COMMUNIST STRATEGIC MATERIALS COMMITTEE MEETING IN CALCUTTA, INDIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500340007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY Southeast Asia
SUBJECT Comriun3 st Strategic Eaf es rl - fi ti :ag
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
l . A neeting of the Communist Strategic I'ateriaals Committee was held in
Calcutta, India, in early May 1951.1 The Committee, composed of Communist
renre henta+ives from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand and India,
is directed by the Chinese Communist Ambassador to Indonesia, WANG Jen-ohu;
the Chinese Communist Ambassador to Burma, YAU Chung mi.ng; and the head
o-P the Asiatic Affairs Section of the Chinese Communist HJ n?Istry of Foreign
Affaair,:i, ST!TN .Jui-helen.
2. TH- committee decides firtr:re military movements in Southeast Asia and
the question o+ resouxrces. The co: i+tee plans that strateg7_c ?r-iater .als
needed by China and 'Vietnam are to be obtained fror-i India through the
exchange of food sunnlies.
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1. Com*^ent. Communist China has recently sponsored efforts
to Improve its economic position with its neighlbors.
a group of Chinese Communist Purchasing agents are
currently in India; a Pan Asiatic News Alliance, Yong Kong, states
that seventeen Peiping Government Trade offiicials arrived in Hong
Kong 1 June en route to New Delhi to strengthen the Chinese Trade
Agency.
2. Comment.
one r Kuand-hua is head or acting head) of the Asian Affairs
Denartment. However, as of Autmst ? ~15O,
SV T Jui-hs-~ en as the Director,, Asian Affairs ce.
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