DUPLICATION OF UNIT DESIGNATIONS, CHINESE COMMUNIST ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900350001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00790035
INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY China/Korea
SUBJECT Duplication of Unit Designations,
Chinese Communist Army
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 3 Au,,-J 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The Chinese Communists are committed to sending 1,000,000 more troops to
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losses in Korea, most will come from the regular field armies. Their
method of choosing from the regular armies is to take one or two divisions
from one army and one or two from another army until they have three divi-
sions to form an army. However, these divisions still keep their old unit
designations. For example, the 107 and 108 Divisions were taken from the
36 Army and the 109 Division from the 37 Army to form one army, but they
still retained their original designations.l The vacancies in the old 36
Army will be filled locally and these two new divisions will also be 25X1A
designated the 107 and 108 Divisions. These duplicate unit titles are
distinguished by letters of the Russian alphabet placed before the title
2. If the now 36 Army in Korea should suffer a great loss in manpower, they
might come back to the China mainland to re-equip; in the meantime the other
36 Army would replace them in Korea, so as to confuse allied intelligence.
3.> The Chinese Communists have been employing this method of rotation in their
armed forces in Korea since March.
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1. 111 = Comment. It would appear from the rest of the report that
t e army ma a up of these divisions would be designated the 36 Army.
According to information available to this office, as of 6 June the
36 Army was at Suchow; the 37 Army was possibly in Korea, and part was
i hs document is hereby reg?aded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordince with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from t, e
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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