CHINESE COMMUNIST 38 ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015200100006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Chinese Communist 38 Army
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to On 13 August the headquarters of the Chinese Communist 38 Army was in a series
of shelters at the southern foot of Hill 535 at approximately 127-019 38-29
(CT-278621).
2. Attached to this headquarters was a large supply depot) Sixty -to eighty trucks
were used to transport supplies to the depot. Rice, corn, and sorghum were
stored on the side of -the hill in about 180 piles covered with tents between
20 and 30 meters long, 3 hemp bags wide, and 15 hemp bags high., Arms and
ammunition were unloaded in shelters at the foot of the hill o About 20 trucks
transported the supplies to the front at night through Oktong.ni (127.07, 384, 7}
(CT-3657) and P4yongya:ng (C':-5251), Some of these supplies were stored
temporarily beneath a bridge which crossed the stream about one kilometer from
Oktong-ni, 2
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14 Comment. A. directive from W0 Tse-tung had specified that all
=ese Commu~.ist armies maintain a three-months reserve of supplies on
hand.
Comment. Probably the bridge at CT-351581
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