TRAINING OF VIET MINH TROOPS ON HAINAN
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CIA-RDP82-00457R006100630008-1
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RIPPUB
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C
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 6, 2001
Sequence Number:
8
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Publication Date:
October 26, 1950
Content Type:
REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Indochina
SUBJECT Training of Viet '.'inh Troops on IIainan
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 26 Oct. 1950
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1? Five thousand Viet : Iinh troops are completing a three-month course at
the former Chinese :Jationalist training center at T'eng Ch'iao (109-1i3,
13-23) on ::ainan Island,
2. The center is referred to locally as a training center for the Chinese
Co;:mmntnist 15 gray Group, and is visited often by Ceiiera3. ,'umm 'Iua,
co-,,,.;and--r of that army.
3. The training of Viet ::firth troo')s is under Soviet supervision. The
Vietnamese recruits are known by Chinese naiaes,
!t. a grow,) of 300 Viet :.:irth air force personnel is pres.:ntly being; trained
at' Sanya on Hainan. These nen are being trained by ex-Luftwaffe prisoners
of war under Soviet supervision. Thirty additional German prisoners of
wae ara expected to join the staff in late October.*
25X1 A Comment. Virtually this same information was broacast in
.~nglish I:orse, on 23 October 1950, from Hong Kong by the Pan ,siatic
"le-us .llliance, a Chinese .Jationalist news a;eney, The broadcast
stated, however, that the number of 'Diet inh trainees had not been
ascertained.
22 3e-Dte .tber 1350,
reported the depart2b51 A
of 37 former German . it ponce personnel from Ca en for Hainan on
25X1 A Comment.
CONFIDENTIAL in al.cordic.nce with th
letter of 10 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
This document is hereby reg;ac:ecl t~
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