LOCAL FEELING TOWARD THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS ON THE CHINA SIDE OF THE BURMA-CHINA BORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800490004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/02/23: CIA-RDP80-0081OA001800490004-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
mum IIUFORMArON
PLACE ACQUIRED
Burma/China
Local Feeling Toward the Chinese DATE DISTR.
Communists on the China Side of the Burma.
China Border NO. OF PAGES
This Do.nment oast ilns iraforcaag?n aReathk the X-
tloaN WON of the united States, within the tam-
ing Of 710. It 80atloas 7?0 and 784, of the e.8. Code, as
amended. Its b6nUMMAM or revelation of Its 0antei9ta
to or receipt by an unanthortead person is PMMI iUd
by law. The r.produotialn of this tam Is pshibited.
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
22 July 1953
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le Farmers and cultivators on the China side of the Burma-China border are much more
Opiuu smoking has been prohibited by the Chinese Communists, but oultitation of the
opium poppy for sale is encouraged,
.. The Kaohins in China were antagonistic toward the ChineseCommunists in the initial
stages of their occupation of Yunnan. The Chinese Communists have now won their
friendship by helping clean their villages, ploughing their fields, carrying water
and firewood, and teaching them to care for their domestic animals,
5. Under the Chinese Nationalist regime, there was no dispensary at Mengmao (N 21-.02,
E 97-52) or in other locations near the Burma border. The Chinese Communists haves
set up. dispensaries in this vicinity and have also established maternity. hospitals,
kindly disposed toward their Chinese Communist governors than previously, This has
resulted, in large measure, from assistance rendered by the Chinese soldiers in the
working of the farms and in the general attitude of humility which they have displayed
toward the people in the area. ` ` .
Before the Chinese Communist occupation, the Sawbwas received one-fifth of the rice
crop yield axiriually. This tribute is no longer exacted, and novr all of the rice crop
is sold directly to the Chinese Communist Government. If the crop fails in any year,
the Chinese Communist Government will supply the farmers with free paddy and no
taxes are charged for that year.
omment. The Chinese Communists have been so successful in their propaganda
campaign that it would now prove very difficult to get the people in these areas to
turn ,against the Chinese Communist Government.
SECRET
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