POLITICAL INFORMATION: ACTIVITIES OF SOVIET AND PRO-SOVIET OFFICIALS, SHANGHAI

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Political Information: Activities of Soviet
and Pro.Soviet Officials, Shanghai
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1. Since the arrival in Shanghai on 20 May 1948 of General Roshchin, newly-appointed
Soviet Ambassador to China, an increasing number of officials from the Shanghai
Soviet Consulate, Torgpredstvo, TASS, and the USSR Embassy in Nanking are marked
for recall to the USSR.
2. The USSR Embassy in Nanking recently received an order from Moscow for the ime.
diate preparation for evacuation to the USSR of families of Soviet official p=3r-
sonnel. This evacuation will begin during May 1948 with the next trip of the
Smolt and will, be carried out in the following order: (1) Families of Soviet
officials who have children, (2) Soviet women not employed in official represen-
tations, and (3) Soviet women employed in official representations but not
essential to the work at hand. Orders for the evacuation were accompanied by
the #ollovding instructions: "In reply to comments about the evacuation from
China of dependents of Soviet officials, it should be stated that the children
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3. The following Soviet official personnel of Torgpredstvo are leaving Shanghai for
the USSR during May and June 1948: D. Ya. Shcherbina and family; Kosirev and wife;
Seminar; Lars. Arinicheva; Mrs. Kovalenkova and children; and a. Panteleimonova.
4. Nikolai. Vasilevich Stolbov, who arrived in Shanghai on 20 April on the ____1.
has been assigned to Torgpredstvo, Shanghai. He replaced Nevkin, who left for
the IISSR on 29 April 1948. Levkin stated before his departure that he is being
recalled because he is not a Party member. He claimed that he had waited three
years to coma out from the USSR, only to be recalled after three months. Stolbov
is a Party member.
5. r i.l. Sergeyev, who arrived on 20 April on the Smo1r;r is the new chief account-
ant for Torgpredstvo, China. He and the superintendent of the Nanking office of
Torgpredstvo left Shanghai on 21 April with their wives for Nanking. They were
accompanied by Lugon Feodorovich Sharov, employee of the Shanghai Torgpredstvo
office.
6. I. Ya. Kovalenko, assigned to Exportkhleb, Hongkong, arrived in Shanhai fr^m 5X1C
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Hongkong on 28 April 1948.. Kovalenko was supposed to arrive in time to leave on
the Smol3r, but failed to do so.
1'. Uimitri Ya. Bhcherbina,, director of Torgpredstvo, China, arrived in Shanghai on
.`;1 April from a trip to Bangkok.
8. Aleksei Andreyeeich Fanteleimonav, employee of Torgpradstvo, Shanghai, left by
CNAC plane for Bangkok via Hongkong on 12 May 1948.
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their varionwly reported initials, s
10. F. P. sihalin, former Shanghai Soviet Consul General,, has been appointed Secre?r.axy
of the Far Eastern Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under S. Lozovax
Khalints forger living gtusrti in the Shanghai Soviet Consulate have been turned
over to P. Chernonebov, Acting Shanghai Consul General, and some of Khalin's per-
sonal belongings which he had left in Shanghai were loaded on the Smol on 25 April.
Some local Soviet citizens believe that Khalin will be replaced byChernonabot or
by Barkov, who arrived in Shanghai on 20 April on the Smolnq.
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11. ffi=1in will also go to Manchuria on an important mission. He has asked M. A.
D orodin, former Sovi t industrialist in Ianchuria and now
an active Soviet ci'.i.zen
In Shanghai, to transport with him to Manchuria some of the things he (Khalin
left in Shanghai.
120 'ikhom rov, director of the Shanghai branch of the Moscow Narodry Bank,, is a 3e I-emely
popular in the Soviet community because of his frankness and friendly response to
local Soviet youth groups. Tikhomircm has practically replaced Chernonabosv said
SASS leaders in dealing with the Soviet community because he appears to be they
only L".oscow dispatched leader. in Shanghai who is sufficiently interested to ae;i; as
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13. E. Roman (Roman Abel; S , prominent Shanghai Soviet businessman, gc 5X1A
to the Soviet Consulate several times a'seek to confer with V. Kryukov, Attaote of
the USSR Embassy assigned to the Shanghai Soviet Consulate.
146 Recently V. V. Chilikin went to Macao to confer with Communist representatives
from South China, Indochina, and Burma regarding the transportation of arms ar: i
ammunition. V. Kryukov gave young Chilikin his instructions for this trip.
150 K. A. Lobachev arrived in Shanghai recently from Tientsin and went to the offices
of the Union Steamship Agency at 51 Canton Road. Lobachev's real name is Pantheliov
25X1 X and he is a major in the Red Army, Originally he belonged to Marshal K. K.
Rokossovsky'a arnv, which is concentrating in the southern districts of the Mon-
25X1 A golian People's Republic. This armgr includes mechanized forces.
25X1 A Comments - states that Rokossovsky is the "overall Soviet com-
mander" of troops on the Kuantung Peninsula, M It also comments that a 25X1 X
U.okossovsky has been reported as "supreme commander of the Soviet Far East High
Cam.") In Tientsin Pantheliev communicated with the Chinese Communist Amy,
Y North China through the North China News Agency. Since his arrival in Shanghai
he has attempted to establish contact with Chinese Communist elements in the area.
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N. I. Frolov. A. T. Alekseyev, and T. M. Garlokov have been transferred to the
USSR Military Attache's office in Nanking from Port Arthur, where they had been
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16. On 1l April 1948 the Shanghai Soviet Consulate invited prominent pro-Soviet
Slavic leaders to a dinner party and a meeting on the Consulate premises.
A. A. Arinichev, director of Torgpredstvo, Shanghai, gave a lecture on "United
States Aid to China". Among the pro-Soviet leaders attending were the followings
i. Zale eki, Polish, 298/11 South Tih a. Road
G. M. Rachinaky, Rumanian lawyer, office at 480 East Nanking Road, residence
at 1333 Avenue Joffre
P. Becic (Betchich), Yugoslav, 10 Paoking Road
A. Konoveta, Czechoslovak
Mr. M lichek (r1 1kiez) (See paragraph 17.)
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1'. I.:la1kdsz (also reported as Marichel), who replaced Langer as manager of Omn:ipol.,
Limited, Shanghai, left Shanghai on 25 April by air for Rangoon and Bombay.
lie and the employees of Omnipol have their salaries sent to them from the cons---
pany headquarters in Prague. For the past year Omnipol in China has done no
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Garik (full name unkn(Pim), S. Ambaryants, and General YANG participated in the
Victory Celebration held by the Soviet Citizens' Club on the night of 8 May.
According,to Garik, General YANG was a member of the Chinese Mission in Moscow
when the German surrender was signed. Since that time General YANG has maintained
close contact with Soviet authorities. He donated a large sum of CNC to the
Soviet Club during his visit there in May.
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