OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES, CIA FAR EAST/PACIFIC BRANCH

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01090A000400060002-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 3, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES, CIA
FAR EASTfACIFIC BRANCH
INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS ? VEEK OF 27 APRIL - 3 MAC 1948
Further evidence of central direction of FE Communist activities
The existence of some form o oentra ize coot ra ing oormiiittee to
direct the activities of Far East Comm mist parties is now well established.
It is believed that one of the early plenary sessions of this committee
took plane in Harbin. Manchuria during January 198.
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It has now been learned, that
representatives from the Chinese Communist Party, the Mongolian Peoples
Republic, and North Korea held an B-day session w.th Soviet representatives
in Harbin in mid-April. Chou En-lai, who reportedly acts as "foreign
minister" of the Chinese Communists, and Khalin, former Soviet Consul General
at Shanghai, are reported to have been present; and the alleged purpose of
this meeting was "to ehifM C4ocus of the Far East Cominform from
Vladivostok to Harbin." a subsequent meeting,
held 19-22 April, was also attended by representatives from Japan and from
the Southeast Asia countries. A third international Communist gathering is
rep5ao have taken place at Ulan Bator (Urga) on 10-12 April..
cites a Chinese Communist
newspaper as saying that representativec of various Far East Communist
parties (of these representatives, only Chou En-lai was mentioned by name)
are due to meet late in May at Khabarovsk (425 miles north of Vladivostok).
Meamvhile, there is some recent evidence indicating that Far 'Eastern
Communist propaganda is developing a more international "All-Asia" flavor.
Japanese Communist Party backing of the recent Korean demonstrations in
Japan Pave that Party an 'occasion to air its views on US "reactionary
and imperialist" policies in Korea as well as in Japan itself. Moreover,
within the past few days, Chinese Communist propaganda has voiced strong
ehat,ges that the "reactionaries" of Korea, China and the US have been
conniving to dispatch 50,000 South Korean youths to Nationalist China, along
with "US-,type equipment", in order to give them actual combat experience
against "the Chinese people", and later- fit them into "reactionary South
Korean armed forces against the Korean people."' Finally, the Communist-
controlled South Korea Labor Party reportedly issued a set of "General
Instructions" during March, which includes the statement that "the war in
China is more important than the situation in Korea(and) a study of the
Chinese situation is imperative."
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Cor:sti lution ado ,I ted in .forth Korea. On 29 April the "'orth 'ore=:n
People s Council adopted the orear) !&-,ooratic i?eople's tep.Jbli c
Constitution", subject to "final approval of' an all--` ore-an 7c: is lative
asse-f sblf." This li:~:itation leralwi.sti call;- --i vej the `3:a3H protection in
case of intern?tional challenp:e that It has token unilateral action in
Kore 'iowever, the terms of the Constitution itself provide for the
estatl shrent of a "Ueaocrati.c i'ocp1, ' `o ,rblic'? in I ort h >;orea until
such t{.-:e as cor:trol can he e:'terded to all of lorea. orecver, the
rt stit':.tior ".ierel y, I "'.li ,'es tr:e " .` `:: t! tU. tom. ons
or c;r five in i:orth Korea. "rcpt-nn of the 'or.2t_tution at the
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