COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN TAIWAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000310022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: June 9, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT' CD NO, 25X1 A
COUNTRY China
SUEJFCT Comm mist Act'iv+'it .ee in Taiwan
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
25X1A
NO. OF ENCL S.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1 X
REPORT NO.
1. Communists have regularly attended Taiwanese family assemblies where such
problems as rationingp registrations, and new regulations were under dis-
cussion and have made speeches against the Nationalist Government and the
United. States.
Since late 1949 Communist activity has been continuously directed at
students, particularly those attending National Taiwan University. LI
Yu-ohleng ;r4_ t~ ? member of a Kuomiat; yoxattn otups was expelled
^ori the university for giving publicity to a. Vew 74earrs Communist demon-
stration. Two other students, CHPU Tez hx { ;''s r~ >',. and YANG I {,j-:
were executed as Communist spies.
CHI E' Chauan-t y Y C ', a veteran of the incident of 28 Yebrnary 1947,
was sent to Taiwan in. the stall of 1949 to organise Communist underground
groups. Upcn his return to Hong Kong in late December, he reported to the
Ta Ch4un Department Store, the liaison office of the Taiwan Demo
cratic Self-Governing League.. CHI 4 informed LID Yung, { f;. s ) a Taiwanese
Communist. that he had organized in Taiwan armed units totaling ten thousand
as a 023 February" formation.
k~ The units, divided into three detachments, have headquarters at Taipei
(Taiholux) s Tainan, and Taichung (Taichu) o The Tai . detachment Is co rm nandsd
by CHAsTG Wruwch?tx { % a ?) the Taichung detachment by Taiwanese Communist
TSS AI Haico chi iexn { - and the Taipei group by CHANG Ch " 9 tng-chq uan
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