1. PLANS OF TIBETAN GOVERNMENT 2. CHINESE COMMUNIST STRENGTH IN TIBET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300510002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R008300510002-6
CLASSIFICATION
INIELLOFAX 1
25X1 A
25X1A
COUNTRY Tibet/China
RE ORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COI+7FIj).ENTIAZ1 DATE UISTR, 14 Aug. 195
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Chinese Coaaa xr_i.st Strongth in Tibe
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Resident of 'a 1iro.p ,ag clone to Tibetan official o-Aroles from.
i'ar?ap;rxaphs 1, Ragwashr r Shape, Tibetan ~"inister of ',Var..
s'asi rap:~a ;"a re1 1-.th creed Tibetan in Ka limpong.
'JLUiWtN6 REPORT WAS PREVIOUSLY
Ia tR18UTE0 AS "CIA PRELIMINARY.
^ISSEMIN41ION. NUMBERED 25X1A
The present pl:.na of` the Goaerm:ont of Tibet is to r opera in Lhasa the
di.sc}:assic:x.u of the :limo- ::ibetran treaty,, on. the conadit3.or that the Chinese
Ccsrrnuxai.st troors r,+-aaaa:in in r~ttama They intend to refuse the Ghinese request
to seam, troop:3 i.at y 'aibet, includ.in. 4O;OOO to 45,000 which were to be sent
to the 1 nd:ira a `3orcfe and aril I send the Dalai Lama out of Mot :af t a
(;::incase insi3t on 1a1a?'l point A 'he Tibetans believe that their only hope
lies in sa po1i. of delay end playing for time until a world gear or a ma aor
conflict betua c. t1h,) !United States a ad Corx,aunist { ii na develops. They have
flositfatod to a end tae Dalai Lai= to India for fear that the Indiana Govern-
ment would turn him over to the Chinese, The Tibetans area convinced that the
'h iese has=.e i^suf"".1ci nt military strength in either eastern or western
Tibet to force the issues tit the present moment.
Chinese Cozu:;axua1s'. troops in we :tern Tibet have but one rifle and five rounds
:~f' a ~[sati x iti xxx T'cr every- three soldiers. In eastern Tibet, the Chinese f crces.
in G')a' y ngti3. ?+raan ) s pro-vrioau ly reported as numbering 30,,000? have been
r?edu send. to Jad, promised rap 7a cemen.ts have not arrived,
111thou;sa it ha: sea a reported that there ware .1,,000 Chinese Communist troopa
in ive ,tern ` Ib? -;, -s;,:ie aotuai nurnb3sr is brut 500, and these are Poorly
ealuippeth Araotaher ;roux of 00 are in eastern liheat, hoar Assam, a days
3narch from the .,hu:ran border.
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