REGIONAL RESHUFFLING OF SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500640129-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 129
• Publication Date: November 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Regional Reshuffling of Scientific Personnel
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2. A. a result of growing dissatisfaction, evidence of sabotage and leakage of
scientific information, a now government program has boon announced for the.
regional reshuffling of university graduates in scientific field.. That is,
chemical and industrial engineers, doctors, nutrition experts, nurses and no
on, who have lived or worked in one area long enough to have put down roots
or to have developed lasting ties, will now be uprooted and assigned to areas
where they are unknown.
evidenced by scientific personnel on inland with t scientific program
enforced by the Communist government.he patriotic onthuai-
aam in thin group has waned to the vanishing point and only their extreme
z"-r.a year c s en a, eng neers a nurses were sent into the area by
train and were greeted with wild enthusiasm two stations away from Hankow
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(the tracks wore apparently vrached out from that point on). They were net by
the local heade'of labor unions, and by flowery speeches of welcome from
local*officials. Sigh hopes in the area died abruptly however me it became
quickly obvious to all that the rescue organisation lacked the equipment,
the brains or the know-how to administer the desperately needed relief.
The Inability of Comunist health authorities to check the
outbreak of typhoid, cholera and dysentery added impetus
to the mounting wave of anti-government reaction: me roe le of scientific
personnel is believed to have been designed an the only possible counter-
measure for the prevention of defections and the organization of anti-government
underground units.
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