The next tx~ro sentences in paragraph one of subject
cable ~ puzzling; 3.n timir intent bacaueo~ they .oxpress an
opinion of outside observt3rs' in Chine as to what may have.
har~penod, To us theta 3s no question of withdrawal or
termination of ~ectivS.ties because Ch3.nese Ca~unists ~broloa
up Esn activit~.es. ESD Frithdre~ from 6tutnden because it
was the .semi-overt inte.l].igeizce representation ira Mtt,I~den
?of the militarily responsible U. S. Co?maacler .in Chinay
and was in l~laden iu direct ].ieison with. the Chirnese
Nationalist forces: Therefore trhen the Nationalists with-
dre~sry, .it was only natural that I aD ~rrlthdr~r.
3. The lest ~ntc3nce of tho paragraph. ref?rs to tkze
arrest .of five gSD agents in Peiping .last I'ebruary: " Tlu~
co~zpletm facts of this incident are not kno~rn to us, but
it is dsnovm that sc~a of them yrere formerly F.SD agents...
It is .believed that at least vita of them was. arrested i:n
the FaZI, of 19t~$ ixi Chengohan. ~ a.n the case of the
sa-called agents arrested 3n ?~~kcien the Chengchuri agant
w$s onm left behind ~-I.th the equipraerxt he had been. using..
In neither the Changchun case nor the ?~ukden case heel
there been aqy contact with the left-behi.rxl egant since
the withdre~ra3, of FsSD !~ from I~ukden. It is our beliof 'r. -~ :~,
that the arrests ;of. dents took place to all instances,
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 directly follow3.ng the Chinese Communist truce oust i.n the
cities rospeetively of (3hangchua~ men awl Peiping and
that the arrests in Peipiz~ rrexe led up to by the arrest
in Changchun of an agent tirho ?orm~r7~t hed name assaciotion
with those arrestt3d in Peiping. It ie Quit be3,ief that
a7.than~l thesE streets vrsna made much oar~.ier than any
lima iu~mediately~ prior to tho ~;lerxso oa?' the Ch3.nese
Coamaunist broadoaat~ tJu3 Chino?e Comtaus~sts have saved
axed distorted the irie~:dents in order to aSford then a
defens3.vQ posit3,on ~.n any discussion of restxiCtivo
traat~nmant gi.~n the Consulate General Qetabxi:elvnent in
Mukden..
It should bo pointed cut that the asaoaiation of ~ ~!t
with the Consulate Ger~ral. i.n ~iladen urea closQ during thQ
period when ?sir: ? 0, ~'daiuru3 C]:ubt~ ?aa Cant3u]: general in 2~ukden9
wh~sn ?dr: Clubb wag izi Changahwti andr when he x`inally want to
Peip~.ng. ,This close assoGiatian wad,required by directivo
from thsneral George ?~arsizall for the Consul t3enaral to
coordinate .intelligence in tYta ai~eo. That this physical
a sociation ~ between ~D ?a!t and the Consulate i3eneral riay
hmve led to statements tying fr~tol3.i.genco activf:ties to
Coriaulate (~aneral ac$ivitiee is 3~iiItiden s~r~d might egrzi.in
lm referred to at any tune, vrhen_ thore may .be negotiations
or incidsnts Suavolvi.ng the Consulate General in Peiping.
tt. ds the cable from Nanking vast' port3.nant2y points
out, ~'wD 1t~t ttctivitivs were not directed against the Chinese.
In fact they ~rere t,Q coma extAnt genara3ly 'known to Chinese
l~ati.orel3sts az~ probably the Chin~sa Commtzn9.sta ar3 being.
directed against non-C3~~3.neea targots..
B4$EBT A. SCH~'J
Assistant Director
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