POLITICAL PRISON CAMPS IN NORTH AND NORTHEAST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900640006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE T~I~r7. C Oct 50
SUBJECT I'oli.tjcal Prison Ca* -)s in IT rth and Ilorthea.st
China
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORIfATION
Fda .itieal prisoners arreotod by the Chinese C ~mriunist Public Security Bureau
a~ e sent to coal, mines in IIaolikang-." (130--209 7?-0S) and Luling (13o..it
14'?.32) timber :ar s in IIoinl;an'(.ll. 56, 33-0.3), and farms in Chiam.us,ur::;.
(133-219 116 -49)., LIi.shan (132-.06, 4,535), I.ittnnchiang (12937, 44-3S) ~ and
the Tientsin area, There- are no women innate:3 in the camps in i.iarchuria,
Pt Ilaola.kan ; there are 30,000 miners, 10,000 of whom are prisoners, .
2. The fa? in the Tientsin area is at Chation (:1.1.7 Its, 39-13).= At this farm
14iere are about 7,000 former Idationaliot officials, aged 17 to 60 ctho ,Terra
brouf~ht from the Ching Ho Training Battalion 4'ixi 4'.2, uI if, /k fk~ in Peiping,
:where political. offenders are held,, Corv.mnists claim these prisoners are
Iationalist agents and inform theta that those vf.i.o make better records at the
far will recover their riffhts as citizens. Because of the poor diet and
Jiving conditions at the fari, deaths occur daily. The government plans to
set up experimental agricultural :,rojects for greening rice, and has apDroa-
s7riatod.. 6 000 taels of gold to run these projects. The farm covers an area
of about !;,000 to 60,000 acres which were confiscated from the peasants,
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onior.;t. A T)olitical )x ?.son labor cart) has been ireviously re-
Isoa ce a he IIao Ican.g C _-)al itine neax' Chiamusou. Ilao Kang is ' o ssihiy
a variation of the name taolihang,
Ioeent ~ This is probably identical vwit`i the former wrap camp near
Chiamusou nou k .cage as the First Incioctrina+i,ion Carp for the Peota1e e a
Liberation Army in I,orth,::ast China, :?rhero ' )ortant Eationa1-? st arvTy
cf'icers are reported to be im)riooricd.
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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