INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000300030015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

App%i Xff s 0015-9
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT -NO. 1LEGIB
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY COMMUNIST CHINA.
SUBJECT INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
25X1A
DATE OF Sept. 8 - 14, 1952
INFORMATION
DATE DIST. '7 () C,T / 94
PER REGI~;`I.,~
ULLETiN NO. OF PAGES
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES W11HIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C.. SI AND 82.AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON is PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
SOURCE Monitored Broadcasts
STATE
NAW
RI
Y INFO
NSRB DISTRIBUTION
R
ATION :.:
ARMY
AIR
FB 1
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CPW Report No. 39 -- COMMUNIST CHINA
(Sept. 8-14, 1952)
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL SECU
T
0
ILLEGIB
Approved For Release 2002/06/28 CIA-RDP78-04864A000300030015-9
 Approved For Release 2002/06/28 : CIA-RDP78-04864A000300030015-9
SUMMMtY
0
Despite repeated illustrations of Russian leadership, pressure is necessary to get
Chinese-Changchun Railway workers to accept Soviet techniques. Encouragement for
those doubting Soviet superiority in building and operating railroads comes from
admission that "poor construction" forced the closing of part of the new Chengtu-
Chungking Railway.
Extravagant claims of Chinese victories and American defeats still are interlaced
with charges of American perfidy at Koje, and at Panmunjon, which is used as a "passage-
way for special agents." Nothing is said of Panmunjon's use by Communist soldiers as
a passageway to freedom. Government action in taking over the Southwest silk
industry might reflect Russian needs for cheap Chinese silk in her war industries,
but the ability of accountants to find. additional capital after courses to "reform
their thinking" is not so easy to explain.
The first in a series of long speeches by East China officials reveal moves to expand
Party controls, but also concern at lack of peasant enthusiasm for the dictatorship
of the proletariat. After all, before the Sino-Soviet partnership, Mao's Communist
drive was based on the peasantry. Further peasant dissatisfaction is apparent in
refusal to report bumper crops, and need of production inspectors for protection
against "reactionaries and lawless landlords."
Usual r(.:ports of farming achievements by People's Liberation Army uri..ts in the border
areas are expanded to include successes in the Northeast. It is difficult to see why
PL1 units would be engaged in agriculture in this highly developed area except as
guards for slaw labor units. Similarities of the judicial reform movement to the
anticorruption drives against businessmen are evident from reports of public accusation
meetings, and replacement of conservative judicial personnel with more amenable workers
and shop clerks.
Attendance at a public trial of only 2,000 persons seems surprisingly small, while
sale by one store of 24,500 copies of Mao's book, but four million other volumes,
indicates little enthusiasm for the Communist Sino-Soviet partnership.
Approved For Release 2002/06/28 : CIA-RDP78-04864A000300030015-9