SOVIET AND CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL OF WHITE RUSSIANS IN HARBIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000110007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 24, 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
China/USSR
SUBJECT Soviet and Chinese Communist (control of
White Russians in Harbin
REPORTI
DATE DISTR. 24 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In mid-October 1953, Soviet officials in Harbin required all White Russians there
to complete a questionnaire giving name; age; address; family; birthplace;
date of arrival in Harbin; and plans for leaving or remaining in Harbin.
Persons who expressed a desire to leave Harbin were irrevocably dismissed
from their employment and denied other employment.. On approximately 25
October, Soviet officials in Harbin announced that the issuance of exit visas
to White Russians in Harbin had been discontinued-
20 In early November Soviet officials in Harbin were denying exit visas to White
Russians. Efroimski,1. a member of the visa section of the Soviet Citizens
Association in Harbin, denied exit visas to a group of about 10 White Russians.
Exit visas were also denied in early November to a White Russian possessing a
ntry permit and an elderly White Russian who had initial clearance
at Han Dao Redz i (sic )2, a railroad town near Harbin
Prior to early November, the Soviet Union transferred complete jurisdiction
over all the approximately 16,000 White Russians living in the Harbin area to
the Chinese Communists. The Soviet Union instructed the Chinese Communists
to consider the management of the White Russian community in Harbin as an
exercise in the practical application of Soviet control methods.
The Chinese Communists and Soviets were sealing off the White Russian community
in Harbin for probable use as a bargaining element in high level diplomatic
negotiations
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This is probably the L.B. Effroimski who was re orted
as a local citizen of Harbin and manager of the Press Section
of the Soviet Citizens' Association.
2e Possibly Heng tao-ho'tzu (N 44-49, E 129-04) is meant
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