AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN SHANGHAI AND CANTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500600010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION PORT CD NO,..
COUN-YRY China
SUBJECT Arseri.evai Prisoners of ,,iar in S hanpha . and Canton
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'Nmi,os of more A aer?ican prisoners of war at the c =p on Yuyuen Road,, Shan hail
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As of r?xid-July about CC) American prisoners of
c~rcj "~'ca ng cold in the fgYxaos?
villa of CIi'i N Chi.?t ear,, at Plum Blossom Village In Canton, They were given,
two meals daily of the sage food Chinese Co2nmunist soldiers receive and were
being given daily political and ideological training. Their guards were
drawn from the garrison regiment of 15 Any Group Comaand Headquarters.
The Chinese Corrr,uni6t 4 Field Arx. r under the corm nd of LIN Piao has selected
a group of United i~Fltions prisoners of war who can speak Mandarin or Cantonese
and sent :hem to Canton.2 About 12f3 such prisoners have arrivod in Canton
including 15 Americans, e3 Bx tish~ and 1103 South ICorea ,
ris~, ;,Icro than 40 were
in the first group of a.rri.vais? and the remainder orra.e later in another group50X1-HUM
The American and British prisoners are oonFined in the former USIS office
in Shaameen? Canton. They are restricted to the building,, bu?c are receiving
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goad treatrionto The South Koreans are not treated as well as the British
and Americans. No official. or unofficial information concerning the
prisoners has been disclosed by the Chinese Co a et autiorities, but it is
believed that they are to be used for propaganda purposes,
Ar .eric sn pri sonars of war at ;',' 35$ Lane 1136,, 'Yuyuen Road, Sh ghai .
reported there were no LOU prisoners in Canton, as of rid.-July. Howover,
Com' . ent m I the use
f C hinese-speaIdM United i1ations ? prisoners of war for street
demonstrations in Canton, The field coa:nt, that it is unlikely that
United Nat'. one' prisoners could be used f"or? propr;a_ncla purposes *,7itbourt
reports of such activity appearing In the Chinese press. An officer of
the C:iin,ese Communist 15 Army Group,, 4 Field Anay,, stationed at Shihchei,,
on 8 'ey 1951. The prisoners soon in :.iukden were reported to be in
good spirits and tidily dressed,
E:: 1 30 limerican prisoners of gear entrained from :.ulcer for :axzt'or,
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