AMERICAN LEADERS OF GUERRILLAS IN KENGTUNG STATE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02732379
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2020
• Case Number: F-2018-02220
• Publication Date: June 5, 1942

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MWORANDUM
To: colonel Goodfellow
From: William H. Vanderbilt
Subject: Alghan Lusey
August 20, 1942
Yr. Lusey, who has just arrived from Chungking where he was
originally sent by the FIS Section of COI last March, was
brought to Mr. Price's office this morning by Er. Murphy. He
talked with various representatives of this office, including
Mr. Murphy, Mr. Price and Captain Devlin. This afternoon,
Colonel Huntington, Captain Devlin, Mr. Price and I talked
with him for approximately an hour and a half.
Mr. Lusey ha a a wealth of information regarding conditions and
the situation in China. He has recently made a 7,000 kilometer
trip into Southeastern China from Chungking by truck. He left
Chungking on August 1st and did not see Major Eifler.
The highlights of his information are the following:
1. The United States Army is not well-liked by the Chinese
Government, first, because neither the U. S. Army nor
the Chinese are receiving any substantial amount of sup-
plies and materials (the U. S. had only five medium bombers
in China when Er. Lusey left.), and second, because there
appears to the Chinese to be far too much jealousy among
the many United States Generals now in China.
As a result of this feeling, Mr. Lusey cites the following:
Just before leaving he was ,-,;iven, by a secret source, an
opportunity to look over a report and map for five hours.
This map and report covered Japanese dispositions of troops
and plans for the invasion of Siberia. He was given this
opportunity only after his specific promise that he would
not turn over the information to the United States Army
or the United States Naval Observer in China, but would
bring it directly to Colonel Donovan.
General Stilwell, when he first arrived,was extremely
popular with the Chinese, but there is now a feeling among
the Chinese and many Americans in China also that General
Chenault, a great national hero to the Chinese, is going
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to be removed and replaced. Such action would be deeply
resented by the Chinese.
2. In discussing the Eifler mission, Ir. Lusey stated that
he felt that a military group of that nature, operating
under the direction of the United States Army in China,
would have absolutely no success. The really important
man in China, both for S. I. and S. 0. operations, is
General Tai Lee, the head of General Chang Kai Shek's
personal Information and Intelligence Service. General
Tai Lee has about 300,000 Chinese under his command, 150,000
of whom are agents. No one can move to any point in China
without General Tai Lee's knowledge (and consent).
Commander idles, USN, sent by the Navy Department to China
on a special mission, and Mr. Lusey made the recent trip
to Southeastern China together and they both net General
Tai Lee. Neither the United States Ambassador, anyone at
the Embassy, nor our Naval and Military Attaches, have
ever met General Tai Lee. He meets practically no foreignors
and very few Chinese. General Tai Lee was most cooperative
and apparently has confidence in both Commander Miles and
Mr. Lusey. Commander Miles has been able to establish a
training school for sabotage, principally maritime sabotage,
where he now has about twenty-two students.
Mr. Lusey, while understanding the necessity of having
Major Eifler and his mission report to General Stilwell,
believes that they should be put on "detached duty", con-
tact Commander Miles, and in this way he thinks they would
be allowed to establish S. 0. schools, guerrilla schools,
etc., as well as actually work in the field with the
Chinese.
3. Mr. Lusey made contact with representatives of the Indepen-
dent Movement on the island of Formosa where he believes
there are perhaps between one and two thousand disciplined
men in this movement. He feels that about two hundred sub-
machine guns with ammunition should be sent out and could
be smuggled into Formosa in water-tight containers. The
Chinese, both in Formosa and on the mainland, are very much
in need of small arms, revolvers, machine guns, sub-machine
guns, etc., and particularly of radio equipment. He be-
lieves that if between fifteen and twenty tons of equipment,
material, etc., could be gotten to them it would make a
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tremendous difference in their entire point view in their
relations with the United States as well as being of in-
estimable help in their resistance to the Japanese.
Mr. Lusey is an extremely interesting person, with most valuable
contacts, and should, I believe, be retained and sent back to
China by the OSS. He is anxious to return to China but not unless
he can produce substantially the above-mentioned equipment, etc.
I turned Mr. Lusey over to Major Lowman, with whom he discussed
communications necessities. Major Lowman, in turn, turned him
over to Ir. Horn
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VI." H. V.
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