ORGANIZATION AND SCOPE OF PROGRAM OF ELIMINATION OF NON-COMMUNISTS IN CHINA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
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SUBJECT Organ- Ation and Scope of Program of Elimination
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DATE DISTR.
15 Feb. 19,151
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Th!S IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
~.. The c rent program ap sarently for the elimination of alp.. per, - s in China
who miC` t be anti-Communist was organized by VAID Shen?;p an 1 ' ? time member'
of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Shantung Government.
His programs Ionovm as the K'Airs Sheng plane wa accepted by the Chinese
Communist Supreme Command.- on 5 December 1950, The month before,, VATIG is
quoted tc have said before a moeting of the Politburo, 41I?i s plain that the
reactionaries within and outside the Party whose minds are r..ak will oppose
the policy of the Party. Out Party will need to wArergc a -thorough eradication
operation in order to oppress thcce reactionaries and thereby assure ourselves
of victory in Korea anc' maintain a revolutionary or z r on the home front.
To be lenient with our enemies is an act of suicide and it is the true
mission to the Revolution to do away with all opposition-"
2. The IC01.IiG Shong plan called for t ho registration of all ,cups who might be
suspected of being antiCCanmtrd.st0 This regi3tiatiOn rra:i completed late in
December 1950. According to I'?AI,G there are 208000,000 reactionaries thrroughout
t;~ nation. Officials of the Chinese Communist Government are boasting that
cri', in the next several mont . they will be liquidated and revolutionary order
wit pave been established it ~;hina0
3. About - Tanuary 1951 wholesal , iassacre began in all parts of Chinn.9 and by
I Febrr,,.ry taro million people had been arrested and about, one million had been
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Comrnent0 FANG SCI Ong is a member of the Chinese Politburo and of
e ovo mart Council as well as Chairman of the shantung; Gaverrament?
He is & native of Shantunl, , but, studied in Mo.-.caw from early c hildhood
and is a graduate of the Soviet LIVD school. He has al:rays been in
charge of special operatio: s vrithin' the CCP. His position is such that
he can gave orders to LO :Tt:i?=ch .9 Minister of Public Security.
4,omnent0 The toxin Ca nmur_ist Supreme Command might indicate
either ? e Chinese Communist Army Headquarters or the flevoluticnary
Tl?.litary Council, of the Chinese: Communis' Governments or it is pore
probably intended to mean the Chinese Po1itburo0
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killed in all parts of China.
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Comiant. Although there have been a number of reports of
mass awes smelling in the last months9 it sees hardly possible
to state that a total of two million have been arrested and one million
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PAID aheng gent to Moscow for the first time for sax yeas gixning
in 19329 when he tress' about 3.3 years of age. If this is the case he
would have studied in the CGPU school.
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