CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT, KANSU-SZECHUAN BORDER AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600510010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 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 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Troops and Jail.
Kansu-Szechuan Border Area
REPORT
pment, DATE DISTR. 23 October 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Amuchoho (approximately N 34-57, E 102-2#). These troops were equipped
with pack-howitzers and mortars. They were staging maneuvers with live
ammunition and were being trained in riding techniques. They were trans-
porting food supplies from Linhsia (N 35-36, E 10303.) to the various villages
where they were stationed along the Amuchoho and at Hsit'sanghsinssu (approx-
imately N 33-52, E 102-40).1 There was an average of ten truckloads of food
supplies transported daily.
600 cavalry, were stationed in various villages'along the banks of the
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there were 500 Chinese Communist infantrymen at Shuangch'a
approximately N 3441, E 102-37) with a food.supply estimated at over
100,000 catties
There were over 2,000 Chinese Communist infantrymen under the command of 50X1-HUM
HSU Kuo-chen (1776/0948/3791)2'stationed about 30 li, southwest of Hsiaho
(N W-25, E 102-23).' They were living in recently constructed hnus el
approximately 300 Chinese Communist cavalrymen-and 500
Chinese Comunist infantrymen occupied Langmussu (approximately N 34-02,
E 102-17).3
Comment, It is rumored that the Communist troops will launch
an attack against the guerrilla forces after the Lunar New Year.
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approximately 1,000 Communist troops, including
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member of--the Kansu uovernme uouncii an
of the Kansu Military District.
*ilitary..?district commander
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HSU was a
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I HSU had apparently become
3. Comment. These troops possibly moved in from Hsits'anghsinssu 50X1-HUM
and a Amue o area.
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