CHINESE NATIONALIST AND BURMESE FORCES IN THE KENGTUNG AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300630002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 18, 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 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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COUNTRY Burma/Thailand/China
SUBJECT Chinese Nationalist and Burmese
Forces in the Kengtung Area
25X1 C
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR. 1$ June 195+
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Chinese Nationalist troops are now out of the Mong Heat, Mong Hang
(N 20-03, E 98-57) and Mong Ton (N 20-16) E 98-51.) valleys. They have
taken up positions in the jungles around these areas, since they do not
want to expose themselves to Burmese bombings while flying conditions are
still good. On 27 April 1951k six Burmese planes bombed and machine-gunned
the Doi ridge, between Mong Fang and the Burma border. The bombing and
strafing occurred about three miles south of the Chinese Nationalist positions.
2. Lahu refugees estimate that there are about 5,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers
in the jungles around Mong Heat, about a half-day's journey from the Salween
River ferry at Ta Kea La (N 20-27, E 98-40)? Chinese Nationalist forces from
the southl and from other parts of Kengtung State are coming into this area.
A Lahu chief states he was told by a Chinese Nationalist officer that the
Chinese Nationalists plan, when the rains begin2 and troop movements are dif-
ficult, to seize the Ta Hsa La Ferry and stop reinforcements for the Burmese
troops at Mong Heat. After the Ferry has been seized, the Chinese Nationalist
main force will encircle Mong Heat and wipe out the troops stationed there.
3. There are approximately 500 Burmese troops in the Mong Heat valley. They are
mostly Chins with some Kachins and Burmese.
4. The Burmese troops are forcing every able-bodied male in the area to work on
the Mong Heat airstrip which is undergoing full scale repair work. The men are
engaged in carrying supplies from the Salween ferry to Mong Heat and in build-
ing barracks as well as repairing the field. Only women are allowed to work on
the farms. All Chinese Nationalist buildings at the field were burned during
March 1954.
5. Several thousand Chinese women and children who are families of Chinese National-
ist troops have fled into the jungles of Doi Ang Ka (N 18-35, E 98r28). Burmese
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troops have followed these refugees into Thki territory on two different
occasions. The Chinese Nationalist troops have put up road blocks on the
trails Ied,ding to Doi Ang Ka. The Burmese have made no further attempts to
follow the refugees.
Suh Ta Shaw Ye, brother of Sub Ping Ling,3 is in the Mong Pawk (N 22-00,
E 99-19)-area near the Yunnan border. He plans to take 1,000 of his men and
Join the Chinese Communists in Lantsang District.
Comments
1. Probably from the Karen National Defense Organization (KDTDO) areas.
2. Approximately mid-J'une.
3. !omment. According to a report dated November 1953, Suh Ping Ling,
a Yunnanese leader, was one of the strongest opponents of the Chinese Com-
munists in Lantsang. He fled from Nu Nai when it was burned in 1948. He
was arrested by the Burmese but later escaped and joined the Chinese
Nationalist forces in Burma. A report dated February 1954 stated that Suh
Ping Ling, who went to Taiwan in November 1953, had returned to Mong Pawk
and was the commander of 2,000 Chinese Nationalist troops.
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