NORTH KOREAN AND CHINESE COMMUNIST ORDER OF BATTLE, SEVERAL AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300160001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SEcz 25X1
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INFO AT9 REPORT
Korea/China
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22 garch 1951
North Korean and Chinese Communist Order of
Battle,, Several Areas
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Communist Forces;
11 The 6 Task Force (sic), 3 Field Army, arrived from Manchuria late in
February,,
2. The 9 Task Force (sic), 3 Field Army, was in the former Yongsaeng
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The 53 (ic) Army was in the vicinity of the Yonp~o (127-32, 39-48)
airstrip? The troops were dug in on the hillsides Sane houses in the
area were used as billets.
Eight thousand troops were billeted is the priavinc;iAll government building
in Chongjin.
5. The 1 Field Army (known as a special task force) was in the former
Japanese railway workers billet area at Nanam (129.11 41-43) with 9OQCo
poorly equipped troops, There are many air-raid shelters in this .area,
6, Two divisions were at Munch 'on (3.2717, 39-17) en route to the vicinity
of Pyongyang,, They were reported to be replacements for the 4 Field
Army in Munch n on.
One division was in the Munpayong (127-21, 39-14) area, moving south
to the rionsan and Anbyon areas. The unit was reported to be a part of
the North Korean 7 (sic) Corps.
8o The Chinese Communist 3 Mechanized Ara W (sic) (not a part of the 3 Field
Army) arrived at Hungnam from Chongjin in mid February and still was at
Hungnam, with headquarters at Nokuchi (sic) In the former residences of
the president of the chemical coAp? a The army was equipped with 16
any. Soviet self-propelled guns, 20 to 30 T,34 tanks, and 1110 Zia Soviet trucks.
The units included the 57 and 91 Mechardzed Corps.,* poorly equipped, with
Japanese 38, 99, and U S. M-1 rifles; the 80 Cavalry Corps; and ,,.r,e
infantry corps, Mechanized corps strength is seven to eight thousand men.
The cavalry corps is used for reconnaissance and numbers 59000 Manchurian-
born :Mongols on horses.
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The headquarters of the 127 (sic) Corps Was in the Chh*gjin
Girls High School. Five thousand men were attached to this unit; they
were billeted in the areas The commander was Major General CHOPNG Sun;m-taek,
a former officer in the Soviet army.
10, . Six thousand troops were reported dug in at (CV 751208).p in the orchard
in the vicinity of Ramhung0
III,, Ten thousand Chinese Communist and five thousand North Korean troops were
reported in the vicinity of Z'onsan to meet a UN invasion.
i20 The Chongjin radio was still in operation. The Chongjin mayor was reported
to be 309 San, a Soviet-trained Korean.
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Comment, - reported a mechanized corps in June :1950
25X1 A i headquarters in Manchuria.
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