1. SUPPLYING OF SOVIET EQUIPMENT TO CHINESE COMMUNISTS 2. COERCION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS, KOREA 3. MOVEMENT OF CHINESE WOUNDED AND TROOPS SOUTH FROM KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900150002-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China f i7S R/Kor oa
SUBJECT 1. Supplying of Soviet Lquipanont to Chinese
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1. In early May Soviet Lieutenant General T r o-ni.-fu 4 L . )1 notified the
Chiaege Corm ist Central Government authorities that, beginning 15 tray,
all wgappons and equipment for the Chinese Comrmuiists from the UfSR were to
be sup~.)lied directly from Soviet arsenals in Siberia. He also requested
that the Chinese Comunists attempt to make appropriate change in the supply
setup to effect better coordination and thus insure more efficient and
rapid distribution to Chinese Communist troops.
2. In each o uparay of Chinese Comaunist troops in Korea is a "political workers
supervisory unit" composed of one political worker and five soldiers with
the mission of directing the fi htirg. All orders issuod by this unit must
be obr3yed by all members of the company including the company co.-^^zirander.
Chinese C ct troops were being forced to advance day and night even
under.heavy United =ations artillery barrages and air bombings. They were
warned by political workers of tho supervisory unit that if they fall
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behind they will be killed irunediately.
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nand to military and large privately owned hospitals in Hunan, 11upeh,
flangsi and K gtung for medical treatrx t.
On 24 UV. 700 Chinese Ccmnnunist troops wounded in Korea arrived at North
itatlroad, Otatlou, Shanghai, and were Iraediately sent to an army hospital in
the S ai suburbs. Approximately 1,000 representatives of Chinese
0oUEUUZI organizations in Shanghai assembled near the railroad station to
welace these tr ops but were prevented by Chinese Com mist authorities
from approaohingO them. - LU I 'f`?. sV ), secretary of the Shanghai Resist
America end Aid Korea Camitteo, addressed representatives and thanked them
on behalf of the soldiers for having come to meet them.
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men Island.
In late LW all available flat and freight oars in Canton were being sent
north to. Wuchaaog to bring back divisions of the 4 Field Army from Korea to
In late may the Chinese Comunists wore planning to bring about two arnies
of the 41 Field Army during the rainy season for garrison duty in Kwanetung
and other units to Fukien, apparently for another attcpt to reduce Chin..
and Fukien, and also to bring wounded to hospitals south of the
Yangtze River. Many oars were scheduled to leave for the north by 2 June.
8. In late Bay replacements for the wounded and troops transferred south were
being taken from raw recruits from iiwangtung and other provinces.
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2. ::]Co= nt., If these troops have no connection with the information
in the pre ous sentence, presumably they are destined for Korea.
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In early May the Chinese Comaunist 39, 40 and 42 Armies were being transferred
from na 'to Central China for reorganization because of heavy oasualtios
in the war. On 22 Jay, 30,0O0 troops arrived in Iiankaow,S
4. Between 20 April and 20 May, 26,000 Chinese Coist officers and men with
minor wounds received in Korea arrived in Hankotiir from Manchuria. They were
being sent by the health office of the ` Central and South iIilitary Area Ccaci-
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