ACTIVITIES OF LAM CHING-TAK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000020008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. LAM Ching-tak (LITI Cuing te), a leader of tiie oversees Chines= Community
In Medan, Sumatra, during; World War 11, organized the Overseas Chinese
Self.-Defense Corps ~o protect the lives and property of the Overseas
Chinese in Sumatra. He became coTnrianrler of the Corps; his Vice Commander
was LI Mao They worked closely together during the war.
2. Following the wan-, however, LI Mao began to spread Communist ideas among
members of the ; alf-Defense Corps, with the intention of using the Corps
as a ;ro-ComTmn at instrument. In this he ,Yas opposed by LAM,, who later
rlisba ?rrled the farps because it was no longe:? needed to maintain law and
order and heca tse he wished to prevent its ~a.tilization by the Communists.
As a. result cl his stand, LAM earned the enmity of the Coiinnunists, in
1947.,., LAN wag 'pro nded by an attack on his home by Communists with sub -
machine rain:; led by LI Mao.
In Jur;e 1.190i, the staff and students of the Eestern Sumatra Middle School
in ..Merian j,re ceha+ing which Chinese flag should be raised at the schools
A vote wa taken which resulted in 85 perce it in favor ;of the Nationalist
flap as ' pnosec to 15 percent or the Communist flap . L'ol? ow ng the
:lcac,sica pro-tommunist students and ;,eache.'s started a free-for-all f.Lght,
At a pasting of the Board of Directors called to settle the !fla=_atter, LAr4,
a boa-., newher, led a successful fight to oust from the faculty and
stud r c body pro-Cflrmnunis .- teachers and atudents ,
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