1. GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR, SHANGHAI 2. EPIDEMIC OF PARASITIC ORIGIN, KIANGSU-CHEKIANG BORDER AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900250007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Germaa Prisoners of tiar, Shanghai
P. Epidemic of Parasitic Origin,
:iangsu.Clio -iang horder Area
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A Chinese employee of the Sharghai Telephone Company reported that the
Soviets in Shanghai were setting up an independent telephone system for
their own use. One laborer employed on this project was a German prisoner
of war who had "USSR" tattooed on his neck and left wrist. The Chinese
telephone employee said that there were f rr m three to five thousand
German prisoners of war, mostly technicians of various kinds, working in
Shanghai, and that more were arriving; at regular intervals.
The Chinese Communist authorities in Shanghai were mobilizing, in late
April 1950, physicians, nurses and medical students 'or service in the
Kiangsu-Cho'.diang border area, to treat Chinese Communist soldiers
sufferin~ from parasite diseases. The doctors were to be restricted to
their pots and not permitted to leave the area until their patients were
completely cured. The disease was reported to have reached epidemic
proportions, but the exact number of persons affected was unknown,
The Shanghai authorities had also, under the supervision of the Soviet
physicians,, boroyev and Lossovsky*, com!nandeered pharmaceutical and drug
products and pharmacists from the China Biological. Laboratories, New
,asiatic, Chemical Works, and Sine Laboratories and Company, all of
Shanghai, ana sent them to troop stations on the AiarGSU-Chekiang border
'co accelerate the manufacture of vaccines** for the army.
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These names are approximations based on Chinese phonetic renditions.
the sense of any preventive medication.
In view of the re ooted parasitic nature of the
disease, it is probable that the &" used the term "vaccine" in
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CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
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Director of Central Intelligence to the
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