CONDITIONS IN DAIREN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900960007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL Ir1ELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NOF
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Conditions in Dairen
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there were about 20 Liberty ships in Dairen.,
including e There were also
4 Soviet Liberty ships and one 10,000 ton tanker in dry dock, No naval
craft were observed.,
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20 Work goes on twenty-four hours a day, Innumerable welding torches are going during
day and night and the stacks of _the factories: in the area are always smoking,
30 There were approximately 1-00 steel landing craft on the docks. They were about
85 feet in length, 15 feet in width amidships, and 10 to 12 feet from deck to
bottom. There were also 25 small tugs approximately 50 feet long. These craft
were loaded on the decks of Soviet ships, with four barges forward acid four
barges and one tug aft (sic). All were set in cradles.
4, The Chinese labor force on the docks behave like zombies. They are supervised
by a civilian and watched from the top of a warehouse by a uniformed female
Soviet guard. The labor force has no contact with ship personnel. According
to sourceq there were Chinese-speaking negroes among the labor forcer
5. One of the ships in port unloaded bundles the size of rubber bales wrapped in
rice matting. This cargo did not require careful handling. There were also
about six thousand new,, empty 50-gallon oil drums on a wharf. They were loaded
on flat cars in two layers of 72 drums each. The train had an armored car
with a gun turret mounting two guns in the middle of the car. The turret
resembled the tail- tutu: of a ..Lancaster bombez'.
6. All departures of Soviet ships were at night.
7. The sounds of artillery practice beyond the hills north of town and of machine
gun practice closer to town were audible from Dairen.
8,, Some time between 19 May and 3 June two planes circled the harbor and flew off
to the west-northwest. They were twin engine planes similar to the British
Mosquito, with white star markings and light and dark green camou41age.
9. There were many antitank guns mounted on four-wheel carriage/ate--drawn by
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10. There were many Soviet military personnel in town, including sailors and
women in uniform The uniformed Soviets wore no regimental insignia? There
were also soldiers in Chinese khaki army uniffrms with a red star containing
a symbol which was not the hammer and sickle s. These men did not speak Chinese.
There an eared to be few Chinese in town aside from the labor force,
:I19 There was very little amusement in town aside from two beer bars run by the
governmento The lights in town and in the port appeared to be turned on by
a master switch at sundowna There were no street lights. Violators of the
strict seven oeclock curfew were shots
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Commento Source believes that the Soviet Liberty ships in dry dock were
being refitted to carry oil,
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Comment. This might refer to the Chinese characters for 6-1,.
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