CHINESE COMMUNIST TRADE THROUGH MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300680009-1
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NOM
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY China/Macao/Iiong Kong
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Trade through Itacao
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1. On 7 August 1951 there were 70 sets of 10x20 tires and 10 radio units, each
consisting of a transmitter and receiver, in the warehouse of the Lain Fu
() Trading Company in Macao. These goods had beea purchased in early
August by the Bain 1"'u Trading Company on behalf of the . wangtung Foreign
Trade Bureau, and were soon to be sent to Canton. The radio units had been
bought in bong x.ong for HK 43,000 per unit, and the tires from the Chien Ho
( ) Trading Company, 1 October Fifth Street, Macao, for ILK X3,500 per
set.
2. On 7 August there were 500 pieces of steel plate, some 3 inches by 2 inches
and the rest 5 inches by 2~ inches, in the Chenhsing rrarehouae, Ch' ingehou
districtl, Macao, awaiting shipment to Caxton. This material had been
purchased in Hong Kong by the an Kuang Company, and sent to cacao on 25 July
on the SS TA LAI.
According to an employee of the Ping Chang Comparj2 of Macao, this company
in early August 1951 was trying to arrange a barter exchange with the Macao
Government of 600 tons of rice for military supplies to be sent to Coi unist
China. The South China Foreign Trade Bureau had sent this rice to Tiiaaao from
Canton on five Chinese Communist vessels, on 8 August.
4. According to a Chinese Communist army officer, on 10 August there were 200
tons of gasoline, truck parts and drugs in the Shuinan (ij` I ) -warehouse,
Kongmoon. These goods had been sent to Kongmoon from Canton on 5, 7 and 8
August, and were soon to be sent by water to Hainan.3
5. In early August the Chinese Communists were planning to use Tewansharn (Great
Ladrone) Island (113-44, 21-56), in the Pearl River Delta area, as an
unloading point for vessels from the Philippines, Panama, Canada, Ryukyus
and Japan carrying cargoes of materials difficult to obtain in Hong Kong
because of the embargo. wharves Were being built on the island, as well as
warehouses where cargoes could be stored pending shipment to the mainland.
The bricks and lumber required for the construction of the wharves and
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warehousas was obtained from Ch?jenshan (, !j rl.d ), '1's' uiwei f113-30, 2'W-'-16)
~;nd flsiaoohou (113-2O? ; 3,6-04) villages; Chungahan,, by dismantling teukp..ces
ira those areas,
G. vn 9 august there were apixoximatoly bi)O drums of gasoline in +arnbc;u o 2
of the Chinese Communist South airaa import and .4xpor?t Company, The ware=,
house, which 5is in. Tay urt k.' cu (); yy )~ j . i''angts"un (; j~ .4 )? in the
suburbs of Canton, was guarded by a plstocn cf (-Ilinese G", mmunist troops.,
The &aso.lx.no had been purchased in . scao aad shipped to Canton.
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Co,,ment., There have been m&ay reports of shipments direct
from i,-iacao to 4ongmoon; shipment, from Canton to liongmoon roundabout,
if the goods in question were obtained in either ,,acari or Long Kong,
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