INSPECTION AND CONTROL OF MERCHANT SEAMEN TIENTSIN AND CANTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003700350001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
• 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 394, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contexts
to or receipt by an unauthorized person.is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 19 prohibited.
CONFIDMIAL/CONTEQL - MS. OFFICIALS, ONLY
. 10"
SUBJECT "Inspection and Control of Meront
Seamen, Tientsin and Canton
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 20 March 1951+
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
were25X1
re aired to register
the amount of foo~c they 3ntenmect opurch- purchase. food, purchases were limited to
six eatties of pork, 10 catties of vine, and 10 eggs per person. Food purchases
exceeding the specified amount were confiscated and returned to the store from which
it came. Crew members moved.freely in Tientsin, although they thought they were under
surveillance by therCunist authorities.. Visits to movies and friends did not
require permission from public security offices.
seamen going ashore from ships. on the regular Canton 25X1
rim were rarely inspected by canton Customs.o ficials. When returning to ships
'from shore, packages that they carried were cursorily examined by customs officials;
body search. was infrequent..
crew members of ships arriving in Tientsin
the only Chinese Communist officials boardig ship 25X1
CONFIiIMIAL/CONTROL U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
E 113-32) heck 6st, the Xwangtung Customs Office, and the Nanshihttou (0589/4258/
7333) ec`post boarded the ships. In Canton, six customs officials and two police
officils ; man and a woman, from the Pearl River Police Station boarded the whips
to Canton were from the Rungpei (N 22-12, E 7..,13..32 , Border Defense Station.
On previous trips, officials from the Kungpei Customs Office, the Chlienshau (N 22-14,
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