SOVIET POLICY TOWARD SINKIANG PROVINCE

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• Publication Date: June 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Far East )China
SUBJECT Soviet Policy Toward Sinkiang Province
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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the Soviets do not exercise the rpe and degree of
original Soviet plans called for
the.aboorption of Sinkiang directly into the USSR primarily as a new
souVdO of raw materials.
control over Sinkiang Province that they .en o .elsewhere in the Far East. The
the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade had a:small
reesentation, in Sinkiang in the post-World War II years.
The Mork for which certain NKGB officers were decorated
ntu.raa in Sinkiang.
S,ftond.or Third Subsection, Fourth Section (Far East), foreign
intelligence directorate field office (UMGB) in Alma Ata, USSR. Colonel
tr A. Shibayev headed this subsection as.late as 1945 and 1946. He was
rerlaced by Colonel PLtr V. Kozlov, who several times visited the.
forted directly to the then MGB, which in turn reported to the
round work for political warfare plans. The MVD group in Sinkiang-
between 1945 and 1950. The political work was conducted.entirely (sic)
by the MVD. Urdil at least 1949, there was a small MV]).operational group
,of".about six individuals stationed in Sinkiang, primarily to lay the
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no representative in Sinkiang
was the plotting of a secret revolt against tb.+e Chinese
the USSR, probably in 191 and 1945, and many were buried in caches
scattered throughout Sinkiang Province. many of the
.rifles and machiti.e guns so concealed could not be located when the Soviets
went to recover their caches after World War II.
a. e governor of Sinkiang. To this end, small arms were sent from
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Also as part of the Soviet plan to absorb Sinkiang, the NKGB kidnapped
several top leaders in the Sinkiangese provincial government through
the use of drugs and sleeping pills, during World War II. Colonel
Shibayev himself participated in the kidnapping of an official from
Urumchi (N 4+3-51, E.87-36) to the USSR. As this official did not
"go to sleep", Shibayev clubbed the man on the head, after which the
official was hidden under some hay in either an animal-driven hayrack or
truck, and was taken across the border into the USSR. This abduction
was one of several designed to pave the way for eventual Soviet
absorption of Sinkiang.
the NKGB murdered either the son or
coerce the governor into either capitulating to the Soviets or leaving
Sinkiang,through the gradual Soviet liquidation of the Sinkiangese anti-
Soviet element.
e some other very close relative of the then governor of Sinkiang, who
strongly opposed the Soviets. The murder was part of an effort +
the planned revolts took place sometime in the
After the revolts had succeeded in removing the governor loyal to Chiang
Kai-shek, the new Sinkiang satellite government sent a delegation of its
topmost leaders to Moscow, probably sometime in 1949 or 1950. The delegation
was picked up in Sinkiang, probably Urumc}i, in a Soviet Army IL-12 plane.
Somewhere in the area of Chita, USSR, the plane crashed, and all on board.
were killed. The Sinkiangese delegation was accompained by a Soviet
advisor, MVD Colonel Stepanov (fnu). The total number of persons killed
was.10 or 12, exclusive of the crew.
a
y or may not have participa e .
1 ?y " o one KOZIov,
and others from the Fourth Section of thp Y ign intelligence
directorate participating. Colonel Kotelnikov
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.Laze s, with . General Langfang Colonel Shiba ev C 1
oy e Government and the new l ea dev W ~- . , ~ V yvw
ip in Sinkiang.
A special investigationg commission was appointed in Moscow to look into
the safety of the flight engineering of the TL-12 mh
e main reason for the temporary suspension of all flightseof ILh12s.
consisted of members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Aeroflat_
and selected aeronautical enginPPra_
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