POLITICAL INFORMATION: SOVIET-CHINESE COMMUNIST COOPERATION IN ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100200009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A2g
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political Information: Soviet-Chinese
Communist Cooperation in Anti-American
Propaganda Activities
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO See below
25X1A6a
25X1X6
DATE DISTR. 26 November 1948
SUPPLEMENT
REPORT NO.
Date: --Q-~ A
The following information, although not current, is of possible interest,
25X1A6a
In April 1948 the Shanghai office of the Bureau of Information and
Statistics of the Kuomintang (BIS(KMTI) Detailed six young staff members,
former members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) , to various local
universities for the oste-.sible purpose of investigating the activities
of students who belong to the CCP. In reality, these men were to
incite the students to engage in anti-American propaganda activities.
They were to have Soviet advisers. The BIS(KMT) in Shanghai is headed
by former COP members Who are thoroughly venal.
2. On 9 June 1948 a special meeting of the Resistanoe Committee of Chinese
students from all Shanghai universities was held at the office of the
All-Ualon Association for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS),
217 Rue Cardinal kercier. Instructions were issued in reference to
propaganda activities against American support of Japan and Marshall Plan
aid to China.
3. All Soviet organizations of importance, such as the ISO (sic),atki,the
Society of Soviet Engineers and Technicians (OSIT), and the Soviet
Citizens' Association, had in June received instructions to spread
special propaganda amore the Chinese against the Japanese still
resident in Shanghai. Comment. It is possible that ISO
refers to the Art School IO , a section within the Cultural
Department of the Soviet 'Citizens' Association.) This propaganda was to
be carried out parallel with anti-American propaganda. The following
persons were designated for this. work:
a. Anatholy Goldbreioh, a former salesman for the Bakerite Company;
speaks Chinese fluently.
b. V. M. Anastasyev, a member of the ISO propaganda group. He was
formerly in Tientsin and speaks Chinese.
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b. T. N. Gladohenko, associated with the TASS news agency
propaganda bureau. Comment. The Dollar Directory
1948 lists Miss T. a e o as manager of the circulation
department of the Aovosti Dnya. In May 1948 it was reported
that she had gone to India with her sister and brother-in-law,
A. Nikitin. )
d. N. N. Nikitin, a newspaper man associated with the TASS news
agency, with good connections with Chinese newspapers, lie had
recently come from India.
4. In June a propaganda leaflet directed against the United States was
secretly printed by the Shanghai Student Anti-American Committee,
and was dropped over Nanking and Shanghai by a stude.zit who had taken
passage on a CNAC plane. The leaflet was printed by the Wang Lee
press on Muting Road, a branch of the Soviet-supported Epoch
Publishing Company, It stated that the American government is
rebuilding Japanese militarism which will be used eventually against
China.
Details include:
a.
The United States has given Japan 25 naval units, and 100,000
naval person:iel are presently in training.
b.
The Japanese army is being restored:
trained and more are in training.
300,000 men have been
o.
Japanese military industry is being completely restored, and
49 airplane factories are under oonstruotion.
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