POSSIBLE CHINESE COMMUNIST INVASION OF KENGTUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300560008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
. IF R M AT I N REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Burma./China
SUBJECT Possible Chinese Corni.st Invasion of Kengtung
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DATE DISTR0 15 August 1.951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THE FDlLOWINS REPORT WAS ?REVICUSLI
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1. Chinese Co"u_r_ists are nnianning to invade Kengtung District, Burma.
2. Six thousand troops of the Chinese Co?run st 39 Division'- are assembled
at Ch l e1i (100-50; 2-1-58). Fohai (100-26; 21-58), and Nanchiao (100-17;
22-00). Members of this division claim that the Communist plan is to
invade southeast Asia via Burma,.
3. I o thousand Chinese Co-nmist troops at V"angshih (98--35; 24-25) are to
advance south along t?e Burr,-Yunnan border.
4. Fifteen thousand Chinese Cornunists2 are concentrated in the Vbng M -
Veng Lien areas. Six hundred r1en are to attack ". ong Yang (99-42; 21-50)
and Mon We (99-37; 21-39). One thousand are to attack Pang Yang
(98-49; 22--0.8), 30C will attack Hong Pu (9P,45; 20-55), and 600 will
Tiarch toward rengP,ung (99-36; 21-17). The plan calls for a combined
attack br Chinese and Burmese Communists.
5. Six hundred Government of Burma Gurkha troops ?r ve been flown: from Rangoon
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to Kengtung.3
1. Cor~rent. This division was reported along the Kunming
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Lao'ray railroad in J
2. Co, ,rent. nt. The figure of 15,000 r, y be excessive. Perhaps
8,000 to 10,000 would be more accurate.
3. Cartrent. Burmese formations in or near Kengtung are
believed to consist of 1 and 3 K c}tin Battsli,r_s only.
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