CHINESE COMMUNIST MILITARY AND POLITICAL INFORMATION, KWANGTUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007000410006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Order of Battle and L.iilitary Information
1o On 5 February about 109000 troops of the 27 Army,,-3 Field Arrr9 and the
Kuangtung-Kwangsi Colt= were in the Pa,oan (113-569 22-32) area,' In late
January there were 159000 troops there., some of whom were transferred to an
unknown destination via the 77anshan Islandso2
2, On 6 February., the 219 299-and 31 Arraies93 3 Field Arny9 were in the area
of Paoan9 Tungkcaan (11369 2302)9 Iluiyang (3.14?269 2305)9 Bias Bay., and
Swa;;ovro Thep strength; including elements of the 2 Field Army., was about
1209000 mend About 20g000 troops of the 29 Army arrived in Kwangtung from
Chekiang via Hunan (sic) and are now stationed in the Paoan=Tungkcuan.IIuiyang
area,
3. On 3 Fobruary about 30 light tanks were on the highrray between Huiyang and
Pao
22 ;7 and AoV ouchiang k3.14-329 22-40).
Srratowo They were off to the side of the highway and were camouflaged with
trees and grass mats?
On 5 February an armored car corpany of 20 vehicles., formerly stationed at
Shaho the northeastern suburb of Canton., was, 1ransf .rr .d fn T nsb3d (3111-211,
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5? Early in February TSEI1G Sheng9 c er of the a to a si. Colmn
was plaraiing soon to dispatch about 100 members of his "Daredevil. Assassins"
to Paoan an ro ~e to a B9newrby foreign o" T men were tz?a3ned at
Sanhsiang 3and Chungahan (u3'36, 22-22)v The'head ers of the
cola was at Shnhch Q i. (313-222, 22-30),, Chungshan I1sienn,
The 'rom&al of the arsenal-from Shihching (U3-159 2343) to Chihchiang
(109379 27-27) was to be completod by the end of l ho
Air Information
7. On 2 Fab
30 Soviet engineers and advisors arrived at Santsao Island
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(713- a 22- to enlarge the facilities of the airfields ' about 31 January
50 crates of planes and spare parts arrived at the island?
8 On 6 February seven jet planes flex over Canton at about 2,9000 feet in single
echelon f atione
Purchase of Landing Craft
9? Early in Feb the Chinese C 'sts ordered a. tae number of landing
craft from 8h r eo anies in the Shen P",-,, and Niu Chvih
than a a of Koff ono Late Jain they ordered Pao landing
craft of &u% 100 tons each from the Ching Chi (~ ) shipyard in Kowloon.
Political Information
10 o In early January the South China Sub-Bureau ordered all its worki-ors in Hong
Kong and Macao to return to Canton for' a short period of political training
to be c a~pleted by the-end of February. The workers were then to seta
to Hong Kong and Macao.
1? Early in February the K agtung Public Se6vrity Bureau decided to hold.' an
o urgency meeting in Canton on 7 February and advised the Han Oou (210-20,
2003) Public Security Office to send reports to the meetings
12 a Early in February political workers in speeches to the villages of the Pao=
area stated that Hong Kong would be "liberated" in three months. Posters
calling for the return of the Hew Territories appeared late, in January in all
railroad stations from Shihlung (113-51, 23=07) southrrarda7
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