CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER

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• Publication Date: October 27, 1967
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China Task Force Address: OCI/CTF, Room 5G19
Secretariat: Extension 4028 Black 9376 Red
(NOTE: Data in the Newsletter is limited to SECRET classification)
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES
25X1A 1. Chief of the China Task Force, has
continue is participation b
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27 October 1967
rie
ings and discussion groups.
Activities for this _
the Office of Emergency Planning,
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by the Director of
Economic Research at which Robert Barnett, Deputy Assistant
Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Dept.
25Xo State, was the main speaker.
25X1A In early December will accompany Harald Jacobson,
Director for Asian Communist Affairs in the Bureau of East Asian
and Pacific Affairs, S ent, on a mission to the
25X1 C
LJ/~Ir~ ~? DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations,
has been auuv n -Plri n?-r
OSR, is the Aaencv' G r,=,n,ro~or+
aiiu analysis tor East Asian an
Bureau .,~ r__,, _
works
25X1A
closely with the China Task Force in this assignment.
3. On 1 November a new organizational structure for the
Office of Economic Research will become effective. Other than
staffs within the Director's office, OER is divided into two
major areas of research:
Communist Research Area
(a) Trade Policy Support Staff
(b) USSR/Eastern Europe Division
(c) China Division
on
Deputy
the 25X1A
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(a) Free World Division
(b) Indochina Division (all Vietnam, Thailand,
Laos, Cambodia)
(c) International Services Division
1A
The Chief of the China Divisi.on.is
(Ext. 6501 Black, 1216 Red, Room,-3G39-): T e D vts'ion??has three
branches:
China/North Korea
Industries
Chief,
Resources
Chief,
Chief, A
Those who have questions on functions and responsibilities
during the initial shakedown period are requested to contact the
office of the Chief of the China Division at the extensions and
room given above.
PRODUCTION SUPPORT ACTIVITIES STATSPEC
1. The Information Requirements Staff is in the process of
revising the China Handbook (a basic requirements guide).
STATSPEC 2. As of 31 August had-received a total of 18 Chicom
journals with 1967 dates. Nine- of? these were C-h-inese language
journals (47 issues). The list of .journals.-and:issues-appears
in Attachment A.
STATSPEC 4. In Newsletter #4 we?ment oned that a-sample- of the
Chinese language texts of Chicom-:provincial broadcasts which
the Hong Kong China News Analysis had begun to publish wouldSTATSPEC
be reviewed and evaluated This has now been done,
with the conclusion that ey wot d not contribute
~~~ ran a or volume to
The eric'an .Consulate General, Hong Kong,
as a so s a? e a these texts-are of no interest.
will discontinue receipt of these materials.
STATSPEC
1. During September William.Morell,. Jr...Director of
Econoomic Research supported the DDI
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on the contribution of Free World exports to the
25X1A icom a vance weapons program.
25X1A 2. EODed in China Division, Far East Area, OCI,
on 11 Septe er. received his PhD 25X1A
25X1A he also taught Asian WERNes in We
Political science epar ent there:
25X1A 3. has been assigned to the China and
Far East Branch, Regional Analysis Division, Office of
Strategic Research; he has just completed an assignment
25X1A 4. has joined the Secretariat of the China
Task Force; he has just returned from an assignment-
25X1A 5. Chief, Internal Policy Branch, China
Division-!F, left on 30 September for a six weeks business and
orientation-trip-to the-Far East.
25X1A 6. Chief-, China Branch, Ph sical Sciences
and Engineering Division (PSED), OSI, was in durin 25X1A
25X10 the period 3 July-12 August 1967 to assist in 25X10
en route back to the
25X1A U he visi-e or &T al s with US officials.
STATSPEC 7. is visiting posts in the Far
East on a survey-of Far East press exploitation activities of
the U.S. Government.
25X1A 8. PSED./OSI, will depart on 28 October
25X1A for a 30 day TDY to assist in efforts to establish
targets relative to Chicom metallurgy. As partial preparation
for this assignment he has just-reviewed current technology
in a number of U.S. industrial installations.
1. On Thursday, 21,September.., Channel 4's program, Foreign
Media, was devoted to Sino-Soviet-'information media. The
presentation on Chicom media-was-fairly general and-offered
nothing not well known to-you Display materials., however,
included some Red Guard wall-posters drawn from ~"SamplesSTATSPEC
of Red Guard Publications".
2. OBGI is assisting-the Special Studies Group of the
Strategic Nuclear Branch, Ch'airmani, Joint Chiefs of Staff, in
preparing..a-special report by-supplying maps and.. charts to
accompany a briefing text prepared-by the Group. The report,
devoted to-Chicom'nuclear activities, will be ?issued ?in 150 copies.
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25X1A 25X1A
.0 L . vVU -..... --' ---- ---- - 25X18
week of October, going tri o h files of China
25X1A Branch, FE/PAC Division for data on He is 25X1B
researching a political ne was cleared
for access to these classi ie i es by Jr o ce Liaison. 25X16
4. OSI's China Committee will meet regularly henceforth
on the first Monday of each month under its new Chairman,
Chief, PSED/OSI.
25X1A
1. A new periodical, Journal of Asian History, has just
made its debut. Edited by Dr. Denis Sinor, Director, Asian
Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, and published
in West Germany by Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Postfach 349,
it is, in its own words, "intended to fill the gap which both
general historians an orientalists have long felt to exist in
the coverage of Asian Studies ... (it) intends to cover historical
research on any period and all the regions of Asia with the
exception of the Ancient Near East... The Journal is conceived as
an international organ. It will publish articles in English,
French, German, and Russian and intends to serve as a link
between the various schools of history and orientalism." It
is published twice a year. Subscription: $8.00.
2. The librarians attending the XXVII International Congress
of Orientalists were busy in a number of side activities, inter
alias
(a) Twenty librariansmet and approved the organization
of an International Association of Orientalist Libraries
"to serve as a forum for the interchange of information of
mutual interest to librarians interested in Asia and to
work towards the improvement of library facilities offered
to orientalists in all countries." James D. Pearson,
Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
the University of London,was elected President, and Yukihisa
Suzuki, University of Michigan, Secretary.
(' (b) The London School of Oriental and African Studies
has completed the microfilming of the 1950-54 issues of the
Chung-yang cheng-fa Kung-pao and the 1960-62 issues of the
:Ten-min Jih-pao So-yin, Price is $28 and $20 respectively.
(c) Fifty libraries in Britain are participating in
a Union Catalogue of Asian materials.
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3. Thomas Kuo has received a Ford Foundation grant
through the Pitt International Studies Program to do doctoral
research at the University of Pittsburg on the rise of Com-
munism in China. Mr. Kuo will concurrently be Head of the
East Asian Library there.
4. As a result of negotiations between Doak Barnett,
Columbia University, and Allan Whiting, American Consulate
General Hong Kong, the latter has agreed to permit the academic
community to microfilm its entire biographic holdings of about
three million cards. Two copies of the microfilm will be made,
one going to Columbia, the other to either Stanford University
or the University of California at Berkeley. These files and
prints from them will be available to scholars. Microfilming
should be completed by the end of the year. The Hong Kong
Consulate General will provide Columbia copies of additional
cards as they are produced.
5. The Association of Asian Studies Subcommittee on
Chinese Government and Politics held a Conference on the Micro-
societal Study of the Chinese Political stem at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 29 Aug-1 Sep 1967. There were 23 participants
representing 13 universities and the Social Science Research
Council. For Official Use Only copies of ten of the papers
presented are listed in Attachment B. They may be seen in the
Secretariat (5G19) or borrowed (x4028).
6. Translations of Chinese materials: The International
Arts and Sciences Press, 108 Grand Street., White Plains, New
York, 10601, has just added Chinese to its IASP Translation
Journals. These appear in five quarterlies (1) Chinese-Economic
Studies, (2) Chinese Law and Government, (3) Chinese Education,
TTT Chinese Studies in History and P1ilosophy, 5 Chinese
Studies in Sociology and Anthropology. The advertisement
Bulletin states, "These journals carry unabridged translations
from scholarly periodicals and sources ordinarily untapped by
existing translation services." In the specific list of s u s
the only ones which have not been regularly used by SPEC
and American Consulate General in their extensive trans a ion
programs are the Wen-wu (Cultural Relics) and K'ao-ku (archaeology).
These two have been translated occasionally. Much of the
translated material is presumably not current. While no lengthy
check was made, the first issue of the economic series contains
articles by Lu Hsun, a Hsueh Mu-ch'iao article published by
JPRS in September 1964, articles by and about Yang Chien-pai, and
T'ao chu's A Discussion of Problems of Economic Laws During the
Transitional Peri o .
The Secretariat has the announcement on file. Ask for the
IASP China Series Bulletin.
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7. John Lewis, Professor of Government at Cornell and
Director of the Cornell-London Project has announced that at
the end of the current school year he will leave Cornell to
take a position on the faculty of Stanford University. (Report
from 25X1A
8. Richard Solomon, Asst. Prof. of Political Science,
University of Michigan is beginning a research study in the
problems of political communications,within the Chicom political
system. Data for the research will center on interviews with
refugee political cadres. (Prof. Solomon contributed one of
the items in Attachment B.)
China Articles in Journals Not Devoted to the Area
(Articles Are Not Available In the Secretariat)
The Chinese Threat to World Order, Sukich Nimmanheminda,
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, July 1967
Significance of the Rift Between the Chinese Communist Regime and
the Soviet Union, Chow Shu-kai, (same source)
Bleeding Land and Maoism, Alain Bouc, Atlas, October 1967
(Translated from Le Monde, Paris)
Mao's Men in Burma, Atlas, October 1967 (Reprinted from
Mainstream Weekly, New Delhi)
Foreign Trade of Communist China, Communist Affairs, (University
of Southern California) May-June 1967
Chiang Ching: Mao's Wife and Deputy, Communist Affairs, May-June
1967
Maoism, K. Ramachandran, International Studies (New Delhi) April
1967
The Bitter Tea of Dr. Tsien ("How We Gave Communist China Its
Top Missile Expert"), by Milton Viorst, Esquire, September 67
China in Asia, C.P. Fitzgerald, China's Cautious American Policy,
Ishwer C. Ojha, The Cultural Revolution and China's Economy,
Chu-yuan Cheng, China's Military Posture, S.M. Chiu, Moscow and
the Current Chinese Crisis, Franz Michael, The Continuing Chinese
Revolution, Harold M. Vinache, Current History, September 1967
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Possible Ramifications of the,?Chinese Revolution, Harvy Nelson,
Center for Research in Social Systems, SCI Info Resp. No 1013,
July 1967
The Deserts of Central Asia (The Hohsi Corridor, Tsaidam, and
Tarim Basin, (Pastyni Tsentral'noy Azii), by M. P. Petrov,
translated by JPRS (JPRS: 42,772, 26 Sept 67, 420 pp)
The Espionage Establishment; Saturday Evening Post, 21 October
1967 (Covers Soviet and Chinese-Systems)
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Attachment A
CTF Newsletter #5
1967 Chicom Journals Received
ATSPEC
(Up to 31 August 1967)
1. CHIEH-FANG-CHUN HUA-PAO (Liberation 11
(Peipin
) S/M
Nos
1-5
8
g
onthly Army Pictorial)
2
.
,
,9,11-14
. CHIEH-FANG-CHUN WEN-I (Liberation
(Peipin
) M
th
5
Nos
2-6
g
on
ly Army Literature)
.
3.
CHINA PICTORIAL
(Peiping) Monthly
7
Nos. 1-7
4.
CHINA RECONSTRUCTS
(Peiping) Monthly
6
Nos. 1-6
5.
CHINESE LITERATURE
(Peiping) Monthly
7
Nos. 1-7
6
C
'
.
HINA
S MEDICINE
7
(Peiping) Monthly
HUA-H
4
Nos. 1-4
.
SUEH KUNG-YEH (Chemical Industry)
(Peiping) Monthly
2
Nos. 3,4
8.
HUNG-CH'I (Red Flag)
(Peiping) Irregular
11
Nos. 1-11
9.
JEN-MIN HUA-PAO (People's Pictorial)
(Peiping) Monthly
8
Nos. 1-8
10.
JIN-MIN CHUGOKU (People's China)
(Peiping) Monthly (Japanese)
8
Nos. 1-8
11.
LITTERATURE CHINOISE (French)
(Peiping) Monthly
2
Nos. 1, Spec. Ed.
12.
NUNG-TS'UN CH'ING-NIEN (Agricultural
(Peiping) S/Monthly Village Youth)
4
Nos. 7-10
13.
NUNG-YEH CHI-HSIEH CHI-SHU
(Peiping) (Agricultural Machinery
Techniques)
1
No. 2/3 May
14. NUNG-YEH CHI-SHU (Agricultural
(Peiping) Monthly Technology) 4 Nos. 1-4
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15. PEKING INFORMA (Spanish)
(Peiping) Weekly
16. PEKING INFORMATION (French)
(Peiping) Weekly
17. PEKING REVIEW
(Peiping) Weekly
18. WU-HSIEN-TIEN Radio (Wireless)
(Peiping) Monthly
33 Nos. 1-33
32 Nos. 1-32
34 Nos. 1-34
1 No. 1
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Attachment B
CTF Newsletter #5
Papers From the Conference on the Micros,pcietal Study of The
Chinese Political System
(Numbers preceding item are China Task Force Reference Numbers)
Cy. 23 Revolutionizing Chinese Youth: A Study of Chung-Kuo
Ch'ing-Nien, by James R. Townsend, University of.
California, Berkeley.
24 Conflict, Authority, and Mao's Effort to Reintegrate
the Chinese Polity, by Richard Ho. Solomon, Center of
Chinese Studies, and Department of Political Science,
The University of Michigan, August 1967.
25 The Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China: A
Case Study of Wuhan, 1949-1965, Yinmaw Kau, Brown
University.
26 A Preliminary Study of Local Leaders in Communist
China, by Michel Oksenberg.
27 The Yenan Legacy: The Mass Line, Mark Selden,
Washington University.
28 The Centralized Control of the Collectives in the
Post Great Leap Period, Robert J. Birrell, Indiana
University.
29 Chinese Cadre and Peasant Behavior Under Conditions
of Insecurity and Deprivation: The Grain SupplyCrisis
of the Spring of 1955, Thomas P. Bernstein.
30 The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success: Rural
Influence Patterns, 1923-1945, Roy Hofheinz, Jr.
31 Social Welfare and the Chinese Worker, Joyce K.
Kallgren, University of California, Berkeley.
32 The Mobilization Techniques of the Kiangsi Soviet
Government, Ilpyong J. Kim, Indiana University.
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