1. TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, WESTERN TIBET 2. ROAD CONSTRUCTION, TIBET 3. HEADQUARTERS OF K. I. SINGH

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• Publication Date: December 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.B. 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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REPORT NO. 25X1A
SUBJECT 1. Travel. Restrictions, Western Tibet DATE DISTR. 24 Decerrher '41953
2. Road Construction, Tibet
3. Headquarters of K. I. Singh. NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE OF INFO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Travel Restrictions
1. In late October 1953 the Chinese authorities were not permitting ordinary
travelers, with, the exception of lamas, to enter the general area between-
Girang Dzong (N 2828, E 85-16) and Mama La (N 31-05, E 79-25), and Tibetans
within this area were finding it difficult to leave for travel to other
parts of Tibet. The only permits allowing one to enter or leave this area
were issuod"by the Chinese Communist authorities, who did not recognize
permits granted by Tibetan officials,
2e The closing of the above area was affecting the wool trade. Wool from the
central southern border regions of Tibet, which formerly went to Kalimpong
and Darjeeling in India,, was being diverted, as a result of theme security
controls, westward toward Chtangtu. (N 3:1.-l0, E 97-07).
Road Construction
4. In addition to the Ihasa-Yatung road, a road between Phari Dzong and
Zhikatse (N 29-15, E 88-53), seat of the Panohen lama, was also under
construction in early November 1953.
5. In early November the survey of the route for a major highway to western
Tibet ha . been completed. This route was to pass through 25 Tasam
stations to Barkha (N 30-52, E 81--19), and thence to Sinkiang Province
In late October the Chinese Communist military authorities, using Tibetan
labor, were building a road from Lhasa south to Yatung (N 27-26, E 88-53).
More than ten thousand Tibetan laborers were employed on this road, which
was to be 20 feet in width. The road was to pass through Gyangtse ( N 28-57,
E 89.48) and Phari Dzong (N 27-45, E 89-10). Between Lhasa and Gyangtse a
concrete bridge was being oonstruoted over the Brahmaputra Rivera
Tib et/India,epa1
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via Gartok (N 31-45, E 80-22), Rudog (N 33-27E 79-42) and Lake Lighten
(N 34-59, E 81-06) to Khotan (N 37-07, E 79-5;3. 2 Sections of the proposed
route between Khotan and Gartok were under construction in November 19:53.3
6. The Chinese Communist military had also completed surveys of proposed feeder
roads from the main. passes into India and Nepal to the major west route
described above-4
Headquarters of 1. 1. Singh
7. In early November 1.953 K. I. Singh was staying in a village near Tradum
(N 29-39, 84-10), where the Chinese Communists had established for him a
headquarters where he could organize and train Nepalese Communists.5
Comments
1. Halts may be intended.
2. This may be the road described in paragraph 3 of
3. that the Sinkiang portion of the Sinkian -Tibet highway,
originating in eriya, was open to traffic in May 1953.
that forced labor was being used on the road from the Kirghiz 5'a to
Khotan and its extension from Khotan to Tibet, in the fall of 1952. In
from a traveler who left Khotan early in 1953, the route from
Khotan to Tibet was mentioned but without any report of work being done
upon it.
that Chinese Communist mili-
tary units were making map surveys along the Tibetan frontier adjoining
both India and Nepal in the summer of 1953.
25X1A 5. that the Chinese Communists
maintain d trainin centers for Nepalese Communists at Taklakhar and
25X1A Tradum. in April 1952 Dr. Kaiser Indra Singh"s
followers in Tibet were being trained by Chinese Communist army officers.
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