ORGANIZATION OF SPECIAL MILITARY UNITS, KWANGSI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600200006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Organization of Special Military
Units, Kwangsi
25XdATE OF INFO.
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.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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25X1 1.I (officials of the Western Kwangsi Special Region
Garrison Command were as follows:
a. T'AN Ying chi (6009/2019/2894)-? commander.
b. WEI Po-ch'uan (7279/0130/0356): deputy commander.
c, HSIEH Ho-shou (6200/7729/1108): political commissar.
d. PI Hsing-yu (3968/6821/1946): deputy political commissar.
e. CHAN Chun (2069/5028): chief of staff.
f. CH'EN Chi-i (7115/1015/5030): chief of the Political Department.
K'ANG Lieh (1660/3525): commander of the Paise (N 23-55, E 106-34)
Sub-Region.
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h. C}P U Chi-wen (0575/3444/2429): commander of the P'inghsiang
(N 22-06, E 106-44) Sub-Region.
2. The principal tasks of the Western Kwangsi Special Region Garrison
Command were as follows:
a. To replace the Kwangsi Military District troop units on the
Kwangsi.-Indochina border.
b. To asslm.t the Western Kwangsi Tung Nationality Autonomous
Region expand its local forces.
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c. To subdue the anti-Communist armed forces in the Shihwantashan
(N 22- , E 108- ) area and in the Kwangsi-Kweichou-Yunnan
border area.
3. the Kwangsi Military District formed the 1 and 2 Forestry
Engineers ivisions3 of the Central and South China Military Area with
15,000 men transferred from Kwangsi Military District troop units, the 45
A ,,4 and the 53 Army. The organization of each of the forestry engineers
divisions was similar to that of a regular infantry division.
4. In mid-March the two forestry engineers divisions were prepared to move to
the Leichou (N 20- , E 1100 ) Penninsula for productive work assigned by
the Central and South China Military Area.
25X1 5. the Kwangsi Military District had organized ten regiments,
noun as the Provisionally Grouped Regiments of the Kwangsi Military
District, in response to a program authorized by the Central and South
China Military Area Command to transfer organized militia of the military
sub-districts into field army reserve units.5 These ten regiments, which
were based at Nanning (N 2248, E 108-18) and Liuchou, were being trained
for three months by the Grouping and Training Command (sic) of the Kwangsi
Military District. On completion of the training, the regiments were to
be organized into reserve divisions of the Central and South China Military
Area,
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rive vir ons of field army reserve units. These divisions differed from
military district troop units, such as basic cadres regiments and garrison
regiments, in that the divisions were assigned to the particular area for
training purposes rather than for local garrison activities.
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3. bamment.
reports on the reorganization of Chinese Communist Army elements into
production units.
4.
two mliltla vis ons, temporarily esigna a as the
and 2 Reserve Divisions, had been organized from troops of seven
regiments of the Kwangsi Military District.
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