ARRESTS, EXECUTIONS, AND OTHER CHINESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300580019-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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ONFORNIATICW REPORT
Arrests? Execu-Aons? and lther Chinese
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Fru early April to late July about 120,000 persons in Szechuan, 70000 in
Yunnan, and 50?000 in Ftweichow were arrsted as counter-revolutionariev.
About 50,000 of these were exe?Arted, am l the remainder are being sent to
concentration camps to do hard labor.1 The orders for this labor were issued
byi G Ilsiao7-pling secretary of the Southwest Bureau and Deputy Chairman
of the Southwest r.liiitary Area, to prov:I.nelal authorities,'
From idar to 10 June about 100 former i'ationalist Government employees
vier? nxecnted by the Chinese Corriainists in the fleihsien (116-13, 24-111) area,.
From 1-10 June 132 anti-Comunist suspects were arrested by the Public
8ocurity office. at By mid-June 31 of these had been executed,,
. in late June e.7.ecutions of counter-revolutionaries in Tsingtao were taking
pixie's daily Yn the }Liddle of June guerrillas from the Laoshan (120-393, 36-a2)
area, most of Alm were former Shantung ThAversity students, attacked Comuunist
troops in ilsif zchen near Taintao
The fc.,11o%-d.n, is the text of "L'irtiergency Directive Number 82" issued by the
t,ecretar:/ and. liaison office o2 the 501.0:,11 China Sub-Bureau on lit Jur
"Comrades, workers in tie ensAy area, and underground workers; Central
authorities are now considering the temporary suspension of our work
toward the d:isposition of counter-revolutioneries,, It has been decided
to call an immediate halt to our activites with those of the villages,,
However, in addition to our work in the .cities? we are requested to be
alert aga,inst evil elanents, bandits,. and Uationalist agents amid the land
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reform weck, so as to stabilize llage peaee and order an0 augment the
source of fighting men. This veil set an example for the suppression of
.counter-retvolutionaries? mhich calpain rill immediately be placed under
the care of the farmers assooleiees. re shall first meet foreign
aggression and then domestic pro;e',..eme. All comrades are requested to
follow this directive and move on. TI :y must promote vigilance against a
? major war."
6. From early June to early July JV Cfliang-feng NI), representative
of the United Front Department of the South China Sub-Bureau and CHUG ten
(4,1e 1r, )2 Chairman of the Kwangtung branch of the southern headquarters
of the China Democratic League/ thozeected the South China area, including
Canton, Nanning, Liuchou, and Kweilin. They plan to inspect Hunan, Kiangsi?
and Fukien. At every place visited concerences have been called at which
the following instructions have been issued:
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The Party organization must be improved in the area. Ideological reforms
are to be carried out; leaaersuip strengthened; the Parte unified; study
intensified. Leaders must eet e;.ose to the masses; propaganda is to be
expanded. Land reform is to be effected. The anti-American? aid Korea
campaign must be pushed. All mret strive for basic improvements in the
country's financial and ?concede condition. Party members were advised
to use the names of the China De ocratic League, the Revolutionary Committee
of the Kuomintang, the China Areociation for the Promotion of Democracy,
and the China Peasants' and Yr :ers' Deeoeratic Party to expand the
influence of the Communist Per,,e in order to overcome preseat difficulties.
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