ARREST OF WHITE RUSSIANS/ASPECTS OF SOVIET CITIZENSHIP FOR RUSSIANS IN MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050177-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 177
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CORFIDI pIAL _
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China (Manchuria)
SUBJECT Arrest of phite Russians/Aspects of Soviet
Citizenship for Russians in Manchuria
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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Russians returned to the am at that time.
S'h'y were very dissatisfied once they settled in t ~ and tl.s
fcrsed a dissatisfied ele^eat in that country. Therefore, in L945-o6,
the Soviet authorities, not wishing to acquire an additional elegant
Chinese Restem Rail.. ~... ~..+ ? . " . .... ?~.v7.es or Lee
d w... t-.040.0& by tow tam wtlari-
ties end several ta
' P830208100 to
retina to the Imo. Zt was not p'
in .bent ]ono .L s._ -- .- Grinted. -'!`he raas0a for this wan that
p were ap wed. 'rho majority of the Russians in Manchuria,
in addition to taking out Soviet citimenshi
t
y
Approval XTXM bseow
u..14 cams through in about six aonthe. Not Si]. requests for Soviet
citizenshi
ri
1p sealant.
2. The Russians in a~nchuria fto requested Soviet citizenship received
their Soviet papers by late 19k! or earl
Zak
is to Chits or to Nikelsk-fhenrisk oro.hiloj b.zs T" ~'
, 'w they were sentenced
to varicrus tees of
3
or arrest;
e. Otuden. Exad'* `,wo Ruseinn mils a_ a sdemie
'9 s lccated at
Loshago and lhaniaekhedze (oTar 500 young Russians were thus
arrested);
!. ' -e b
-- o? the aarbin poisce force;
c. employee of the Jhpaneee Military Mission in Harbin;
d. employee of the Bureau of Russian Rsigris; and
e. former number of the Ohite Army (yarticularly fornsr officers).
Tilers were also soft arrested who did
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1? m%ats1ly40ttho Army andentered
in 1945. At *z tithme
RussiansbverenlivingAugust
number
ab
out 10 thousand were either Soviet or Chinese citizens; most of these
were
botheemployed by the
did not
the Russians, but n the NKVD, Changchun vhicha cam in after the sa mArmy -, did.
The RACY checked on the Russians in Manchuria and arrested a out 8
8
There were five "grounds" f about thousand.
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