MILITARY AND POLITICAL OUTLOOK FOR SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700380002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. ^
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COUNTRY China DATE DISTR. 4 May 1949
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to The fall of Shanghai and Hangchow is imminent.
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2. Generalissimo CHIANG Kai-shek is now in Shanghai holding conferences on the
defense of the city. CHIANG will leave at the last minute for Taiwan, then
he will go to Canton to continue to fight against the Chinese Communists*.
3. TANG En-po, commander of the Nanking.Shanghai?Hangehow Garrison Command, is
not attempting to make a deal with the Chinese Communists** TANG has
stated he will defend the city to the last man, and will conm_it suicide in
Shanghai upon the fall of the city.
4. The Communist forces are completing the isolation of Shanghai, and Nation-
alist troops in Kunshan (120-57, 31-24) are surrounded. The Chinese
Communist attack on Shanghai will concentrate on Nationalist defenses in
the outskirts. Because of this, the Nationalists are evacuating all
foreigners from the Hungjao district,
There is great resentment among the local_ foreign and native officials over
the departure of the US Navy.
60. LAO Sen. commissioner of the Shanghai police, claims that he and 30,000
followers will continue to fight underground even after Shanghai falls.
tAO is confident of his ability to control the police up to the time of
25X1X6 the complete surrender of Shanghai, and he feels that the city will not
follow the pattern established in Nanking**a
7. Chinese Communist General C Yi will assume the top-ranking position in
Shanghai immediately upon the fall of the city. CHNN has six thousand
especially-trained troops to maintain order during the transition period3*3`*
8, YUNG, assistant director of the Chinese Communist Board of Trade for the
Central China Area, Yangtze Region, is now in Shanghai to recruit about
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fifty members for the board to serve CHEN Yi in an advisory capacity. These
members will represent the Shanghai business guilds.
Comment. Press reports claim that the Generalissimo left
Shanghai in the evening of 27 April aboard the Chineso warship TAI
KONG to go to Amoy, and that the Kuomintang (1cMT) is forming a supreme
political affairs council with the Generalissimo as chairman. WANG
Chung?hui, a veteran lawyer, is directing the formation of a govern-
ment national defense council.
Comment. See regarding TANG's deal with the
Comment. MAO's principal subordinates are known to the Chinese
Communist Public Security department, which has been successful in
uncovering MAT underground agents in Peiping and Tientsin.
Cement. CHEN will probably be chairman of the Nilitary
Control Commission and concurrently mayor, following the pattern of
Y.SH Chien-ying in Peiping. According to foreigners arriving in
Shanghai from Peiping, the Chinese Communist Party has been training,
for a relatively short period, a take-over cadre for Shanghai in the
"South China Taker-over Cadre Training School," Peiping.
Comment. A rumor is circulating in the Shanghai Soviet com-
munity that the Chinese Communist Administration Cadre will take over
Shanghai, and there will be no general Communist troop entry into the
city.
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