CHINESE COMMUNIST MEETING ON FINANCES AND SECURITY KWANGTUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000310004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
Chinese Communist Meeting on Finances
and Security, Kwangtung
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.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 30 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. A meeting on Chinese Communist party, military, and political affairs in,
Kwangtung was held from 1-4 August 1953 at Shameen, Canton. It was attended
by representatives of the central government, including LI Wei.han, CHANG
Tsung-hsun, and LIU Chien-kang (4.91/0256/0474), and by 536 Kwangtung hsien
and city representatives. Presiding at the meeting were,T'AO Chu(7118/6999)
HUANG Yung -sheng (7806/3057/0524), LI Tso-p'eng (2621/0155/7720), and FANG
Chiang (2455/1730)?
2. Among 28 resolutions passed at this meeting were the following:
a. Resolution Number 7 stipulated that, beginning in August 1953, one fourth
of the employees in hsien, ch'u, and hsiang governmental organizations
and one third of the employees of trading companies and related organizations
would be dismissed from their jobs.
b. Resolution Number 9 stipulated that beginning in August a 2 percent tax
on provisions could be collected by hsien governments in order to maintain
their own expenses and those of organizations under their jurisdictions,
including banks and tax bureaus. However, under no circumstances would the
hsien governments be allowed to retain other tax funds for their own use.
c. Resolution Number 21 provided that, after September, a militia unit head-
quarters would be set up in each hsien and city, and that companies and
battalions of militia forces would be organized in each ch'u.
d. Resolution Number 8 provided that all military control commissions and
joint defense committees had to be dissolved; dossiers of the military
control commissions had to be turned over to the Central Government; and
prisoners had to be handed over to the courts and public security bureaus
for final trial.
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Comments the above
information; it is possible was taken from a Chinese Communist 25X1
directive circulated to local government units in Kwangtung or from local news-
paper reports.
Comment:o~ in May 1953, TAO
Chu was fourth secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau. As of January 1953,
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TAO was also a, member of the Central
Comment. Possibly self-protection committees are meant.
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