"MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, CENTRAL CHINA"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003900250005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 5, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEN IRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY O.b.ina
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information, Central China
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO.
2. The tsatru pla" stage of land reform has already bemin in Shangehiu (I
south of the Lunghai Railroad in northeast lionan. A.11 -property titles have
reverted to the community, and some landlords have been jailed. :Vlach group
of three landlords must grind 40 catties of millet and contribute one -ricul
of winter daily. Shops, factories and all of the people complain unanimously
of the heavy quarterly taxes without effect.
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3. At 6 p.m. on 23 November 1949 Wanking merchants heard a rumor that the
Communists had lost Chungmirzg Island in the mouth of the Yangtze River. The
resulting vrsve of panic selling was only controlled.a day and a half later.
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4. Nanking Communist authorities are training a grout of spacial service
operatives for uiork in and around Nanking under a bureau cal'ed the Ching-
peiru
Land Reform in Ronan Commun:iz
F?nrg~leise of Scrap Iron
5. The Shanghai Communist administration has sent several renresenta.tives to
Nanking to purchase scra> iron, allegedly to be used in building boats for
the assult on Tai:,ien.
CLASSIFICATION ;tr/co, 7xcL _ U.S. O1 "ICLJ S o!'Lr
DATE DISTR. 5 Dec. 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
A gbandmeat of Djssjdent Units
Ss hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in a
This document
Next Review Sates.
Date: 2008
Dissident units in the Tapiehshan (115.., 3l.) areahave been disbanded,
but the personnel still remain as 300,000 individual i'roblems to the
ComrunIsto in the area*.
Coibmentt. Possible coordinates for Shangchiu are (115--;17,
34--6) or (115..42, 34-30
tCONFI6ENTIAL
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