ACTIONS OF PRO-SOVIET CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADERS TO MAINTAIN THEIR PROGRAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300360004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT CD No.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Actions of Pro-Soviet Chinese Co i nunist Leaders
to Maintain Their Program
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO. March 1951
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REPORT NO.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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1. The pro'-Soviet group of the Chinese Communist leaders have made the following
decisions:
a. The political commissar of the 1 Arny* is to be in c xinand, with P'.Et
Te-huai as his deputy.
b. TEIUG Usiao--p' ing 4 * is to supplant LIU Poch' eng in cormiand of the 2 YF
iel d ley
c. JAO ahu-shih is to replace CH'EN I in corinand of the 3 Field Ater?
d. LIN Piao is to return to rear areas to recruit replacements; he is to
find 800,000 recruits from Central and South China within four months
and organize and train them into 40 divisions.
e. The 5 Field Array is to be temporarily commissioned,tirith HSU Hsiang -ch' ien
(44, Kq ~J) as chief of staff. A 6 Field Arir ,under the com uici of
NI741 Jung-chen? is to go to Korea .4 *
2. The Chinese Corw1unists have received the following; orders from. Stalin and
the Soviet Government:
LIN Piao is to be made deputy cormnander-3n-chief of the Chinese Leaunist
Army.
3.
b. Lembers of the Chinese Government who are not working toward international
Communi,an are to be purged before the be nning of a world war? This
order has resulted in the pro-Soviet group in the Chinese Government
ordering all surrendered Uationalist troops and other troops not apa-
thetic to them to be pent to Korea for extermination.
Members of the pro- Soviet Group of the Chinese Goverment include LIP: Piao,
LI Li-san, J10 Shu-shin, ofld Tier Iisiao .p'ing . These non are opposed by
IIAO Tse-tung, TUPZ Pi-iiu, ,,'U Yu--char, HSU Hsiang-ch' ien, CIfU To, C111111 I,
and LIU Poch' eng . The latter group has blamed the other for oppressing
the Chinese people and the democratic elements of the Government and for
hasty participation in the Korean war; for placing Stalin's orders ahead of
LAO's, for twisting MAO's pronouncements and blocking all Government policies
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except those approved by the Soviets.
4. The decisions of the pro -soviet group to shift cormans in the Chinese
Communist ArLV were the result of the discovery of a plot by MAO to reduce
the control of the pro-Soviet group by getting the cooperation of C;l'EN I,
YE!! Chian gird;, CH'EN Keng, and LIU Poch' eng. A message to a subordinate
of LIU,, YAP (hion-per, was intercepted, he ever, and the plot discovered
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C ammennt . The 1 Army probably means 1 Field Army here a
The com aisearr of the 1 Field
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- reports him as secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the
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Comment.. According to information available
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dG liai -0-pt is c eaar of the 2 Field Army. ,
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Comment o he n m i 5 Field Army being ordered
to go to Korea.
Cam, K d There have been mart' reports of a 6 Field Army
be: for el in K to under IEH Chian-yang. NMI Jung-chess , however,
has been reported in co d of the 5 Field Army.
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