ACTIVITIES OF THE BURMA COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006200710013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

IC-`Ills CIr'TV 25X1A
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INFORMATION REPORT cD NO.
.OUP',!TR" Burma.
SUBJECT Activities of the F'urma Communist Party
25X1A
DATE DISTR. 15 NOV 50
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1. At a large meetin of Burma 'Communist Party (BGP) leaders held near Daik-U
in Pegu Distric a resolution was passed to submit to
higher headquarters monthly reports on:
a. Partisans.
b. Local guerrilla forces and regular fighting units.
c. Attitude, movement and dispositions of members of the Peoples'
Volunteer Organization (PVO).*
2? ]haring the last three weeks of August the following acts of rail and road
sabotage** by the BCP have been officially reported.
District Items of Sabotage
Yametbin Several attacks on rail and road bridges.
Meiktila Theingon railway bridge blown.
Kyaukse Railway lines between subdivisions 17 and 18 of
milestone 355 removed.
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Nyin an Railway bridge number 86 between Mahlaing and
Meiktila sabotaged.
^againg Locomotive derailed one mile north of Ketkha
railway station.
Toungoo Railway bridge number 252 between Oktwin and Banbwegon
blown. Railway lines removed at milestone 213 between
l.a and Thawatti.
Tharrawaddy Railway lines removed between Khonnaywa and Kayingon
v pages. Railway lines removed from Wetkaw bridge.
Se,oral breaches on Rangoon Prome line.
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Items of Ssbota e
Railway lines removed near Thanatchaung.
Nattalin bridge damaged,
25X1 X Comment. This is presumably another stop the 13CP is taking to
tighten its discipline and prevent surrenders from its own and PVO
ranks, following the surrender of over 2,000 PVOs in Pegu District in
a single week late in July 1950.
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25X1X
comment, For details of a PVO meeting on 25X1 A
to discuss the surrender question, see 25X1A
omunent, It vill be noticed that communications are the sole
target. Nothing shows +hat the instructions issued in June 1950 for
the sabotage of government stores and patrol dumps have been put into
effect.
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