IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT, CHINA, LIAISON MISSION/OFFER OF US$130,000 FOR SINO REFUGEE REPATRIATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02071349
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01595
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954

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CEINTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IN ORMATION REPORT
Goveramen.
Offer of
China, Liaison ::issionj
For Sino Refugee T;epatri-
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1. The Imperial Covernment, China Liaison mission, known to be a reli,-ious and
political party, recently forparded a note to the Hongkong Rennie's Mill Refugee
Camp Relief committee, offer44 a donation of 3,000 taels (4,0oo oz.) of gold,
equivalent to US$130,000, tcpe ear.-narked especially for the repatriation to
Formosa of refugee-soldiers ( Dationalists) now in Rennie's Mill Camp, Hong Kong.
2. In two notes, sent to the Ohillese Chamber of Commerce of Hongkon and forwarded
by them to the Rennie's mall 'yam committee, the Liaison mission stated that
upon instructions received from their "Recency Co:ncil'', a donatio.-J of 3,000 Laels
of ,;,old to he used for repatr:Aition purposes woud. be made followi-.ac the nomple-
tieu of arranementp between -their party and the (_;rmosa Liou.
3. Tang ;'7an-lcui, Luardian ih Hongkong of the Imperia Ooverpment, China, L7;.aison
mission, said that the "party' Was first established on Suaday. Ueptember 16, 1951
at Yiyang district, Ronan prov'ince.
4. The party, which is of a religious and political nature, was said, to be advocating
the establishment of an imperi
government in China.
5. Operating "somewhere in China" the party, Mr. Tang said, was under the authority
of a "Regency CounciSl." at present underground. He said that the party drew its
strength from many peasant synroathizers and that it also had strong military ties
both in the China mainland and ih Formosa.
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Tf arrangements can be completed, he said, an application would Ce made to Hong
Kong authorities for the import Of the 3,000 taels of gold which, added, would
come from their (the party's) stockpile In Formosa.
Robert Der (variant of Char or Tee), chairman of the executive 2ommittee of the
Rennie's Kill Refugee Cago Rejje conunittee, and chairman of the Kowloon Chamber
of Commerce, into whose hands the offer was placed, swid LI a re!nrn notE, to the
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Liaison mission that ne had repiid that his comanittes would be glad i.
arlrange a meeting between this party and the ?ree Assoo.iaktion
(Formosa), the natural body to :omplete any urrancoment,
8. Mx.. Der, commenting on the offer, continued hc:;ever, that et present
was no tangible evidence of thegenuinerEss Jf the of.Zer, and unless soph�
concrete proof, apart from the notes, was fort71;comir, he was for..!e to
slightly skeptical of the materialization of the taels oful
donation.
. At present, Mr. Der said, there are ahout 6,C;; de-oolrliers at
Mill Camp.
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