PORT INFORMATION TIENTSIN AND SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400500009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
CONFIDENTIAL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY China
Port Information, Tientsin
and Shanghai
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
26 November 1954
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
nave craft of less than 1,000 tons were observed at Taku Bar, sailing in the
direction of Shanghail (sketch A)..
2. A 6 - 7,000 ton merchant vegsel was docked at Taku Bar. The ship's side was
painted in white with a strip of green through the middle.
JUVO, three Chinese Communist naval vessels and two landing craft were obse
d
rve
sailing in a southerly direction. One of the naval vessels was approximately
tons and the other two were about 1,000 tons each (sketch A)..TThetely
landing craft were estimated to be a little over 1,000 tons each . (sketch B).
4.
two small Chinese Communist naval
vessels an one troop ship were anchored off Woosung (sketch C), and three to
five jet aircraft were flying overhead.
the CBANG CHIANG (7022/3068)
two landin
craft
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e t
,
g
,
n
roop ship,
and five patrol craft were anchored at the Naval pier number 1, Shanghai. There
were approximately five hundred Chinese Communist sailors undergoing drill practice
on the pier.
6.
uommunist naval vessels were observed sailing south in the vicinit
fT'
y o
ungsha.
Small gunboats were patrolling constantly between Shanghai and T'ungsha on 25
September.
7.
armed Chinese Communist soldiers and sailors were
b
d
o
serve
on
the streets of Shanghai. The soldiers were dressed in light grey uniforms and
the sailors were dressed in white uniforms with green.tritEtningr
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$. Cloth rationing was recently established in Shanghai. Each person is alotted
forty feet per year. Rice rationing has not been statted.
Sketch A
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