QUEMOY, THE MATSUS; T[ ]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600340005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: NSPR

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defense of Formcra Quemoy is. at out 110
mile?es from ForrnOsa and the Matsus are
about the same distance from the port of
Keelung in northern Formosa.
The mainland coast opposite Formosa
from We.nrlaow to the north to Savatow to
the south i, extremely rugged, with thou-
sands of small islands and hundreds of
bays and small. Creams. Amoy and Foo-
ov are just two snail ports in this
Coastline.
It is easily possible to assemble the
thousands of junks that would be needed
for an invasion of Formosa and the Pes-
cadores whtle bypassing Amoy and
Foochow.
Indeed, the fact that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-srhek has placed 60,000 to 70,000
of his best troops on Quemoy and 15,000
to 20,000 on the Matsus weakens the de-
fense of Formosa substantially & .id provides
an invitation to bypass the is':cnds.
Ile truth is that Formosa is in no danger
Or invasion until far in the future when
the Red Chinese haw, a substantial naval
force, landing ships and air support. The
Movement of hundreds of thousands of
men across 100 miles of water to land on
a defended coast is an operation of the
scope of the initial landings by the United
States on the Normandy ccsast of France.
So lr at the United States Seventh
Fleet is in readiness to move into the
Formosa, ser;its and the Paciirc Air Forcc
is ready tr, operate there, no invasion of
Formosa, is possible, regardless of the fare
of the trffshr,tr island",
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