POLITICAL INFORMATION: TENSION BETWEEN MAO TSE-TUNG CLIQUE AND LI LI-SAN CLIQUE IN CHISMUSSU, MANCHURIA (130-21, 46-49)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600680005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 7, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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:O i Gal Infor:.ation: Tension Between
:4AO Tse-tung Clique and LI Li-san Clique
in Chieinusau, ...anohuria (13)-21, 46..49)
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1. Tension between the MAO Tse-tung Clique' and the LI Li-san Clique is increasing
in Cb1& esu. Cohtrol of the political orga;,~ization s and the far.mcr and :labor
groups in the area was once almost wholly in the hands of, members of the North--
rest Politburo - (The MAA Tse-tung Clique). Recently the Far East ?olitbiur 0
has sent a large number of people into the area; several of these people have
received training in the USSR,
2, In addition, LT Li-san has spent a large sum of money in Chiamussu to purchase
the support of local military leaders. The m s Cant leader "bought" b
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3 On 16 February 1948,. six persons including BAD lieu-hsia ( 1 ?), former
commanding general of the 7th Military District during the Manchukuo era,, arrived
at Chiamussu by air. They were welcomed at the airfield by FANG Chliang;
CEIAN To .ice head of the Chi_amussu Public Safety (Police
Bureau) Bureau; Ho~~;en
~ J *~ ~.= -) , head of the lIclung Youth '"raining n..i ng
Center (See .So' 1506'0; sod other high ranking Chiamussu officials., was
officially announced that the pt-rpose of HAO's visit was to establish better
liaison relations with Chiamussu officials., The real pur pose of the visit was
to line up support for the establishment of an independent autonomous government
in the Northeast. HAO's visit was condemned by the MAO Tse-tung group and
LI Yen-lu ( ; . , Governor of Uochiang Px?o~uince TilN Rsien-ch"iao
(' 41b ) ,Ilriayor of Ch iamussu, and LTU Lan"po j m ,/See SO- 8194,
#ormissioner of the Farmers Movement. The day after HAOas arrival many posters
appeared in the city carrying the words, "Down with the big traitor,, HAO Mu -hsla"
When RAO left Chiamussu the only official to see his off was CHANG Too -fan..
According to local newspaper accounts, HAO is a native of Fengchengllsien (324.05,
40-28),, Ire 1933 he became commander of the "Demonstrating and Training Detachment"
under Kanchukuo officials; in 1940 he became head of the general staff section
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commander of the 7th Military District which had its headquarters inmGbia ussu,
^ 4 The MAO Tse-tunr. Clique in Chiamussu will not oppose the formation of an
independent autonomous state in the Northeast but will oppose the inclusion of
arm former Puppet officials in the new g ot
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