CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL OF FISHERMEN, KWANGTUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016300330003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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FE8 1952 DL-nAA
CLASSIFICATION
.INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Conmiunist Control of
Fishermen, Kwangtung
1 INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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DATE DISTR, 5 February 1953
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. In November 1952 the Chinese Communists controlled fishermen in the coastal
areas of Kwangtung through the General Frontier Defense Office of the Kwangtung
Public Security d3ureau.
2. An island fisherman branch association was established in the Wanshan Islands
(113-468 21-56) to take charge of the fishermen on these islands and
Tunghao 0.13-1.4., 22-10)o
3. Fishermen direction associations were established in the following places to take
charge of fishermen in their respective areas:
as T?angchiahuan (113-36, 22-2).
b. Wantzu (112-36, 23-50)
c. Sa,ntsao (113-22, 22-00)
d. In the coastal areas of T?aishan (115-189 23-58):
Tuhu (112-16, 22-44)
Ch?ihhsi (6357/3405)
uanghai (112-4.8. 21-58)
Haiyen (112-34, 21-50)
Hsiach?uan (0007/1557)
Shangch Y ua.n (0006/1557)
These fishermen direction associations were under the command of the Second
Frontier Defense Branch Bureau.
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e. In the coastal areas of Yangchiang (111-53, 21-52)0
Taao (112-179 21-47)
Turigp'ingh.su (1l2-14, 21-44)
Chap'o (i11-1t6, 21-37)
These fishermen direction associations were under the command of the
Second Frontier Defense Branch Bureau,
-. Each fishermen direction association was headed by a chief and a deputy chief.
Under them were five sections, covering political matters, investigation,
organization, production and general affairs. Each of these sections had
a chief, a deputy chief, and four to six clerks.
Fishing personnel, both men and women, were required to join units of ten
fishing boats which were headed by Communist-trained fishermen. All
fishermen were required to report any unusual movements or strangers they
might see in their areas.
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6. On 1.1 November LI Ch'ing-yang (2621/1987/2768), chief of the Fifth Frontier
Defense .Bureau. in Ch'ienshan (113-32, 22-14) called a fishermen's meeting in
Wantzu, w~iich was attended by about 170 registered fishermen. LI-announced
that fish could be sent to Macao only through the Communist-sponsored Wantzu
fishing guild. LI Shun-k'ai (7812/7211/7030) and about nine other fishermen
opposed the decision but were immediately arrested on the charge of violating
the people's interest. At midnight of the same day approximately thirty
fishermen took their ships to Macao, saying that they would rather be jobless
than controlled by the Communists.
Comment. According to the New York Times of 8 January 1953, more
an 4UU skiing junks, with some 3,000 persons aboard., sailed into Hong Kong
in November 1952 after a mass flight from the Chungshan area of Kwangtung.
Chinese Communist control meansures in that area were said to have provoked
the fishermen's flight. The article quoted the fishermen as saying that
control measures fixed the price and sale of their fish and required them to
report to local. fishing associations at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily.
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