CONDITIONS IN SINKIANG, INCLUDING TROOP DISPOSITIONS, ROAD CONSTRUCTION, AND CIVILIAN MORALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700100005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Ci7tTRAL_ INTELLIGENCE kGENCV FEPOR t` NO,
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SUBJECT Conditions in Sinkiang, Including Troop Dispositions, NO. OF PAGES 2
25X1 A Road Construction, and Civilian morale
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The troop strength of the USSR post at Qizil Ribat (74 45; 37-28) formerly
70 men, has been Increased to 3,050. These troops are commanded by a
ieneral. The post has been connected with the interior of the US:'R b
y a
motor road and now a trainl/ runs between Qizil Ribat and Murghab (73-58; 38:.10),
and a daily train carries arms to Qizil Ribat.
2. A new rotor road from Qizil Ribat to Pfuli (Teshkurghan 75-14; 37-45) via
Shingan Nullah2 is under construction. Three hundred coolies, as well as
some Soviet soldiers, are working on this road.
3. The population in P'uli believes that when the new route from t,izil Ribat
to P'uli is completed, the USSR will ask the Chinese Communists to attack
Pakistan, fearing that Pakistan will invade Sinkiang to help their fellow
4o Propaganda in rinkiang is stating that the Chinese ought to take the Ladakh
airfield because the Americans intend to use it in their invasion of China
via Kashmir and Tibet. The Ladakh road was closed in early December 1950.3/
5,, A new arms f ctory is functioning in Kashgar. Steel is arriving from the USSR
via Indijan41 in return for which raw materials such as cotton and wool are
being exported to the USSR,5/
Vii. The `~ otan district of Sinkiang raised 12,000 Na+ionalist soldiers who have
pouf/ accepted the Cormunist Regime. Communist soldiers have now6/ entered
the Khotan area. This area produces gold, silk, and cotton.
7. All aircraft have been taken from Kashgar to Korea. There is no air service
between Kashgar andrikol (sic).
8. Muslims in Sinkiang are discontented with the Communist regime. Officially
there are no restrictions on prayers, but orchestras play for dancing at
evening prayer tire to distract the young, and younp men enlisted as soldiers
have no +hime +o attend religious services. Gatherings of more than four
neon?e are prohibited. In Kashgar, daily lectures stress the Korean war,
boasting of secret Soviet weapons a thousand tires more powerful than the
'Atom Bomb, and capable of defeating America in two weeks.
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9. The T"usli*ns and. old Chinese are secretly planning to rise against thq
Communists if war starts in China. The Turki M lim? and the x are
in consultation and with help and leadership are ready to dye against the
Communists, but they are handicapped by a shortage of arms. The Communists
are searching every Muslim house to collect all arms0 including rifles,
swords, and knives. In the two provinces of Kashgar and 'arkand there are
400,000 troops and 25,000 awned police. Every day the soldiers round up
the local population to work on the road from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The workers
get only half rations an wages.
10. The Chinese Communist Government intends to infiltrate agents without Indian
visas and disguised as merchants into Gilgit in orr7er to obtain military and
other information In that area.
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I/ -"comment. Mere in believed to be no railroad between ft=ghat and
Qi2al Ytibat The word
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2/ Comment ? This may refer to the Shingan valley.
if Comment. This sentence may mean that the Goverment; of India
has closed the route to Sinkiang from Ladakh.
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25X1 A 4/ .22M-Ont. Possibly Andizhan (72--~20; 40-45).
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between the steel . j y ``UU
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imparts and the arms factory,
Was received an "nntn hu t _ 'I., ;g- _& _..L--
division in the Soch'o Khotan area, this-office believesrthat "nisi
almost certainly meant,
Comrnt, mentions the possibility of a M+hammodan
uprising in Sinkiang in January or Fetuuary 1951.
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