BARTER OF RICE FOR MILITARY SUPPLIES, MACAO AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100520010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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PIFOf AT OJ REPORT OD NO.. 25X1A
Chin:' /..:acao/a?on ; tong DATE DISTR. 22 ..MAI 51
:_JBJECT Barter of Rice for i..ilitary
r,-lACE
ACQUIRED
Supplies, ,;acao area
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In early January 1,.))l the Chinese Communists sent 5,000 tons of rice to t.iacao
for shipment to Pr, ir, Kong. YAI:G ':uo yun (4,; fay, r ) of the Ho Chun (~ ; )
Company in Cantor was responsible for the shipping. YANG is head of the
Chinese Conaunie Transportation Section in Chungshan and was the first
person in Chung, Ilan to become rich through handling shipments for the
Communists. J . 3 January he transported 4,800 bags of rice to Macao, making
delivery at f'o Tai Ping +'arehouse.' The Nan iiuang Trading Company* handled
the transpcr Ition from there, loading the rice on the SS TE IiSING (~ ~)
for iiong Un 9 January 1,500 bags of rice were loaded on three barges
which were owed to Number 5 Wharf, Aaoao, and unloaded at the Tai Ping
Na rehouse.
On the ni. it of 16 January 1951, 12 t.ar.ges towed by a motorboat transported
4,000 bu: of rice from Chungshan to i4acao, where the rice was stored in
Public ';rehouses 5 ana 6.
3. On 19 1 iuary 1951 the SS CLUN USING (J 1) arrived in ,iacao towing 14
boats .aced with 700,000 catties of rice. According to YAJG Shih-cheng**
this r'1,e was to be turned over to :ur. FU (jq ) of the xuan Auang Company,
to be xchaxig;ed for gasoline and machinery. On the same day at Dumber 32
Yihar large 4uaritities of machinery, 300 boxes of medicines, and 1,640
d.rur! of gasoline were loaded boats which were probably to be towed back to
Can -1 by the CI;UN I.SILG on.21 January. Une hundred tires (34 x 7 and
32 A 6), and 100 automobile engines were also being loaded on 20 January.,
it ,),ding to YAW S}.ih-ol.er_g, 900,000 piculs (sic) of rice, loaded on seven
t:.?ge boats, was due to arrive
in
Cl ungshan
on
21
January 1951. After
:..stows and other clearances,
,e-change for war materials.***
this
rice was
to
be
shipped to Eong Kong,
in
5, On 26 January 1951 nine boat loads of rice, totaling more than 1,700,000
catties, arrived at Ch1ienshan (113-32, 22-14) from Canton. This rice was
turned over to I..! C, To (j?'~j ' ~ ) of the i'an :.uang Trading Company in-exchange
for gasoline, tires and other items.
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Archivist of the United States.
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Comment. This firm has been active in Chinese Communist
>urchasing activities in .,:acao; 25X1A 25X1A
Comment. Ids name was erroneous) reported as
MAN
Sh:i"h-chic in 25X1A
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Continent. This tnz*y be the shipment which reached pia csao on
22 January,
e involving 1.400,000 cattier of
:.ice. The amount of rice reported hare- 90,000,000 cattier, is
:-,bsurdly high.
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