(Sanitized) INDICATIONS JOURNAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100100067-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: April 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 A-or' 1 1955
1. .Indo_ hina - MIlitar ' .d; Logistic
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to a Viet >inh radio broadcast, the Pat:et Lao in a statement of 6 3-arch strong
protested the infiltration of _, runts into Laos under US instruction.
It was further stated that the total number of such troops in the region
the Viet a;in'm are concerned over
the infiltration of northwest Laos by Ch nese Nationalist forces in the area
of NNuon Sing (21? 101, 101? 15t The Viet minh estimate that some 2,000
Nationalists have infilt -=ted this region :A nee early I:rch and that these
forces plan to attack the Pathet Lao at Baum I'ay (nealr l?uong Sing). According
amounted to about 3,000.
the current estimate of Pathet Lao strength is about 5,C "C
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The raresent of these K' T forces may be used by the Viet P :inh as the
pretext for overt move into Laotian territory
It is known that the Viet T `inh are
actively supporting the Pa e o m ary organization with the apparent
aim of ensuring Communist domination of the two northern prov'.nces of
Phong Saly and Sam Neus. in ire.
(See item no. 3, 29 ) arch 55)
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2. nda- Ch ilitary
Info Date - Deceiber l9
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Reports of developments in the Viet M,Miuh underground south of
the 17th Parallel (See n,,* 2, 28 Nar 55) are sup: orted by further reports
now coming avl4iable.
the Viet Minh
recruits and poorly trained guerrillas i"or rerruLar 'troops in un
uated from the South under the ter :.g of the Geneva cease-fl
leaving excerieneed cadres behind.
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1 April 1955 (p. 2)
General - Medical
0 Date - 1953 -1955)
I I Chinn
request for im: ediate delivery of 171#000 pairs of surgical gloves of a total
of 593,000 pairs scheduled for delivery from Czechoslovakia in 1955 The
1955 total represents a major increase over the 1954 totall order from
Czechoslovakia of 320,000 pairs, of which only 2E30,000 were apparently
delivered. (A 40,000 carryover is known to be included in the scheduled
1955 figure of 593,000,) It is likely that China imports surgical gloves
frog sources other than Czechoslovakia, but no information on deliveries
from other sources is immediately available.
The number of surgical gloves mentioned is far in excess of
normal demands from. China's 30,000 (est.) licensed physicians. Although
medical sbhoolsa have expanded rapidly, only 11,000 d.ctors and 52,000
medical ass istazibe were trained during 1950-54. At pre->ent Chinaes i edica1
schools have an enrollment of 30,000 students.
'.4hile;he stepped-up delivery schedule of these items for 1955
may have military significance, it may also merely reflect a growling effort
to instill modern sanitation practices and equipment among public health
workers, whose numbers have been estimated as high as 600,0000 individuals.
This group includes t;-:idwives, nurses, re-trained herb doctors and other
relatively unskilled iaedical workers who have been press-led intc sere:ce
because of the acute shortage of fully trained medical doctors.
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