POLITICAL INFORMATION: MANCHURIAN PERSONALITIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300260003-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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C NTR CNT LL ENCE GROUP
MTE +WWGENC REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Pol.itict 1 Inform :ions Manchurian Personalities
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DATE
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7 October 1946
DI s7. 29 January 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
note; The continual a ition for native Manchurians
?sther than southerners in ii,iportant posts in F,"anchur?ia makes the following
" 1-4e of ir+.teres+-- There is no indication, however. that any of these
wan will 25 ` Positions of signi''iaant power at the present time.)
(- Notes Once of thc- primary faults that the native people of
Manchuria find with the present Kuorm:intanL; r?egrime is its failure to appoint
native `,anchurions as political leaders. Ihiny Manchurians have received
;,nlitical appointmer.ts9 but the majority of these appointments, according to
t ource, carry no political power,, This report gives names and information
on the man whom Source says are re-arded as true representatives of the
poopie of Manchuria, wad who therefore should be given "actual" power.)
d Chief' Inspector of the Chan;,ahun Railroad Company.
x at iorirr to the f?orthoast.. member of the Political Council in the Northeast;,
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is a member of the Presidium of the Peoiple's Political Council. Pacification
;fn,d c.onnecti one with the Soviets for ~!ui.te ' . ? cna- time 4 They have great
rcispect for him (c-6)
ci -a o i t Pact in 19)4.5,,) (C=l) He spent two years in Moscow and has had
bray (Shanghai Mote: Previcusly reported president.)
the Chi.ne,.e Plenipotentiary Representative to the Sinop,Soviet
rzi * e,craaE, (Shanghai Note; The conference which set up the
(Sh.t.ghai
~bc;tea Previously reported Deputy t'irector.) (All above C~2) He is familiar
t th the problems of Manchuria and has often participated in political dis-
cussions with General barshall and with CHOU En-laic. Before the "Mukden
1::ic:ide_it" he was president of t the . ;r ioulture anC Commercial Department
,n i3o~. in Governor of Liaoning Provinces, (C-6) inspector of the Chinese
1Chia-then
-~E~ .ia 1Tiae= reai e t a1' i4-North-east hconotdc Coithttee Fifteen years
a;o he was Vice-'resident of the Foreign Mlffairti department of the National
?;.ovor?rmcnt Grad i hineso representative to the League of Nations. After tho
"...u :den incident" he fled to Chungking and was appointed member of the
3oDless Political Council. (C-1) He is 50 years old:, (First sentence Cc6;
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t I~Atd isi3 mamti?3 offihe Northeast Poi.i.ti.cal Council., (C=2)
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&XTJ RNAL SURVEY DETACHMENT Li
(Shanghai Note: Previouely reported as member of the Political Co mission
to the Northeast.) Ftefore the "Mu :den Incident" he was Governor of Kirin
Province and Commander of the Arn.des there, After the defeat of the Old
Iarshal4 he becam the leader of Manchurian He did not oppose CIIANG Hsueh4-
eng3s rise to povwer~ After the' "Mukden Incident" he lived in Tientsin for
ten years a The Japanese attempted to get him to work for them but he would
note (C-6) The Generalissimo thinks very highly of CHANG0 (C-2) He is 66
years old. (Cm6)
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General WAN Fu-lin ( Ate
WAN is a raembei-of t e P tical Council in the Northeast (C-6) 'He is 66
years old (C-1) and in good health for a man of his age. (C-6., rest of pars -'
graph C-1) He is very wall known to the Generalissimo0 After the "Mukden
Incident" and during the vino--.Japan.ese War he served brilliantly in the
Chinese Army Before the "Mukden Incident" has was Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the Army In Iieilungchirsng Province,,
j . WANG Shia-h?~n ( )
C_-o YJANG is a member of the Political Couw iI in the Northeast
(Shanghai Note: Previously reported member of Politic;?l Affairs Committee
or of Political Commission of Pre ei.dent'a headquarters in Northeast?)
Before the "Llukden Incident" he was Governor of Kirin Province and Secretary-
General to CHAUG Hsueh-lisng,> At one time he was a staff officer under the
Generalissimo. WANG is one of the prominent military leaders of ?ianrhuriah
#o LIU Cho ( ` _' i
G L]U is a member o the board of Directors of the Changchun. Railroad Company0
Before the "LIukden Incident" h.e was a m mi,er of the J oa.rd of the Chinese
:Eastern Railroad and president of the Education Department of the Manchurian
Governments r / hand 1. s ot,m: Pre -7r oucly reported !banister of
"f-3^j?tio ?n the Chinese Governments) He is very much respected by the
Soviets He is # fnsars ol_do
(Shanghai Note: 14 seCSrd.;iYle, to the
China. Handbook 1944. LI U was born in i888,)
7 . WAN I
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go is ay mb rV of the Board of Directors of the Changchun Railroad Company
and a member of the Diplomatic Affair? Department of the Chinese Government,
shanghai. Vote: This man is not to be confused with the Communist
general Qf the same name,)
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