CHINESE COMMUNIST ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY SITES, HANGCHOW AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005600670003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Antiaircraft.
Artillery Sites, Hangchow Area.
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. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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DATE DISTR. 2$ December 19511.
THE SOURCE' EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY' SEE REVERSE)
Comment. Strict Chinese Communist security made it. impossible to go
near any prohibited area; observations. were. made at a distance or,from a
,moving bus.
six antiaircraft
25X1
gun emplacements immediately northwest of the Ch'ient'ang River Bridge in
June. Last firm. information available on this bridge showed that it was
heavily defended by antiaircraft concentrations on both banks of the river.
2. [:=Comment.. this 25X1
naaoda faces south toward the.Ch?ient'ang. fiver.
Comment. On Sheet 9045 IV of the AMS 1:50.000 series,which shows 25X1'
the locations bu not the names. of pagodas and temples in the Hangchow area, .1
CONFIDENTIAL
I STATE ARMY NAVY 'AIR FBI, AEC
-1. There are four. antiaircraft guns at the foot of Mit'oshan`(1736/7090/11.72)
in.Sungmuch'ang (N 30-16, E 120-08) 25X1
2. On the south bank of the Ch'ient.'ang River by the edge of t}lie.Ch'ien Chiang
Ta'Ch'iao (6929/3068/1129/2890) are four.antiaircraft guns..
3. There are four antiaircraft guns on the mountain behind Liuhot'a (0362/0735/2
101.1.) Pagoda. The pagoda stands on the north bank of theCh'ient'ang River.
4. Four antiaircraft guns have recently been emplaced on the summit of the
mountain,opposite Szuyenching (N 30-12, E 120-07).
5. There is a searchlight at',Mit!oshan and another at Ch'ihshanfou (6375/11.72/1009.),
a ,suburb of.Hangchow. Other searchlights observed are probably in the vicinity
of Chiench'iao (N 30-19, E 120'-12).3
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the only pagoda located on the north bank of the Ch'ient'ang River is at
grid reference 188508, a few hundred yards west of the north .end of the
Ch'ient'ang River Bridge.
Comment. . The means
beams have een observed"
3.
10 searchlight beams over
here is probably "other searchlights whose
more than
Hangchow
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