MOVEMENT OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SOVIET TROOPS TO FRONTIER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100110052-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: January 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL ,INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR/Communiat China REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Movement 'of Two l Hundred:Thousand. Soviet
Troops to Frontier
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1. An important movement of Soviet troops from West to Fast has taken place
during the last few weeks, most of -t probably during Nov 1953. The move-
ment has been in re6nforoement of Soviet divisions already stationed on
the Chinese-..oviet frontier In Manchuria.
2. Troop movements are common enough, though not always on such a. scale. The
queer thing about this troop movement is that it has not been carried out
with the utter discretion that usually cloaks any movements of the lied rmy4
In this case, it is true, Moscow has not been unduly obvious about it and
has not exactly shouted its march orders from the housetops. On the other
hand, the military authorities have shown a certain complaisance in letting
the news leak out and even in allowing' it to reach the American intelli., ;ence
services,
3. It is clear that, in transferring' these -troops, the Soviet leaders are making
a. visible gesture of friendship toward the Chinese and North Koreans, They
are doing this at the very moment when the future of the two Koreas is under
discussion. Moscow wants to prove that the lied Army is all ready to move, in
case tension grows worse as a result of a. breaking off of negotiations.
4. The USSR. is careful to utter no imprudent words. They know that the United
States would be Clad enough to snap them up for propaganda use, Instead, here
is a.ctA',on indicating "oviet-Chinese military solidarity, yet carried out with
more or less discretion. This may be interpreted as a: wa.rni.n4;F in case an anti-
Communist crusade or a, r ra.rch to the Yalu should be envisaged by the United States,
should efforts to reach e,L;reerrent on Korea, fail. It is also a warning against
any a.'r offensive against the Yalu bases and the l'anchurian military install-
lations. Peiping and Pyong-Yang are: both aware that the axis of s',.atie ,olida.r?.ty
passes first throu ;h Moscow.
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