1. PRICE OF EXIT VISAS IN CERTAIN AREAS IN CHINA 2. DECLINE IN VALUE OF US DOLLAR IN INDONESIAN BLACK MARKET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100230012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Chinese who have recently returned to Indonesia from the vicinity of L:eihsien,
Swatter,: Foochow, and Ch.?angchou (ll3?-y26r 23-04) report that the Chinese Comaru-
niet euthoritise forced them to pay one 24 carat gold bar weighing not loss
the 3/4 kilograms for cn ezitt visa,, Failure to make this payment meant that
one would be detained in China Pall an indefinite pariod. In this manner the
Chinese Co=aunist Government has obtained gold with which to finance some of
its businsos transactions in Hong Taongo
2,. Since both Chinese Nationalists and Comrunists have been pa -ing for their
purchases in Hong :long in gold, there hes been an inflw of gold into TTong
Kong. As a result the demand for ;old Bard US dollars smupgled out of Indonesia
has declined and the black market value of the US dollar in Indonesia has do-
clined
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