CHINESE LABOR FORCE IN USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200020020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USS?/Ca^mtnist Chiral
SUBJECT Chinese labor Force in USSR
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Of TNI UNITED STATES. DITNIN TNI NIANINS OF TITLE 14, SECTION{
DATE DISTR.3 0 Wr 1954
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REPORT NO.
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. A huge movement of "Chinese labor, reported to involve several hundred thousand
Asiatics', is now in progress in the Zki,tdfr basin (Ukraine). The new laborers
are mostly. Chinese and come largely ,from the former forces of Chiang Kai-shek.
They are troops who deserted en masse to Mao Tse-tung, taking their'arms and
baggage with them.
2. The Ukraine has many concentration camps, handipd~bv Oula,a. The main intern-
ment centers are Zbi*01111ir, Kiev, Koroston,, $ovograd-Volynek; ,man. The region
was chosen mainly because these camps are available tnere. Later, there is to
be a more rational distribution of this labor force, corresponding to the
actual needs of the Ukraine.
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