RADAR INSTALLATIONS, CANTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100720003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA004100720003-4
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 it prohibited.
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COUNTRY China
SUB,tCT
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DATE OF INFO."
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR. 10 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE,
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. On 25 and. 26 April 1954, two radar installations similar to the SCR-270-DA type1
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About 52 yards eaf>1^k of the second installation were eight medium-sized anti-
aircraft gull and four anti-aircraft' machine guns which were guarded by 40 armed
.soldiers.
200 yards south of the Hsiaokang Road in A Wooded area on a rise ten feet high.
.There were ten rie_rby barracks which could }douse several thousand men (sic).
The second radar installation was about_,a.1f a kilometer east of the first and
were observed on Hsiaokang 11420/3263) Road at Chungshan (formerly Lin?Lan) Uni-
versity in the village of''K'anglo (1660/2867) on Honan island, Canton.
One installatiop was at the Hsiaokang School gate directly opposite a mound of
earth 40 feet,~igh about 600 yards south of the public road. A small grey house,
next to the inBta],lati9n was occupied by ten soldiers.
During three hours of observation on two consecutive days the radar antennae
turned continuously even during rain.
Radar Installations, Canton
Comments
2. reported four
ra r&anennae east o the tis aoc ang- ngnan university Road in August 195
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