POLITICAL INFORMATION: LEFTIST WRITERS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300250006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSi 4TION C ' IDEiITIAL
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DATE DISTR. 31 jai ~.X)
SUBJECT Political Informations Leftist ::raters
Expected to "rain in $ s whai
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1. tiany translators and w riters employed by the Taos i3ewa Agency, the Shih Tai
Publishing Company, and Soviet.. sponsored magazines such as :Torld Culture
(Shih Chieh Chih shah JEC' ) are expected to rem n
Shanghai in the avant of Chinese Comtimlmist occupation,
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1CO Pao-oh'uan (% 1 4)
2. RO Pao-oh'uan is one of the more prominent writers in this group, She is
employed by Tass and the Shih Tai Publishing Company in the publication of
the Shih Tai ( 4 ) :7eekiyo KO was educated in .the USSR and has a
thoro x f the Russ sn language and literature, She is pro.
25X1 A6a Soviet, Comment, According to s0-9484 Ko is in charge of the
International ep n of the Propaganda Bureau of the Chinese Communist
Party in shanghais) KO also writes for the leftist periodicals Women
(Fix Nu and . odern Women (Hsian Tai Fu Vu It 4k .,t=
3. A num.ar of the leftist editors of the Shanghai Ta Kung Pao ccompanied
VVA:4G fun-sheng, the a ditor-in-chief, when he 3h9aghal for Hong Kong
in ;'.le earl, part of November 1948. lowever, several of the less important
prr.Ccum>unist writers remained on the Shanghai staff.
FAN Chi-ohiung (j
4. c"AN Uhi-ohiui is one of the pro-Communist writers who remained on the
',hanghai staff of the Ta Kunz Pao. He has been connected with this
newspaper since the a the war, P'AN is one of the three writers who
collaborated in translating one Thousand Americans and The Great Conspir
r ftizuit -'cassia ran au Ta 11U -V-3,& 'W 01MMIXG0
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For more de~:ailed information about the latter publication by 'none awarce
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'y, The outer two men collaborating in the translation of the publications
mentioned in paragraph 4 are ttsiac Yu "little fish"-pen name)
and LIA:dG Chfun-fu (, , LIAM also wrrites for Communist
magazinaas published. ins Hong Kong,
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Ba CHIN is also knmrai as C. K. Ki . Ile is believed to be the Hatao Yu
referred to in paragraph 5 (Br5O CHIN is a long-time editor of World Culture,
a weekly publication, who worked for the United States office ofd"""
Information during the warn omrent, It is not clear whether
or not he is an ~aditor of the vror u uree present times) From 1945
until early 1948 CHIN was Chief of eUi[na Press Section of the United
States Information Service. Ile is expected to advise the Chinese Communists
on American affairs, especially 'ruerican personnel and institutions in
Shanghai and ot'-er China areas.
74 C:IIN'S sister also worked for the United States Office of War Information
during the we.l. She recently married a leftist writer in Song Kong.
8. It is possible that the persons mentioned above will be arrested by the
Inspection 'rireau of the Shanghai Wooaung Garrison or by the Kuomintang
Bureau of Itveatigation before the Chinese Cc.-=mists occupy Shanghai,
However, at, the present tiri neither of these two agencies is concerned
with leftist ' riterso
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