SERVICES DIVISION INDICATIONS JOURNAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100100035-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 35
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Releas;'_~4
1 .ham 1955
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ability for operational sup3: t of the new airfields present~y
Twents in East China indicate that the Chinese Gomunists have
the airfi' e: being constructed is itsel
logistic capability in the area. cover, there is evidence that both the
v aterborne and road transport capabilities of the Chirp:
tinuing to increase,
The rapid rate of construction of these fields, each of mbich is favorably
located for terbor supply, has been ride possible to a considerable extant
by )age-scale a loyne of small boat traf is (observed in aerial photo:, raphy)
in the movement of eon t cti z ale, River and coastal craft now moving
construction materials could also provide logistic support en the fields are
operational. atow is already regularly served eoastE a ? ro i at r runs
from Canton and regular Chinese coastal freighter operations have recently been
initiated from Shanghai to 'en-how, ctaich in turn a be used as a staging area
for transshipping supplies further south smaller craft. There has been in-
creasing evidence of small craft mmozents bet en Sa o and , n Bequ and
the Min estuary. The fzegaaengy of these mcrve nits indicates that a conelherable
tonnage ` presently be moving into the Foochow area by sea. Tdht navigation
along the ceiling Peninsula and into the '1n estua' " as x enUy noted, and it
is possible that the Chinese C --ants are sing nterial a not only into the
Foochow area,, but also into the Lung Tien and even the Shati, airfields under
saver of darkest,
d impravemnt efforts have been concentrated
congested area IW-passess, and on local access roads, ser
rotallatio or areas. Of particular significance is the recentl
road from Foochow to Wins, ich is currently being Wired across the
at Ioyca (new bridip being constructed) to a beaching area on the north shore
of LoVuan BW north across the peninsula to a beaachiz site on the sow
shore of Santueaa. Berth Saco and IWwn Dqrs are considered likely staging
areas both f biotin operations and for awp ,y enants into the Foochow
area, by ei*U boat4 and by tucks.
4ren assuming that the Chinese Cr :its would require a 30-daY
ils on each airfield becoming rational,, it is believed vall,
their txe rt Capabilities to provide suc*h stockpiles during the final stages
of construction or thin a very short tin thereafter, l: reover, as Dhntai
arxi $a o boon, c ratio 1, the availability of air cover win maim it easier
for t h e Chirese Communists to supply these fields and the other airfie't rages
ur r construction. The ear3y oo letion of ntai and Matc ? W-idh together
".ti a sting fields will provide air cover for the entire ChUiess coast bet en
Canton and Shanghai# m ll reflect a deliberate pattern based in part on these
logistic considerations. It is believed, therefore,, that each of the coastal
airfields oould be made "rational ;almost is adiate2y after co i,etion of
construction.
Approved For Release 2006/11/11 : CIA-RDP61S00527AO00100100035-7