RECRUITMENT OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300440002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/04/12 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300440002-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
ttonal Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 791 and 79{, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its trltinsmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 19 prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SKURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Recruitment of Chinese Communist
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DATE OF INFO.
25X PUCE ACQUIRED
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Party Members
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
25 Febru.rr'1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
.1. WANG Ts'ung-wu (3769/1783/0710), head of the organization Department of
the North China Bureau, said in a report to the Peiping municipal party
committee that about 105,000 new Chinese Communist Party members were
recruited from July to October 1952.' Their recruitment came during a
period of consolidation which called for an increase in party membership
and a purger of undesirables.
2. Seventy percent of the new members were from workers' families; twenty
percent of this group had been raised to party membership from the Youth
Corps The breakdown by area was as follows:
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Comment. For a report on Chinese Communist Party membership
Area
New Members
North China
23)R40:
Northeast China
13,1].0
East China
31, 000
Central and
South China
26,300
Northwest China
5,100
Southwest China
7,000
WANG estimated an additional.55,OQO members would be recruited by the
end of the year. He said the new recruits would strengthen' the,, basic party
organizations and assure completion of the state economic reconstruction
program during 1953.