WEEKLY INDICATIONS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100100002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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&== 7 1956
reported by a/TLt? reveal an unusual intc n-
t, uctiou in China. It is felt
gic implications for the
aS a si nj,fjcaut
a. On 29 December Peiping a :pounced coaapleti
on of the Five
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Plan goals for the building and rebtoration of highways. The aced..
plis nt of these gets two years ahead of schedule indicates either
4 es error in Planning- or a special priority I.eing attached to the
fulf ,: ment of the program. .s concerns the latter, there is no rim
basis in Awda able izat . ;ence which wo-u I suggest why particular
importance would be attached to this road building t , espeo;s ally
in are" as remote as Tibet. The major part of the road building pro..
o has been concentrated on border are". i.e., in West Chip. youth
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a the Co x i t position of force iu thos erase 't tt as concerns
the lacl population as well as bordering nata
b. On 22 Dec r the ' ter of
schedu to begin on V >e construction of the l eik:
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and on the wsech a ci rw line. both Of whiC ere - 4 " a
80Mduled for the second Five-roar Plan. This brings to three he
total number of raid, lines started under the First F'ive+?Year plan,
which were ori,,Inally scheduled for the second Five Year Plan. The
third line which has been staffed more than two years, ahead of schedule
is the Paotou,/Lazach w line* The completion of those three projects
wLU provide a through north-south trunk line extend. from the Trazc-
Siberian south through Pa tou , i emu} Chu , and Kona , to
I si rag and the d elop= ; port of an chouwan in Truth Cth.
ORR/D/S
: /Lt505 (3 January 1956)
Approved For Release 2006/11111: CIA-RDP61S00527A000100100002-3