POLITICAL INFORMATION: RUSSIANS IN COMMUNIST SECTIONS OF MANCHURIA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 24, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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'RAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Politics]. Informations Russians in Communist
sections of Manchuria
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ORIGIN
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INFO.
DIST 2 January 1947
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1. Ts:.tsihar 25X1 X6
a. Three of the four sources reporting mentioned a Soviet consulate in
Tsitsihar; one source remarked that it has been there ever since the
Soviets withdrew from Manchuria. Two of the sources commented that
the Russians have concentrated themselves in the consulate area. One
source said that on3,y Russians are allowed to enter the district with-
out the permission of the consulate. One source identified
consulate as being in the old Manchurian Mining Company building.
25X1 X6 There are s 4id to be 40 to 50 White Russians in the city. Most of
them run tea shops or have dairy farms. There are a number of Soviet
ex-soldiers. Al the latter wear civilian dress. 25X1 X6
2. inga gchi (123-48,, 47-09)
25X1 X6 The Soviets have a message center at gangchi through which they
co ?xrnicate with Siberia. Source states he has seen Russians there
in civilian clothes whom he had previously seen in uniform.
.nchou .i (117-27j, 49 36 )
a. Two sources state that there are about 1,000 White Russians in P chouli.
One of them gives the population of that town as 10,000. Both. agree
that many of these White Russians work -for the railroad. One source
states that many of them also run shops. = They are all said to
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b. One source states there is a consulate at l chou3.i.
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night." The Russians do not mix much with the Chinese or Japanese.
4. Cho Erh forest Area (121, 47) A?
Thera is a railway spur here extending Into the timber region. Th-s
many White Russians in the area are negotiating with the Mongolian
'People's Republic to replace Chinese in the lumber industry. 25X1X6
25X1 A6a note: The 'gt~Qa mentioned is in Manchuria, close to
Mongolian border.) There is much friction between Russians and
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` :~ ;haleantun (l224.5cIt8~011
There are about 600 White Itus ,ian families in Uhalantun ` he head
of the White hussiun issociation is a 35 dear old man r.!rtrrted
Cholirnoskino He speaks fluent i. oni;o1ian,, Chi neseE, Japanese, and
e4r:tost; likely" I:4rr;;l i.sh? as well as Russian. .curing ;;no i. anoliukyao
re-;ime, he ran 4; tea root. He was arrested by the Japanese many tiles
and sent to Tokyo, but alsrtsyc released, nnren the Soviets carne to
Chalanturin Cholimoskin became friendly .;i th the soviet Con hander,,
who ia$ued hi. a doctaltir lmu Uti V.L1t6 illl;: C::. K1 1ui oj' a Iti.l'
a dairy fares, the lar-rest house in Chalantun,, and such Japanese assn; ::
as old autum bi ies and o uher- broken--do-:in equi prierrt, FollcwinL his
c xampie. the Vd 1.r to Rus#i vn_,, have tskerg over !?1.1 r he 1.,'!.e" hot-,s:.
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Lurrlrch ? i.rtg (l29-26,Lf2?-,h7;
At Lunching , source obr,orv'ed five Soviet officers in i'orM9 are C1i&iC9tit3,r' ''t?Cl Soldier rs or S01d.1O 5 in Civilian clothes,, bourne
at'.ated he became very friendly -;.ith a Soviet soldier during the
Soviet C:;C;ucat ion WIG' that he has sinoe seen hirn in civilian clothes
in Harbin,, 25X1X6 25X1X6
The Soviets contro . the sehurin Company ( and the Northern
Tasty arian lradirtc: Gompan`yo 1 25X1 X6
(The balance of this pert i.:s f'r ora a Chinese resident of NenohianC Provinces 25X1X6
eho ar'riv'ed in Changchun from Harbin on Source is strongly
ant1-Corrailunist
The Soviets are :rtaintid.in1ng consulates in all important Communist-held cities
25X1X6 -such as Tsitsihar, Harbin, al.-c, ::ost of the people entering the Ilarbin Con-
sulate are Chinese Commurnist oficerI3o
IT, One of the large Russian fiept..rtment stores in TsitsiharA, the, _,n Tan Liedt
25X1 X6 = e+ei Ta Qun is "bei:e;; used us the. Chinese Comaquni t-Soviet lice+d quarters The
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About omnpa rnortth, General J-314 Pico Coes to i; cscew to act as liaison between
the Soviets and the Lhinese Cornmurtists,s
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