ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INFORMATION: SOVIET EMPLOYEES OF CHINESE CHANGCHUN RAILWAY COMPANY MUKDEN OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001400810003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In 1943 and 191w all key per:mnnel and dei*rtt .r t bead* of the ( 1neEe Changehu:i
(Cho Cl ) Rail in Uukden are Soviet citizens. `:tees Soviet afaploynes
of tho railws rema.3.ned until l December 1946, then the,, left Sukden for the USSR
After the Chireso Natic:ta1 Co'rerrirtent had put cons.14erab1.c pressure on thou nd
had appointed Cliineao to their pw Aons. Wore he laft 1CL'?~do=t in this sup,
Itallwta -Colonel. PoUctsaent, Di actor (Third } 3c) of 'tbci Shoot ang District D o,, ri..
Arent of the CU?i case Char. 'chur. Railway., addressed the -irvi.et cviw 1Qyeec rtto ;sere c
r?:crcai.a. f otkr i avid that official. Soviet repress tt.atton on the railway wan
oaaaiaC bbcauso the 1 c tio;r-1 c v rznorit. of Ctririt had c o1ateci the terms of the
Sire-Soviet Troat of 1945 (concorning the railway) o.+ had appointed Chinofuu to
all positions of authority and control in the cL.:tpar r. fe Ruttier atated -Misl> :.?is
Soviet zuthori,tice In the (-so , a w had roc.i ved no co c;) ~zrr tion, rely antaicnis i,
from the Chincee. He added that the Soviet enplciyee who rer ai need na' be
concerrind for Vi air future ao the ccacpry 'Could cventt lly return to Soviet conbro.
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the ;1oycee tvjd be t,3ven good positions,
provioied a joint control by China and the USSR for a period of thirty years.
rtcteat is a ratiorrall of Chi .~ ,
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Article VIII Y+ s, in pert, It the Chief of z d
the Assistant Chief Chan be a national of the Soviet .Iui.an, and vice tveA san )
Ttla Soviet pct sonnel 1i steel Laloit rrc su14ord_irztu to tic: Chineua "oppo&& ALt e namLr :?%"'
In addition tc thcaa there are about 120 sort-010:rvse emtloyreoc of t e rai cay in
Mukden, most rf them Soviet citizf r::s.. They ;ii N3 considered to be locally-hired
artplcyeos of the C1in ao arlr?~i.nitr,::.tion and rot tteber3 of .rte official :~oviet
ropr centatior,, as the Soviet i:w a .sy in NankinE, t:nnounced in l9;! 7 that on the
mil edy ;here %ero no So ri"'. citiseu>