COMMUNIST TAKEOVER IN THE CANTON AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500150002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. HUANG I-po ( '' ), a resident of Chungshnn, first went to Macao,
where he persuaded the Mechanics Union to hold a demonstration in favor
of the Communists, and then to Canton to -nay his respects to the Communist
authorities there.
LU Chao-te ( )alas chosen to represent the peon-le of Chungshan
(113-36D 22-22) at the time of the tat over of that city.
3? By 20 October the Shen Ch'uan (114-03, 2232) railroad workers were completely
registered with the new authorities and were bark to.work. The following men
were kept on to serve In the administration.
a. TSOAI Jung-chih station master.
b. LU Chem-chih (/? A va ), chief of mechanics,
S} U iei chief of construction.
'IAI Hsieh ( . ), leader of the railway workers union.
CHV'1,2N Ming (ft 3 ).. who wader the Nationalist: was" chief of the records office
of the Bureau of Public Safet,- of Cantons has been a,nnointed to sunnervise the
Canton census for the Communist authorities. All Canton 'police have been
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Director of Central Intef!igence ac, Its
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