NATIONALIST ESTIMATE OF CHINESE COMMUNIST POSITION IN THE KOREAN WAR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900200003-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT ationa_list '.stimate of Chinese Communist
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1. 'lthough intelligence reports from the China .inland indicate about 1,000,000
Chinese Communist troops in and around Korea, the Chinese military attache
in Korea estifiates that 350,000 Chinese Communist troops are In Korea, with
the number n5rtx of the Yalu River unknown. The following is the Chinese
Communist strength in and around Korea as reported by China mainlrand intell-
ience;
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f~ "i.x newly recruited regiments anal one independent si ia1 corps re;i.ent
from the North China : ilitary free, anal other newly crui.ted regiments
from other military areas,
b~ The 20, 26, 27, 30 and 32 "reties, and three truck regiments ,from. the 3
Field P~.rm1r.
co The l5 nd 61 :"reties from the 2 i'ield P,rmy.
da The and 6 t.r-aies from the 1 Field .Array,
ea The 36 and 37 Armies and one railroad regiment from the 5 .-~ield Prmy
to 30 raercent. The other 70 ?ierrAnt .~? p n
_ r.ri~ari.~es new recruits or :former i~atiorial.ist
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The 38, 39, ho, b2 and 50 "reties, three artillery regiments, one i.ndeper d
ant signal corps reci, .ent, and two truck companies from xhe h Field Jrryo
T Mongolian cavalry regimentsm
h. .About 100,000 troops in service cows from various places in China.
Statistics compiled by the Chinese military attache show that the nwmber of
?1ationalist troops in the Chinese Corl~.unist ^rr y has declined from An erce t
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been ti~aroughly indoctrinated with Maracaam and Stalinism
in China proper far the suppression ~+f g,~zaerrillas az~d in
anticipat~.on of a National3.st coun#~roffensi~e which is
expecter~ :~oon~ es?~acially with United Sta#,es help (C--bj,~
I~atiailaList stx?ate~ists have analysed tha#, the Chinese
Cnunists have, been having trouble at hom? which has pre~~
vented them from using their best tx?oops in Koreary
3~ In view of the, above analysis, the Chinese Communists can
not gain anything in waging the present Korean. war and area
therefore, a ~Y, for a pe ace acceptable to them to save face o
I~ow~vsr, aceardin~; to Nationalist in~~el2igence both from
Korea and the China mainl?+nd,, the number of Communist cas-~
ua7.ti~~s as x?epar?~~sd by the United States $ Army is far Pram
correctu Ccxnmunist log==sea from Allied air attacks are over-~
+~stimFltedA Natio.~aa].ist erience during the Sa.n~-Japanese
wa;r was that verb few v~re ki'Zled by aix~ strafing ar bambing~
MQSt of them were killed in action in the scrpcal.3.ed "human
sea." attacks
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