MEETING OF THE WORLD PEACE CONGRESS IN LETPADAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000130009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CE-NTRA_L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document c ontatns Information affectins th. its
tional Defense of the Vni"d $tstes, within the p ean-
ing of Title 18, sections 700 and 704, of the U.8. C440, 84
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an uniuthorlaod person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY B
SUBJECT Meeting of the World Peace Congress
in Letpadan
DATE. OF INFO.
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I August 1953
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1,. On 26 February 1953 a World Peace Congress meeting was convened in Letpadan
(N 17-47, E 95-45)." The meeting was still in progress the next day. Its main
purpose appeared to be to urge the Government of Burma to drive all Chinese
Nationalist troops out of Burma.
2. Posters glorifying Red China and the Soviet Union were on display, but no
Burmese national flags were flown. Several light blue flage?with a picture
of pige9ns in the center were observed.
25X1A Comment. eacribed is some detail the activities of the.
25X1A Burma Workers and Peasants Party (BWPP) and its front organization, the World
Peace Congress (Burma) during the period 1 October - 31 December 1952.
1. Iomment. Letpadan is an urban district, a majority of whose rep-
resentatives belong to the BWPP. It. is considered to be a Communist
stronghold.
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