CHINESE LABOR FORCE IN USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Rele se 2006/09/27 ~ CIA-R 80-00809AO00500810120-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSF/Communist China
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SUBJECT Chinese Labor Porce in
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1. A huge movement of Chinese labor, reported to involve several hundred thousand
Asiatics, is now in progress in the Zhitomir basin (Ukraine). The new laborers
are mostly Chinese and come largely Lrom the former forces of Chiang Kai-shek.
They are troops who deserted en masso to Mao Tse-tung, taking their arms and
baggage with them.
2. The Ukraine has many concentration comps, oiyner. T he. main
centers arc Zhitomir :Siev. Korosten. NovogrxdV
was chosen mainly oecause there cam:.:, -:t_ '~v~lianie the-v. there is to
be a more rational distribution cf this labor force, ccrrecporaing to the
actual needs of the Ukraine.
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