COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN BURMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600460011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 ~ In Ran goon, the lower Burma center of the Burma Co -n- ur is t Party (BCP),
increased party activity is forecast, to ;tether with a purge of unre-
liable ele'ients, and an intensification of ideolo.ical instruction and
primary cell formation. The ,goal is reportedly a nen ership of 12,(10
in 1 angcon district by the end of the year; Comr nIsts in itan loon have
been instructed to collect .intelli,;ence abcut lovernvnent forces and
officials and their movements, and to attempt penetration of 3overnr,.-8nt
depart=cents and public utilities. Unconfirmed reports indicate the
possibility that the I3CP has a center for Tapper Bur:ta.
2. The Central Committee of the BCP has issued a directive that the Karen
de-land for a separate State should be opposed on the ground that, it
would ensure a pear:anent schism between the Karens and the 3urmnese.
'fforts are to be made to win over the Karens b-. propa.~anda and by the
,format-,.on of new' Yaren Lea,;ues, while the Karen national Union and its
leader Saw Ba U Sri are unfailin -ly denounced as separatists and tools
of impe~ri alism. A pamphlet iss-.ied ' by the Snprer'e headquarters of the
forces conposin? the People's Democratic Front (PUF) appeared in Rangoon
duarin;; the month exhortin the PDF to exter?'inate the Gormrvrist Party
(3urrna) (CPB or "Red Fla; Co-minists"), the Y.arens and the Socialist
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3w There is some interest in the arrest at Lashio early in August, of two
Chinese, one of whom was carr-rin T Chinese Communist literature descrjb-
in=F the achievements of the People's Liberation Army and the advk*'zce of
C'''J Chia-pi's forces into central Yunnan.
L Of the front or anizations in Burma, the Chinese c-Pn's Association,
which is affiliated to the i3urraa Branch of the China i)e-wsratic Lea.;~ue
(CDL), is displayin,; Interest in the All-Cn7.na )emocratic ' omen's
Federation in Peipin , while the All-13uur' a Students' ;;pion i.s Bourn to
be desirous of stren:;t,'ieriin its connections with the International
Union of Stludents.
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