1. SEAMEN S ASSOCIATION IN SHIHTAO 2. PORT ACTIVITIES, SHIHTAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100140013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT 1., Seam, ln" a Association in Shihtao
2. Port Activities, Shihtao
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l ,, The Seaman ? s Association (Hae aeon Kong Hoe in Korean., Hai Yuan Kung Hui in
Chinese) in Shihtao (122-25 36--53) is a Korean trading agency
which Der. forms all liaison duties between the Chinese Communist Arty (CGA)
and North Korea.,* The association also contacts Korean smuggling boats enter-
ing ShihtaoA and those smug-lens who are discovered to be anti-Communist are
arrested and turned over to the Korean Democratic Federation in Dairen. The
Federation, after investigating the cases; transfers them over to the Ulnistry
of the Interior in Pyongyang for final disposition.
2 ~ The association changes the location of its office once every three months
The office has a staff of about five men, all Koreans. The manager is named
,.'0 (4' )~ he is 35 years old and a native of Kosong County (120-20a, 34-58),
SO vrorkec. for the South I".anc hurian lailroa(' in Dairen during the Japanese
of cunation of I !anchuria and moved to Shi.htao after the war ended. The other
men i.n the oiiice are all named KLi ( ) and are all natives of South ! yongsang
Province.,
and the Tung Shun T ? ung
36-53) the Yuan i ~ ung Li (} Y. $?rj 'j 4:,
1, At Shillitao (122-:_)5.7
(z~'. ; . I 1) Trading Cc -)anios arc conducting trade for the GCI\ The Yuan Teung
Li began trading .ri.th Hong Kong in Pcbr?u ry 1919 dealing crith military sup.)lics
needed by the CCA,w The main irrr?ort is ,;asoline. which is shi,),)od from Shihtao
at night to various storage tanks in Shantung Province, and the major exports
are beans and bean cakes., One 1,700 ton vesre1 males the round trip to Hong
Kong once each month.
.,, A steel coast guard vessel was purchased by the Shihtao Customs House from
Chinnamnc, North Korea, in June 1949. . rior to that date. sail boats had been
used to t- card the port. The ship displaces about 10 tons and is equip,'ed with
an 80 horse-n over diesel engine.
5. In February 1950, tuelv'e officials, ranging i age from 19 years to 30 years,
were employed by the customs house,. Guards,, working in eight hourP shifts.. were
on duty twenty four hours each days They were not ,.rearing; unif'orins.
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agency _o:r apanese and Korean smug.-lers and as a Chinese Co exist military
t The Soar,en s Association has been variously reported as an
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in_telli r-;cnce agency. In January 1950., the organization erloyed eight
Koroari aEents, trere leaded by a Chinese Con-munist army officor named
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