TROOP MOVEMENTS IN NANKING AND SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300630009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL..: GENCE 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
SUBJECT
China
Troop: Movements in Nanking and
DATE DISTR.
i$ June 1954
Shanghai.
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DATE OF INFO.
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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a
large?ntamber 'of well-dresseChinese-Communist army troops appeared in
Nanking and$hanghai. They attracted much attention. because they were
better dressed than any troops seen there before. They wore woolen
uniforms, military dress hats, Sam Browne belts and brown boots. The
trousers of,. eir uniforms were Persian blue and their SUN Yat-sen-
style jackets,, khaki-colored., They wore badges over their left breast
pockets with to characters Huai Hai (3232/3189) and Tuchiang (3256/
3068) on them.
a military train of 32 cars arrived
in hanc hai from Nanking. X0 the cars were loaded with Chinese
Communist army troops. The rest were loaded with from 17 to 20 horses
each. Two soldiers guarded each car.
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1. IIIIIIIIIIII[Comment. Judging from their uniforms', these troops were
proba "lay Chinese Communist air force personnel. Since air units
have been stationed in the Shanghai and Nanking areas for some time,
no reason is apparent for the stir these troops reportedly caused.
Possibly~'a'neiw issue of smarter uniforms was made in January
2. CQmpient. These were probably commemorative badges for the
Huaiyin-Huaichou campaign and the Yangtze River crossing.
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