MAIL CENSORSHIP IN SOUTH CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700380002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTE-LLIGE.NCE AGEN'C'Y
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na
tloi al Defenee.of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
bylaw. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION ` .
COUNTRY
PLACE ACQUIRED
Mail Censorship in South China
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 3, April- 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES 50X1-HUM
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
the South China Military_District headquarters was main-
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the Public Security Bureaus and LI Ming (2621/2494), chief of the Organization
Department of the South China Sub-Bureau,' ' i1 $e aS the'mAii and telegraph
censorship office of the district.? Most of the 125 workers in the censorship
office were from. the Public Security Bureau and the South China Sub-Bureau
and worked day and night on 12 hour shifts.
2.. The censorship office had the following sections!
a. The mail and telegraph section had 86 workers. CHANG Hai-p?eng (1728/3189/
7720) was chief and LI Yu (2621/6877) wea.,deputy chief. It included three
divisions as follows-. the foreggn language division, with LU (41.51) Shao-
chi as head and covering German, Japanese, English, French, Indian, and
other languages the periodical and newspaper. section, with WANG Tung-yu
(3769/2639/7183) as head; and the mail division, with OUYANG Tsu-tso
(2962/7122/4809/1563) as head, covering ordinary mails which included all
mail to and. from Hong Kong and Macao, registered mail, and parcel post.
b. The telegra h and monitoring section had 39 workers. HSU Sung-nien
(2621/39$5) was deputy chief. This
LI Ch?
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628) was chief and
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section was in charge of wire and wireless monitoring and the reading of
messages.
c. The technical section was headed by CHANG Lun (1728/654+) and his deputy,
LIN Ying-ya (2651/5391/0068)-. This section had 36 ultra-violet lamps, five
radio receivers, and 1 direction finders.
All mail going to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asia was censored. Any
suspicious mail was recorded and il'ivestigated by the Public Security,Bureau and
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the South China Sub-Bureau. Those who received or sent any volume of mail were
usually closely watched.
All mail from South China, North China, and Central China went to the Canton
post office before leaving the country. All letters going to Southeast Asia,
the United States, and Japan were individually censored. Internal mail was
censored according to the interest or attention of the respective censor.
5. Communist official documents or letters were not censored if they carried the
proper code and were addressed dorrectly. Special attention was paid to
letters of those whose names were on the black list in the South China
Sub-Bureau or in the public security offices in various localities. Such
letters were examined under ultra-violet light.
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