TAIWAN DISTURBANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01446R000100070011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 31, 1957
• Content Type: MFR

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31 May 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Taiwan Disturbance
1. In 1954, I wrote a memo on FORMOSA: ITS RELATION-
SHIP TO FREE ASIA. In this memo, I enumerated certain derogatory
incidents - of Chiang Ching-kuo and concluded it with a sense of security
concern.
2. This memo was shown to OCI. It was read, discussed, and 25X1A2dD
treated as an ordinary item, although a little later OCI informed the
Director, on the basis of this memo, that there existed some probability
213arnal subversion in Taiwan.
3. During the summer of 1955, Ambassador Rankin paid a visit
to ONE. In the course of the question and answer period of the debrief-
ing, I asked the Ambassador why, if Ching-kuo was such an anti-Com-
munist as the Ambassador believed, the Communist Peking radio did not
condemn him as they (Communist) condemned the Gimo. I told Ambas-
sador Rankin that Peking Communist regime had condemned and abused
the Girno, but they had not uttered a word against Ching-kuo, since the
Chinese Nationalists had moved to Taiwan.
4. About two weeks after Rankin's return to Taiwan, the Peking
radio, out of the clear sky, uttered a few words of seemingly unfriendly
remarks against Ching-kuo twice. Since then, and to this day, nothing
more from Peking about Ching-kuo!
5. The Chinat anti-American demonstration on 24 May 1957 was
the second anti-American demonstration in Taiwan in less than two years.
The first such demonstration, which took place during the winter of 1955,
was carried out according to plans carefully laid out by Chiang Ching-kuo.
According to all available evidence pertaining to the second anti-American
demonstration, there seems to be no doubt that Chiang Ching-kuo, played
the deciding role again.
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][ phoned in the Director's office, and called his
attention to my 1954 memo. remembered it well. 25X1A9a
OCI now seems to recognize that my suspicion of Ching-kuo was
justified.
SRS/DDI
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