MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: May 29, 1951

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itraid4.11TENCE ABSMACTS
OF
UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CIA/SI 25.11-51
29 May 1951
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1. CHINA
Infoa
Early Mar, 51
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EVACUATION OF HOSPITALS, cHIIREN,AND
AGED FROM COASTAL ARM
Military preparations continuing on Ftkien coast0
all hospitals and persons over 55 or under I
ordered to move inland from Chuanchau (TSINGKIANG) and from
several other toin6 in vicinity before March 8. Persons remain-
ing in these places instructed to lay in three months supply
food and urebare sandbags-for air defenbe.
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2. CHINA
Info: Mid
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Feb 51
TWO SHANGHAI BUOY TENDERS CONVERTED INTO HOSPITAL
SHIPS FOR NORTH CHINA DUTY
Two customs survey veSsels formerly used to lay buoys for
marking the channel leading te Shanghai ha-ve been converted
into hospital shipe and are to sail-for'North China ports with
a locally engaged crew within the month.
3. CHINA
Info: 23 Apr 5:
MOVEMENT OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES,
AMMUNITION, AND bOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT:
0 000 MO a= 1.0 000.
junks loaded with medical supplies, rifle and
MG ammunition, and communications equipment were proceeding to
TAI SE (POSEH) 23-54 N 106-38E and LUNGCHOW approximately 22-30N
107E via TS&NG VU (MUCHOW) 23-28N-111-18E.
During rainy season, approximately April thru
oelieved navigable that far by junks up to 100
August, rivers
tons.
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4. CHINA/INDOCHINA
Infos Apr 5-6 51
MOVEMENT OF CHINESE MICA', =TERM INTO INDOCHINA
trucks carrying a
large quantity of medical supp1ies9 including medicineso and
about 50 medical personnel from the Supply and Service-Command
of the Kwangsi Military District-arrived at Chineisi from Nanning
on 5 April and proceeded to Indochina on 6 APril.
6. CHINA/EASTERN
EUROPE
Info: Mar 51
EUROPEAN MEDICAL PERSONNEL STAFFING
MANCHURIAN HOSPITALS'
Many European medical personnel have been sent to Manchuria
via the USSR to staff the hospitals there.
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8.
CHINA/KOREA
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Infos NArs 5J
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CHINESE
COMMUNIST CASUALTIES OF KOREAN WAR
HOSPITALIZED IN SOUTH qua
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shipments of Chinese 4th Field Army sick and
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mtunded from
for treatment
appears to be
arriving there
for treatinelii.,
Korea 'have been-eacuated as far south as Kwangtung
and:Convalescenad.- Kukong in'hor;bhern'Kivangtun
central point for this MoveMent� 1 :th'al-1 patients
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then diStrihnted ta Varioui KWangt:g hosPitals
or-toronfidin10;-haiena-fOrtOnvaleScence
estimate number of eacuees at
6,000.
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9. KOREA/SOV GERMANY
Infos Up to Foreign Broadcast Info.
31 Mar 51 Service, No. 16 - 18 Apr El
SOVIET GEMS MEDICAL AID TO KOREA
Up to the end of March, the Soviet Zone of Germany committee'to
aid Korea collected DM 4,600,080 and 1,742 boxes of medicine*
Boxes of cholera vaccine, serum, and thermometers have been con-
tributed in factories, mines, schools, and gov'ernment institu-
tions. Students and teachers in Leipzig, Dresden, and other
places have donated blood.
ANALYST0S CONMENT8 This represents a sizeable contribution to
Korean stores.
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10. KOREA/USSR
Info a Feb-MAT� 51
SOVIET MILITARY ADVISERS IN
N. KOREk EMPLOY MEDICAL COVER
Soviet officers
attached to North Korean field hospitals are aCtuarly engaged
in command combat operations or as combat advisers With-Chinese
Communist and North Korean units. IWO to four officers, in
uniforms of the appropriate army medical service,, are assigned
to each field hospital. In mid-February, two such offiaers
were at the North-Korean Army field hospital at Namchou.
CIA CONMENTs This is one of the many capaeities in -which
Soviet direction and guidance may given. If true, it
adds significance to the report that after the withdrawal of
Soviet troops from N. Korea in Dec, 48,-Soviet "medical"
personnel remained in every provincial, gun, and city hos-
pital" throughout the area
11. KOREA
MEDICAL UNIT SENT TO FIGHT SMALLPDX EPIDEMIC IN KOREA
According to a North Korean broadcast of 16 May, a group of
Soviet physicians has entered North Korea "to stamp out smaTI-
pox in a short time."
CIA COMMFNTa Pyongyang Radio announced previously that a-ten-
man Soviet anti-epidemic unit arrived in Sinuiju 20 March.
A 14 May broadcast announced that the USSR'and'Peoplens Democ-
racies had sent relief supplies including 1100 cases of vaccines
"for prevention of epidemics and daily necessities" to Korea.
Communist troops in Korea are known to be suffering from wide
spread smallpoxs and Soviet propaganda charges that the "US
interventionists" are spreading the smallpox epidemic among
the ComMunist forces in Korea throu h use of bacteriological
warfare.
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12. KOREA
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FBIS NoT 10 May 51
CHOLERA INOCULATIONS
The Ministry of Health has decided to carry out public inoculation
against cholera, in order to prevent the spread of the disease
this summer. As cholera has already reached Korea from India
and adjacent areas, which are the sources of this disease, the
Ministry of Public Health will start its anti-epidemic work
first in the many port cities which are most vulnerable to the
infiltration and spread of the disease from abroad. The Ministry
intends to complete anticholera inoculation -within this month
for inhabitants in port cities and incoming and outgoing shipsg
crews. Pusan, Inchon, Kusan� Mokpo, Yosu, Masan, and Pohang will
be the first areas in which the inoculation will be carried out0
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13. RUMANIA/KOREA
Info: 18 May 51
BUCHAREST COLUMNIST ACCUSES
U. S. OF SPREADING SMALLPDX IN KOREA
� Cominform "Journal" of May 18 included Jan Marek's column
accusing U. S. aggressors of 6ma1lpox germs and pre�
paring bacteriological Warfare in Korea.
ANALYST'S COMMENTs This i one of Several recent accusations
by newspapers of USSR and satellites Shaiing increased propa�
ganda re use of BW by UN forces in Korea.
14. RUMANIA "
Info: Late 1950
& Early 1951
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SHORTAGES OF DRUGS- GOVERNMENT CONFISCATION OF
SURGICAL INSTRIANNTS ANIdEQ"uIPMENT_FROM PRIVATE DOCTORS
American mediCal s4plies msre-practieally exhausted in Rumania in
Sept. and'Oct. 1950. Supply fram:Switzerland was cut off in
Nov, 1950. Penicillin of -good quality available in very small
quantities in early Feb-s 1951. -Soviet penicillin of-poor quality
was still being received -in Jan, 1951. Strebtamvcin
and dicumaro1 being (W(1 )
confiscated by the government. Adienalins efedrines papaverine� (b)(3)
atropines calcium (products)s urotropin and vitamin drugs began
arriving from Czechoslovakia in"Novs 1950. Supply lasts only
two to three days after arrival. American sulfa drugs practically
nonexistent in IUGOJ'hospital in-late Novs 50. Supply of peni�
cillins streptomycin, aureomycins and chloromycetin is only
1 per cent of country's need. Other drugs are 10 per cent of the
need. Streptomycin was available only in very small quantities
on Rumanian Black Market. Hospital equipment in LUGOJ was in
poor condition in early Febs 1951. Private supplies of surgical
instruments and equipment were confiscated by the government in
Jan. 1951.
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SHORTAGE OF sumus AND EQUIPMENT IN 'SPANISH
ARMY -MEDICAL SERVICE
organization of Central edid i.Supp1y Depot COnsists Of-office
of Commanding Office r and variOUS-seCtiOna iirhiah-handle certain
categories of suppl.- 'One sedti&U deals'*ith field'andhopital
equipment such as surgical instrumentS -portable steam st�
liers- operating" i'nnm
sec ion was a repair s o
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end
argue en a de anidad 'liter is the main
medical suvolv depot of the Army
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