ANNIHILATION OF GUERRILLAS IN TAPICHSHAN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800490005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION RE-PORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Ghi:za
SUBJECT Annihilation of Guerrillas in aniehslian Area
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1. Prior to July 1950 g uerrille. forces in the Ta?aiohsh2n (11E- , 31- ) area
totalled a_) ?roximately 20,000. Those forces vroro _-)artly inclanondent aril.
Partly s1k)-?orteci by the '.sinistry of l:etional Defensoo* The Coi=aunist`
attem-)tad to suppress those guerrillas, using from two to four armies,
but results were indecisive.
2. In early July four Communist armies surrounded the area between the Yangtze
river on the south, the liaichou-Linchou Railroad on the north]*tho Pangfou
(117.26, 3247)--IIofoi (117-18, 31-54)-Yuchi (118-16, 31-27) Railroad on
the east, and the Peiping Ilanl:ocr Railroad on the west. ':Jhcn the Communist
forces were in position around the area, the population was ordered to
evacuate with all belongings in two weeks. Ifhen the two weeks had expired,
the Communists attacked from all sides and annihilated the guerrilla force
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*Cormnento states that a guerrilla rearosentative
from Tapiehshan vtho contacted Nationalist military officials on Taiwan
was refused aid and direct i--n for his groin because of its liberal
economic and. social. policies anc.~ its refusal to accent comrland from
.C Jen-fong.
believed that source has exaggerated the scone of Conmumi.st aaerations?
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Presumably the railroad extending from Ilaichou to
Kaifengo-1'i~.e extent of Conm.iunist operations for the su3 )ression of
guerrillas in the Tapiehshan area a)?oareto be unduly large, It is
let
Arest of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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