FORMER SINKIANG OFFICIAL ASSERTS SOVIETS MINE URANIUM, GOLD, TRAIN TROOPS IN SINKIANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360833-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 833
• Publication Date: December 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
GUNFIUtN I IAL
COUNTRY China
Military - Troop training
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
PUBLISHED Haiphong
DATE
PUBLISHED 27 Oct 1950
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL D[F[MS[
Of THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
Y. S. C., 31 AND SS. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION ON THE REVELATION
Ol ITS CONTENTS IN ANT BANNER TO AN UNAUTHONIE[O PERSON IS PRO-
HIBITED ST LAW. ^EFNDDUCTIOM Of THIS FORM 13 PAOHISIT[D.
T'ai-p'ing-yang Wan-pao.
CD NO.
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
FORMER SINKIANG OFFICIAL ASSERTS SOVIETS
MINE URANIUM, GOLD, TRAIN TROOPS IN SINKIANG
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Cairo (UP) -- For the past 6 months, Soviet Communist Party members have been
mining uranium and training the "People's Army" in far-off Sinkiang Province. Sin-
kiang could become the base for Soviet occupation of Tibet, India, and Afghanistan.
According to estimates of April 1950, Soviets in this strategically important prov-
ince now number 400,000. This information was disclosed by I-ssu-mei-erh, a Turkes-
tan Moslem leader who gave as its source a letter sent to him in March by I-sai-pei,
an escaped former official of the Sinkiang provincial government.
This Moslem leader is the same person who reported in June 1949 that the Soviets
were.gonducting an extensive movement to reform Moslems in the Soviet Middle East.
I-ssu