CHINA COAST INCIDENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02014598
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2023
• Case Number: F-2022-01594
• Publication Date: July 29, 1954

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op fighters shot down
ish DC-4 airliner off coast
IL Of ed up by
US
amphibian,,t ilippines.
US citizen lost.
July, US carrier bombers,
earehing this general area, clasIled
with Chinese prop fighters.
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es offshore.
Our planes downs
t that
coastal waters.
3 July attach (air1th9r is I
pearance'Chineae Comiui.ist
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B. Suichi,
fields,
runway ,
.of China's largest
3-10 thousand foot
surface on 20 May).
If pavv, -ould be ideal for
jet opvv,,
C. Only thr- fields on Hainan,
all poo but usable by fighter
in emergency--Hoihow, Sanya'
and Fob.
D. Unknown number TU-2 bombers
and LA-11 fighters, both prop
types, moved Suichi (from East
China) 20 July.
IV Move planes Stiehl, attack airliner,
both seem related desire protect
Bloc shipping en route China.
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Since late June, when Tu
seized by Nationalists south
of Formosa, no Bloc ship from
Europe has tried reach North
China ports.
Shipping bound southern port
(Whampoa) since 10 July totals
at least eight vessels (in-
cluding two Soviet tankers,
Polish freighters).
This deflection Bloc shipping
hurts Peiping--normally 30,000
: 'tons .European cargo a month
used in North China, Manchuria.
D. Example protection effort:
Soviet tanker (probably
Leningrad) given extensive
MIG-15 air cover whilu QLitt;r-
ng Pearl River.
TOP
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E. Soviet tanker Batumi probably
near Hainan 23 July; this may
have prompted attack on
airliner.
F. Immediately after US planes
buzzed Polish freighters on
26 July, escorting gunboat
apparently sent distress
message, as Chinese fighters
arrived in 25 minute
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Concern for Bloc shiPP n Yowing
Tuapse incident, clear in these
Communist propaganda and in notes
.to UK, US.
Recent charge in intensified
propaganda is that US support-
ing Nationalists in acts
piracy.
Unprecedented apology to UK
claiming airliner
mistaken
for Nationalist aircraft,
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Polish ships and US support
Nationalist interception,
robbery "merchant ships o
various nations sailing t
China for trade."
VI. Chinese protest warns US cease "suc
aggression" or "suffer
uences."
Chinese Communists now
vesels in South China waters.
May force issue by attempting
Strait to North China
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Strength in East china more
than enough take Tachen or
Matsu any time.
D. Further possibility- a r
attacks on Formosa.
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