NOTES ON THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN EAST BERLIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany/China
SUBJECT Notes on the Chinese Embassy in East
Berlin
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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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NO. OF PAGES
18 May 1954
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The follQwi'ng members of the Chinese Embassy in East Berlin reside in the
Embassy building at Treskow Allee:50 in Karlshorst:
Dry WANG Yu Tie,,, First,Cot sel,or of the Embassy (Erster Botschaftsrat).
together with his wife
b5 HBtU Wit I Second Secretary of the Embassy, also with his wife.
c. AAA Linoj' he Chief of ?rsonnel for the Embassy,, also with his wife..
&, REi3 Ni $en (pronounced Ren Ni Tien) ) male Chinese head of the registry
a d co>z zni.cations facilities; he is single.
ea,- Four uziidentified Chinese communications personnel, all male and single.
KW7O Mao Kung, Attache at the Embassy, lives at Dorothea Strasse Ii.. The ress
attach4 is HO Chiang.. His wife also works at the Embassy. Both HO Cbian% and
his wife speak good. German.
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In j6eneral, the Chinese use Only Chinese nationals as interpreters. such
interpreters are far more fluent in Russian than they are in. German,. For the
goat joart, when. fluent German is required the Chinese officials use ttr German-born
d cuuhic l~~erprezera wno are uninese citizens by virtue of maxri: ge. ,TE
tho female interpreters are:
.e,! ,- USCH Yu An
b,
';Zerth .
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