PORT INFORMATION HAIK'OU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700720008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This ma$Klel ooataios lnfoeseetien sf-Ung the lbtboal Deter s of the United at"" within the meaning of the loeplotup Laws , Title
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person L prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY China
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRE
DATE ACQUIRED
Port Information, Haik'ou
6 May 1955
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED Information
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sections by a concrete breakwater
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or the inner harbor, was used for naval and military (4423/5391/e west 656),
entrance to the inner habor the water was a at shipping, fe. At the at the
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eastern entrance the water was not as deep, approximately 14 feet deep; at the
enter. The inner. harbor was constantly einand only g dredged by a small dredger. The
outer harbor was for commercial shipping. Three or four dredgers, the largest
of which vas the HAN KOW, were not in dperation.l
2. Two ships of the Military Transport Bureau (6511/6663/14+4), one of which was
the NU CHIANG (1829/3068) and the other the T CHIANG
in transporting ammunition from Canton to Haik'ou. These ( ships ps /3068),
puttn
always p were
at Haian (N 20-16, E 110-12) prior to in
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Transport Bureau ships were in Canton,oneof proceeding ' hich waskthe.SHUO CHIANG (
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3068). All of these chips were landing 2 G (2592/
craft.
3. No camouflaged buildings were seen in Haik'ou.
4. Attachment A is a sketch, not drawn to scale, of Haik'ou Harbor. The details
are keyed to the sketch by letter as follows:
a. Flashing red lights.
b. Flashing light, one red flash followed by three white flashes every two seconds.
c. Constant white light.
d. Haik'ou Naval Headquarters. Two-story building with a flag and a signal
station in the cupola.
e. Constant red light.
f. Main pier, about 200 feet long,:.intersecting another pier to form a T-shaped
pier. The cross section of this T-shaped pier sloped down into the water at
each end.
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g. crane for unloading ships.
h. Permanent one-story, cement warehouses built on platforms about two feet
high. rubber tires bind insulated wire were stored in
these warehouses. The warehouses built on high ground were used to store
cement, rice, motor oil, and steel.
i. Torpedo boat repair shop.
J. Floating pier.
k. Two cranes for lifting torpedo boats out of the water for repair.
1. Constant red light.
in. Constant white light.
n. Ten sheds for the construction and the repair of large wooden junks.
o. Customs building with tower clock.
p. Four-lane dirt road.
ns approximately north and south. five or six silver-
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Concrete surfaced airstrip with two intersection runways. One runway runs
approximately east and west with a mountain to the east. The other runway
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were on the a aircraft did not have swept-back
r. Military barracks area with 100 small barracks buildings, which were not
camouflaged.
s. Military hospital.
t. Four-lane dirt road leading to Wuchihshan (N 18-52) E 109-27).
u. Commercial ship anchorage with a water depth of 24 feet in the area.
Attachment B is a sketch, not drawn to scale, of the extremely hilly area
directly south of the main pier as shown at letter f on Attachment A. The
warehouses to the east and the west of Haik'ou Naval Headquarters were constructed
of wooden planks and were not permanent structures.
dredging operations were going to begin in the
outer harbor at an unspecified future date. The Chinese Communists had
raised some dredgers
These ships were known as "LI Tsuno--fen's landing rrraft+ "
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Attachment A
Haik'ou Harbor
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Area Southeast of Main Pier, Haik'ou Harbor
Training
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Teat Aron
AA duns OR high ground
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