GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060031-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: February 25, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. British release aircraft to Chinese Communists -US
Consul General Rankin in Hong Kong reports that the
British court in Hong Kong has lifted the injunction
involving the assets of two Chinese airlines and that
only registration formalities remain to be accomplished
before the Communists fly the aircraft away. Rankin
believes that the actions of Hong Kong executive and
judicial authorities can be explained only if they have
been in possession of highly secret instructions from
London to see that the Communists obtain the aircraft
under any circumstances. Rankin points out that this
action demonstrates a fundamental divergence between
the US and British attitudes toward Communist China.
State Dept. review completed
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