AIR ACTIVITIES, CANTON AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900280001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/05/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00990028000
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Air Activities, Canton Area
25X1A
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
8 Jan. 1952
NO. OF PAGES
1
NO. OF ENCLS.
1LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. As of 10 December, 9 14IG-15ea, 18 YAK a, 4 twin-engine transports, 12 trainers,
and 10 obsolete or damaged planes were at White Cloud Airfield. The field
was guarded by one battalion of troops. About 200 ground crew were stationed
there. Thirty to fifty Air Force personnel were coming daily from Canton at
8 a.m. for flight or mechanical training and returning at 3 p.m. Flight per-
sonnel assigned to White Cloud were living in the CNAC building, V aipo ing-
nanlu (i..?qs i -)., Canton. Soviet advisers were living on the second
floor of the Oikwan Hotel, Canton. Three to five of these advisers were
going daily to White Cloud.
2. Landing strips at Ch0amingshan (; 40 f) and Nantsun (112-54, 22-13) have
been under repair since November. They will be auxiliaries for White Cloud
and Tienho upon their completion prior to the end of March 1952.
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