ACTIVITIES OF THE CHINESE MERCHANTS IN THAILAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200020008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REORT cD NO.
COUNTRY Thai land/China
DATE DISTR. 13. JUL 50
SUBJECT Activities of the Chinese Merchants in Thailand NO. OF PAGES 1
1. Most of the Chinese merchants in Thailand who formerly supported the Kuo-
mintang believe that the CHIANG Kai-shek Government will soon collapse.
Accordingly,, the merchants feel that it would be unwise to openly express
anti-Communist sentiments.
In Bangkok, on 27 May 1950, a prominent Hong Kong merchant, S. K. Sung,
Managing Director* of the Teh Hu Sunfluh Co., Ltd., exporters and im-
porters, Suite 301-320 Marina House, Hong Kong, privately stated that the
Chinese Communist Government is oppressing the people of China. Sung
cited the matter of the appropriation of scarce foodstuffs to supply the
Chinese Communist Army. This action, Sung stated, has caused the Chinese
people to evacuate the towns and cities and to form bandit bands to
harrass the Communist authorities. Sung further stated that he did not
care who governed China and that he would be willing to cooperate with
the Chinese-Communists if they did not oppress the Chinese people. Sung
r3turned to Hong Kong on 29 May 1950.
3. Bangkok Chinese merchants are shipping an increasing amount of rice to
Hong Kong.
4. Chinese merchants come from Hong Kong to Thailand as ordinary Chinese
immigrants. They obtain a temporary visitor's permit through a reliable
guarantor who makes the arrangements with the Thai Immigration Department.
The Chinese merchants usually remain in Thailand without interference from
the Immigration -'epartment.
5. ? There are still many of the so-called "Free Chinese79 gathered in Bangkok.
The Chinese Communists are attempting to contact these former anti.Japanese
groups to enlist them in future underground movements against Thailand.
25X1A + Comment. The 1950 Hong Kong Trade Index also lists M. F.
V`Yeissenflush as a managing director of the Sunfluh Company:,
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