ESTIMATION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESENT AND FUTURE COMBAT STRENGTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006600520006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2003/08/11 _: CIA-RDP82-00457R006600520006-0
COUNTRY China
CENTRANTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION SE
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SUBJECT Estimation of Chinese Communist Present
and Future Combat Strength
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From a atus of available information, it is estimated that present
Chinese Communist front line combat strength numbers 2,270,(00 men,
This number can be increased In three months to 4,420,000 men by call-
ins troops now assigned to the various military districts, and increased
tr) 10,000,000 men in nine months by calling militia now engaged in pro-
ductive activities.
F "fn`.s document is heresy regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accord-Ice with the
latter of 16 October 1973 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2006
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