1. STOCK PILES IN HONG KONG 2. REPORTED CLOSURE OF AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, HONG KONG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700780005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INT LIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. iiijiM yo
R 'FO MATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY china/ long Kong
DATE DISTR. 1G Jan. 1951
SUBJECT
1.
Stock Piles in (-long Kong
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Reported Closure of American
President Lines, Hong Kong
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1. Chinese Communist stook piles in Hong Kong, which total 270,000 tons, were
being shipped to the Chinese mainland by train and ship in early January
1951. They included 20,000 tons of metals, 160,000 tons of machinery,
20,000 cases (each weighing 60 patties) of dynamite; the remainder was
gasoline, truck tires, industrial chemicals, and pharmaceutioals. About
twenty fishing boats and junks were being chartered to carry these goods to
Canton.
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2. the Chinese
Communist government sent about twenty secret investigators to liong Kong to
check on local stock piles of materials which the Communists would seize in
the event of their invasion of the C..lony.
3. the American President Lines would soon suspend
operations in bong Kong. 25X1A
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFMENTIAL in accordance with the
;citor of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central intelligence to the
-rhvist of the United States.
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