(Sanitized)OFFSHORE ISLANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000400020003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 5, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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N`;C BRIEFING, Oct lJ54
I. Although shelling of Quemoys les!
than 100 round.- per day since 2
September, Commune-t artillery report
being relocated ants resupplied and
heavy shelling may be resuweu at any
time,
reports say 'very large'- tank
moving through Foochow toward
Amoy in mid-September.
U.. 1 cn s ible use of Communist air at
. i1emoy- unconf irmeci _
PACOM review(s) completed.
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unconfirmed--Communist troops
concentrating in Amoy area, u4se
of 20 motorized junks in landing
exercises.
and Communist radio have announced
islands will be in Commuun is I hands
by 15 October.
E. As result these developments,
Nationalist Defe-nse Ministry and
M.:~AG observers believe assault
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