CHINESE COMMUNIST MILITARY TRAINING SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600870001-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SICURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
China
Chinese Communist Military
Training Schd Ole and Programs
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
amen4ed. Its transmission or revelation of its oontenta
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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1. In June 1953, 417 persons graduated from the final term of the 24 Infantry
School, an elementary infantry school in'Kueilin (N 25-20, E 110-10).1
On 1 August the school was to begin a four-month training program for the
first of four groups of cadres of the Kwangsi Military District. This program
was to emphasize basic military'te.chniques and, for commanding officers at
platoon and company levels, political instruction.
2. In early June the Central an4 South China Military Area Command. ordered the
Kwangsi Military District Headquarters to select a group of cadres of above
battalion level to be sent to the USSR to study artillery techniques .2 The
following five cadres who qualified for this program left from Nanning (N 2248,
E 108-18) on 8 June to assemble in Wuhan:
a. KAO Li-pen (7559/4539/2609). commander of an artillery battalion of the
Kwangsi Military District.
b. R O Shu-jen (7202/2885/0086), a battalion-level staff officer of the
Third Department, Kwangsi Military District.
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c. CH'EN P'u (3088/2883), chief of staff of the Officers Section, Kwangsi
Military District Headquarters.
d. TAN Shan (0830/1472), deputy commander of the Garrison Regiment of the
Kwangsi Military District.
e. WU Chien-yueh (0124/1696/1471), battalion commander at the cadres school
of the Kwangsi Military District.
Before the five cadres left Nanning, thS commander of the Kwangsi Military
District, LI T'ien-yu (2621/1131/0147), told them the following:
a. The present plan of sending cadres to the USSR for training complied
with orders (sic) from the USSR and is based on a "unified transfer plan."
b. The sending of cadres to the USSR for training was only a part of this
"unified transfer plan" The military cadres' unified transfer plan, as
formulated by the central authorities, included transfer of all cadres
for training, collective transfers, changes of vocation, study abroad, and
production projects in native villages.
c. The Revolutionary Military Council controlled the implementation of the
transfer plan.
The cadres were selected and sent by the Kwangsi Military District to
the USSR for artillery training in order to improve tie techniques of
commanding officers in troop units.
In July the Revolutionary Military Coune4 was planning to establish a cavalry
school at Vienshui (N 34-36, E 105-28), which was to be opened in 1954. On
13 June seven leading officers of the Military Training Department of the
Revolutionary Military Council arrived in Lanchou (N 36-03, E 103-41) by air
where they conferred with officials of the Northwest China Military Area
regarding the establishment of the schoolb After they inspected the T'ienshui
area the officers returned to Peiping by air on 20 June.
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