CHINESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE HONG KONG AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400360001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION s m a/cONmoL - 410 7b 6JFFi CLAL6 (ThLT
S aeUJtI T tiI4ATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE' AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION RET CD NO..
COUNTRY China/Hong Kong
DATE DISTR., 17 I ovember 195].
SUBJECT Chinese Communist- Activities in the Hong Kong Area NO. OF PAGES 2
PLACE 25X1 A L '4 ,;, i_ NO.-OF ENCLS.
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. In mid September CHAHG ;.min ( P )l, a purchasing agent for the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, arrived in Hong Kong and took accomodations at the
Ta Chung Rua ( ) Hotel, Connaught Roads Central2. He dealt with the
Hain tun Hong ( f~ ji ). second floors l4O Connaught Road, Central, for the
purchase of carbon arc lamps, medicines, and drugs.
2. As of early October, LO Lung-chi (?. ) was responsible for the Chinese
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Communist international liaison bureau in Hong Kong, Among his contacts have
been CH?] N Chin-sha ( y~r } e several representatives of Communist labor
organizations in South Africa and many overseas Chinese from Malaya. LO
has been planning to make an organi zing trip to Southeast Asia.
OUmYANG Shan ("Z f4 L, )3, head of the Culture and Education Committee for
South China, has ordered HO Ch?un-ping (4j %'- ) , a female cultural agents
to Hong Kong to prepare for the arrival in Hong Kong of TS ? UI Ta a ai--i
director of the Cultural and Science Department (sic) of the
Chinese Communist Government. TS?UI arrived in Canton about 7 October.
4. CRUAN_~G T?ien ( . 1B )4 has sent FEI Hsiao-tung ( ,,&~ )5 and CHOU Yung-yin
( )Q 4) as agents to the Democratic Republic etnam (DRY). CHUANG? s
liaison center in Hong Kong Is in the Wan I ( )' Shop on the first floor
TRIG Fei (If , ),, also known as TELG Liang (', A, ), has returned to Hong
Rung after a period of training in Canton. He was formerly a chief Communist
agent in the Colony. He frequents the Chung Chiang (,f i&) Dispensary. 796
of iiong Kong Ta Kung Ssu (i. 'L{ ) .
The South China Bureau has sent CHIEN Wei-tz?u (, .) to Hung Kong to
supervise Communist agents. He often goes to the Hua. Ch? iao ( i ) Trading
Company7, 114 Des Voeux Road.
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7. The Hwa Nan ( A i ) Auto CompanyS, fourth floor, 5 Des Voeux Road Is a Chinese
Communist espionage center and a purchasing station for war materials for
Communist China.,
S. The Ran &za (1' ) Manufacturing Compauy9 of Hor.- ; Song has received an order
for 500 junk engi era and 500 automobile engines from the Chinese Communists.
25X1A 1, Comment. The Vietnamese equivalent is Truong Di Dann
25X1A 2. Comment, Presumably this would be the Great China Hotel,
weo~l Y 8411
119 Connaught Road, Central., -
25X1A 3Y, Comment. According to information available to this, office,,
U ANG Shan has previously held positions as a member of the Culture and
Education Committee for Central and South China and as chief of the Canton
branch of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association.
25X1A 4. Comment. According to CHUANG has pre- 25X1A
viously held important positions In Chinese Communist military missions to
the DRY.
Comment. According to information available to this office,, FBI
Rsiaodtung, a prominent Chinese anthropologist, has previously been employed
by the Chinese Communists as an emissary to the YAO people of Nwangsi. The
assignment here reported may be a similar one,
25X1 A 6. Comment. In Hong Kong, such a name would probably be rendered
Man Yik.
25X1A 7, Comment, According to information available to this office,
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CHIEN was active in April,. 1951 in the Rua Ch'iao or Overseas Chinese Trading
Company. This company was engaged in procurement of material for the
Chinese Communists and. cornering foreign exchange,;
25X1A 8. Comment Presumably this is Hua Nan Motors, Fed. Inc. U.S.A.,, of
25X1X the same address, who are authorized dealers for De Soto automobiles in Hong
Kong. Exa. Nan Motors is a subsidiary
of the Union Investment Company of Hong long,,
25X1A 9. . ente This may be the Ran Rua Ironworks, reported in-25X1A
as supplying Diesel engines for junks being fitted at Whempoaa
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