CONFIRMS ESTABLISHMENT OF ASIA LIAISON COMMITTEE; CCF TRAINING VIET MINH TROOPS

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• Publication Date: August 18, 1950

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO,
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China; International DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Military; Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 29 � 31 Jul 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
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CONFIRMS ESTABLISHMENT OF ASIA LIAISON COMMITTEE;
CCF TRAINING VIET MINT TROOPS
SET UP LIAISON COMMITTEE AT PEIPING -- Hong Kong Kung-shang Jih-pao, 29 Jul 50
Bombay, 29 July-- The establishment of a liaison committee (lien-lo wei-
yuan-hui) of the Asian Communist parties at Peiping with authority to coordi-
nate and direct all Communist movements in Asia and the Far East was confirmed
by a member of the Indian Communist Party living in Bombay.
He explained that a meeting of the Communist parties of Southeast Asia
was held at Calcutta in 1948, at which time, the Indian Communist Party was
placed in charge of directing the people's liberation movements in the South-
east AniAn remintrima. Its dismal failure, not only in Burma but in India, to
gain the support of the masses vexed the Moscow authorities, he said, and as
a. result, a committee was set up in Peiping.
Another member of the Indian Communist Party also reported that the Indian
Communist Party Politburo is now headed by an explorer named Lun-la-ti-fu ghi-
nese approximation of a foreign namg. His assignment to this position, it is
reported, was made to improve the efficiency of the Indian Communist Party.
It is also reported that the Far East Cominform is now planning to assem-
ble the Communist forces of Southeast Asia in the near future to launch its
planned military actions in Southeast Asia against the US, the Dutch, and the
British.
10,000 VIET MINE TRAIN IN YUNNAN -- Hong Kong Kung-shang jih-pao, 31 Jul 50
Saigon, 29 July -- It is reliably reported that a Chinese Communist force
commanded by Ch'en Keng is now training and equipping 10,000 Viet Minh troops
in Yunnan .in preparation for military operations to be launched in Viet Nam
within the next 5 months.
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A French military intelligence source also reported that the Viet Minh
forces have abandoned their past guerrilla tactict;.and are no employing more
direct military attacks to harass the French troops stationed in northern Viet
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Nam. It is estimated that in the mountains in northern Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh
has about 40,000 well-equipped regular army troops and about 60,000 well-trained
militia ready for action. The militia, it is said, are equipped with arms con-
fiscated. from the KMT Nationalist troops.
TIBET CONSCRIPTING MEN TO OPPOSE CCF INVASION -- Hong Kong Kung-shang Jih-pao,
30 Jul 50
Calcutta, 29 July -- It is reported that Tibet is now conscripting men in
preparation to oppose the Chinese Communist forces now assembling on the China-
Tibet border.
300,000 CHINESE PARTICIPATING IN KOREAN WAR -- Hong Kong Hsing-tao Jih-pao,
31 Jul 50
Mexico City, 29 July -- I-lo-la fdhinese apprcximation of a foreign namg,
a Catholic priest who arrived here from the Far East, stated that more than
300,000 Chinese Communist troops are new engaged in the Korean war. These
troops, he said, were armed with modern Soviet equipment and are being advised
by Soviet officers, He further stated that while he was in Korea, he witnessed
the training of both CCF and North Korean troops under the direction of Soviet
officers,
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