NAVAL AND AIR ACTIVITY, FOOCHOW AND SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008100480003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 3, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the taplonage Laws, Title
18, U.B.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by 1s 25X1
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
Naval. and Air Activity, Foochow
and Shanghai
3 October 25X1
1. At 1900 hours six motorized Junks berthed near Mawei (N 25-59,
E 119-27) and sc rge a tity of arms or ammunition. There were several
antiaircraft guns on the hills near Mawei naval base. Troops occupied 12 tents
located near the guns. 25X1
at Foochow, armed motor junks and harbor launches were camouflaged 25X1
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there were daily alerts at Foochow that lasted about
20 or 30 minutes each. Ships' crave at Foochow were required to return to
their ships at 1900 hours daily; during alerts, crew members were required
to remain in their cabins.
Shanghai
5- bout 80 motor launches were in the vicinity of Buoy 21,
Shanghai These launches had a speeil of about 20 knots and were armed with
two machine guns forward and two aft. Two groups of 30 launches each 25X1
conducted training exercises in the mornings while the
remaining twenty launches stayed at their moorings along the river.
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6. the destroyer NAN CH'ANG (0589/2+90) and another destroyer
or about i,uuu -cons were anchored at the Shanghai military district anchorage.
The NAN CH'ANG was armed with two 14-inch guns, one fore and one aft and four
antiaircraft guns. Four landing craft, HO PING are
berthed at the same location; these landing craft displaced about 1, ons 25X1
each.3
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7. 25X1
8.
two or three swept wing het aircraft flew over 25X1
Shanghai. several timesa day.
each launch to be 150 feet in length.
comment.
2. The motor launches may have been LCI's and LCT's. The speed and the number
of the craft have probably been overestimated.
3. Previous sighting reports indicate that the PF NAN CH'ANG is 25X1
normally based at Shanghai. The HO PI1 's are all 25X1
ex-United States LST.'s, 3327 gross tons, now running between Shanghai and
North China ports.
estimated 25X1
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