(SANITIZED)1. NEW CITY IN SINKIANG(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400480009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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ENTRAL' INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 794. of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its content's
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form I. prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT 1, New City in Sinkiang
2.
REPORTI
DATE DISTR. 3 2aroh 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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N Citin, SinkiAng Province. I. iz the fs,11 of 962 the Chinese Corarnunixts'were in the process: of build-
i& a now city about 18 'kilometers from Suilai(N 44-21, 3 86-19) with
th,,i .14 of Chinese Co unist km y personnel. The city,, which was expect-
trr hawse ti pop0,atiun of 2000000 within five years, was to have a
4aG~ti;oor,o pliant, a sugar refinery, and a flour mill. A tractor fao
:wry was bolxi planned for opeiaing ' in 1963. In late October the People's
Bank, had a staff of four, in a branch office in the new oity.1
Comment s .
1. This would appear to be a reference to the alleged "atom city" which
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was reported in early December as under construotion in 25X1
a desert area in Sinkiang, near the Manas River, and whioh was to be
named Shihhotzu (4258/3109/1311).
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