DISEASE AMONG CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS, SINKIANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500350004-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/12/12 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000500350004-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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UCUNITY , INFOSMAnON
COUNTRY China,
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20 March 1953
1. According to statistics compiled by the Sinkiang Military ~istriot Command.,
and 22
M Chi a Communist 1 and 22
a Communist 3
.
in mid-October 19152 about 291000 troops of t e &&
Army froupe1, 1 F'ie14 Army, had contracted diseases prevalent in Sinkiang,
'including malaria, v nereal diseases, and ringworm. The rate of incidence
increased after August 1952 because-o' the lack of proper medical treatment,
and forces in southern Sinkiang were suffering more than those in other areas.
When the Health Department of the Central Supply and Service Command of the
Revolutionary Military Council received these statistics, doctors. and medicine
were sent to the area by the Department and by the Chinese Communist Ministry
of Health. The health departments of the Supply and Service Command, North-
west Military jkrea,and of the Northwest China Military and Administrative
Committee were to use these resources to treat affected trrgps and to organise
loots ::die~ia'se prevention dnd medical service units `fin the Sinkiang Military
District
25X1A'
25X1A ~o nt. from another source, in the spring
Disease among Chinese COMMUnist
Troops ? Sinkiang
labor forep engaged. in a llective farming. The 22 Army Group is not ac-
cepted as a. field fore. unit in current compilations of , Chinese Co munist
order -ofl ttlo information
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25X1 A 2, Comment. The North China N,ewe Agency reported on 25 January
s; Chinese Co monist medical team had suit returned to Tihua after
an eight-month tour of itak ah Aocoraing to the broadcast, this team
gave inoculations and physical a