JAPANESE IN THE CHINESE COMMUNIST ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900380007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Japanese in the C p.iso Communist Army
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1. A Japanese soldier f;e IfJanpojin? North Korea, in early Decembee 1950 :ltated that,
he was a member of fte,37 Divisions 4. Field hew (sio),* te Ile had been
assigned earlier (let an endeternined date). Ho had been in the areel 2or leer
years. Ris unit*** feld Arched to the border of Inc:ochina and thence to Eankew.,
where it was stationed !or a while in September 1950 iLed beon ::,reneferred
from Hankow to Korea,
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2. Soldiers of the diviziep**** were given lectures each day on ehe world situatfLon,,
Aside from the lectirese they received no other information en world affaiee.
The gist of these lel-Awes as of December 3.950 was az followe
a. The Chinese Coneeniet 2 Field Arne*** had landed in the eaeau and i.kikpf.,
areas and most e South Korea with the exception of the Seoul area had been
"liberated*.
b. General IlacArtle:' had ben deaoted to chief of civil a-
ft** failure in eeereing on the Korean war puceasefully
the Japanese. !le etery was also reported on postere
0. The Japanese be5 04 .yen in Shikoku and Kyushu, ausing
American, force: from Japan (sic).
dninietretien in ,:upan
and in controlling
in ileeth Bereee,
the withdrawal of
NOost of the JapaneeJ treeps in the Chinese Comnumiet armies hinro not baQrac.
Communists.. Their fep4egs and desire to return home are illustrated by the
following song, elleh ir being sung by these Japaneset
*Getting dark iedae# too,
Clu a hill of e sfeenge country.
Comrades, you chuld be pained;
You Should bc brit.
Wait patiently? .
After the stem- easses?
We may have a eye, going back home
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Spring may be 1:ok
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(EC back home)
This song was said to have originated in a Soviet prisoncr-tr.
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25X1X The.37 Divisions 13 Army, is nonina / pert of tie 2 Fluid A2-v
rathar thin the 4Fie1d amly. The 13 Ar4y istKL2.1 beinL) k_treLd tho angsi.Iidochin. border area. Possibly individual soldiu*:0 Zro-
ielon wore sent to tCorea to join troops of thc 4 Field g. Sec
MC?L,...z_rinet. That is, presumably the Mines? ConnuniC,
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stated.
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The,word "'division', used here presunably refers to 37 Div-
s on troops in Korla. The fact that these troops in 1:orua ,,:ere being given
information on the 2 Field Army suggestAhat they had aot cn7oorganftzed at
the time they entered Korea.
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