POLITICAL INFORMATION: ESTABLISHMENT OF INFORMBUREAU SECTION IN SHANGHAI TASS; OPINION CONCERNING NEW USSR POLICY

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• Publication Date: November 3, 1947
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COUNTRY China
liEJECT Political Information g Establishment of
Informburean Section in Shanghai Tess;
'septet/ea Concerning New USSR Police'
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1. A special section of the ear East Informbureau will coon be esteblished vithig 5X1X6
the Taps News Agency in Shanghai. This section will act independently of the
management of the local Tess office but will beoffielally part of Tags. This
section will be under a special appointee of Lozovsky. The new Lozovsky-appointed
personnel are expected to arrive on the next repatriation ship coming to ShaugLai.
After their arrival the new section will start functioning.
2. The Informbureau in its present form is one of the most powerfue Soviet informa-
tion organizations, to which even Taos is subordinated. After the arrival of
the 'new Informbureau personnel in Shanghai, radical changes in the local struc-
tuxo of Tess are expected and special attention will be paid to he Chinese and
American section of Tess.
3. loxovsky his already expressed his dissatisfaction with the ShaLghai Tees office
because more attention has been paid to general news than to *special information.*
4. The expected changes in the local Tess oefice will probably affect M. Takshamin
but not RogovOireotor of ease in Chine/ since Bogey is a "Loscvsky man." The
local (7 locally hired T) Teem personnel will remair, but speciel effort. will
25X1X6 be made to place in the MSS organization more Chinese and fore;gn employees
because tho Russian (1 emigrant ?) staff produces little along he line of "broad
information work* and are good only for the usual technical woe of the office.
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Soviet prose. Se. following paragraph for his observations.)
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5. Klarin insists that after the return to China of Ambassador Petrov, the USSR
will begin a new rolicy Vig*..A.--iris Chinn in the nature of violent pressure end
even throats. Rlarin states tir,t he it lad to leave Shanghi an Chinn
the present time regnrdless of vhat hey finally 1111-en to him in the USSR.
Klarin expects chaotic conditions in Shanghai and feels th,t forcAgners, es-
pecially Ru-sians, both Soviet end emigre, will be subject to repression and
privation. Klarin bases this belief on what he claims as "intimli.te informrtion
!rot top Soviet officials in Shanghai" who have reportedly told him thrt they
are prepared to send their families to the USSR soon.
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6. The extension of Loeovskyls activity to Shanghai by the establishment of an
Informbureau section in the local Tess office represents evidenca that Eo scow
is e21)ecting a showdown in the Far Zest soon and that the USSR is interested in
covering the impressions, feelings and intentions of various groos in China ?
and arly Shanghai-when this new action by lioscow is started.
Note: The "new action" referred to above in presumably such activity
As Klarin Mentions in paragraph 5 as part of the new USSR policy toward China./
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7. None Of the prominent Soviet citizens in Shenghni doubt that in the present stet-.
of international events oscow is paying the utmost attention to Chinn- The
portamce of the Far :last in the present foreign policy of the USSR is evidenced
by the fact that Lozovsky is vrsonally directing the work of the Tar :last Inform-
bureau. He is recognized as one of the best Soviet experts on the Far East,
25X1X6 having spent practically all of his political life engaged in special Comintern
(n.11(b)) Peosouznii Kommunisticheski Partii (Bolshevikii)-.A11-Union Communist
Party (Bolshevik/ activity in the Far East and has many times vsited China;
Japan, Koren, the Philivpines, nnd Indochina.
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