POLITICAL INFORMATION: LI WEI-CHEN AND THE RATIONALISTS, POLITICAL GROUP IN SHANGHAI

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400030009-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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3. LI ~'~03.~-~chc~~t ('-~- ~~~~~, raproaont3.nG a. Groz:p ~o ca3.1 thcznsal~vaa tie
1~atior;ralists and vrho desire to counterbalance and mir~,imiza the influence
of .the Cemmuniats in a coalitfi~a~n govarru"iQnt, is see~lc3.n~ E+merican aid for
the loupe
2g I.I believes that the Generalissimo is thro~iz and spc nebulou$ly of a?
nevr leader tJho xaill come from amonG southern was' lords, tfte Kt~ar~si Clique,
wind the ~,idianmedmn>s, for ~rhoct he envisions himself a eamprorrd.ser and
intetmedio..2go He su~oets tH.at eversrona ~r11L subordinate himself to this
leader, but gives no h3.nt o8' his ri.etr as to vrho the leaded ~ril~. be.
3 , His favorite appears to bg IlSU.~II Yuah, who has 10 d~.visions under his
command a x.I claims to have wain the auppc3rt of YU Han-~nou and ('?HkTJG Fa~k~zei,
the latter beir~ the Rational.ista ~ choice for governor of Hainan, a chof.ce
vrhich they eroaU.d sup~~ort by arms. LI believes that these three men' vr3:th
the ~t~r~si Clique, can Hold the southern pruvi.ncea
4E I.I feels that the xwrthwast provinces wi11 supi:ort his group, but claims
that ha hr3e nu> contact with Yunnan and spet3ks~ indefinitely of his contact s
in 5zechuart.
5a I.I, c~,na reports his a:cupatian as that of a ~aurrat9.at~ claims to have begn
ixstimate frith Eugene C11EAt, fornter Foreign sinister; his son David C1iF2s ~w
in Hangkotrtg; Kvrat~tutz~ militarg and political ~igurea; and LI Ghi-~sheno .
pie 9j~s returned to Canton for #~u'tk~er discus9ictae on hie plensQ
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