STOCK PILING OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RUBBER/INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY, TIENTSIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A003800030008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Chines DATE DISTR. Jul 51
SUBJECT Stock Piling of Petroleum Products and Rubber/ NO. OF PAGES 2
Industrial Activ'ity, Ti.tsin
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2. Thousands of I gasoline and lubricating oil, of Russian origin, are ar?riv-
.ng in T?ieuteiu ant berg stored. in the vicinity of the Tientsin Race Club.
Large o ntitile y,f imported cr d rubber have arrived in Tientsin a . are being
stockpil,ed..
4+. More and more Soviet .itizene in civilian dreads have been noted, in and around
Tientai n.
90 What follows are y ko7n notes on, these items.
In summing lap, cu-z1 1 . a .F ;e~, Tientsin looks like a city preparing full tilt for war.
A number of r w faLtori e have sg+rA up In Tientsin. They are engaged in the
making and p&ttiug tag ether of ?aeeemblingf Soviet trucks and tanks.
6. New rubber factories are in operation processing the crude rubber supplies.
7. There are factorlee tti+. in s ut germs.
10. In March 1950, it was conservatively estimated that there
were 20 t ioneax' sov?ie t c tizene quartered in the Tientsin area under the USSR
11-tar r and CLltw,ral Relations with China plan. These were distinct from the
China Soviet Citizen' with whom they did not associate.
11. It is reaeo bls to assume th& ?the f'ac tories engaged in rubber operations are
rebv l.d.i) . zreatapplng' old tires. They may also produce a limited category
of rubber mili'a ,'~epirlias.
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12. The "factories turning out gun&' are probably the former Kuomintang arsenal in
the Roper area of Tieutsi* g*d/or the Japanese military depots which extend for 25X1
a distance of two miles earn. from .the former Belgian Concession.
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