1. INCREASE IN SOVIET BORDER GUARD 2. ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN SINKIANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800090011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Inereace in Soviet Border Guard '
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f'.ctivities in Southvicater;` Si.nkia
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Ia In July labor on the road -'room. i ash a:v (7 '-'`3, 39- 29) to Tibet was
being pushed f'orwar. d:, It away x'eaz;ort ed:l that the airfield in Ti.betl
was rear ' for useo
2, In August every civilian in K~ shgar was ordered to take five days of
military training for emorgen;.;y purpo. es. `,ili.tary personnel and
police were conducting, searci?!:e,s of tho housoa of the civilian population
in order to assess the amount of property posse ,.;eat- by the owners.
Farmers were told not to ?harv? .t their crops until the police had
come to make an assessments
During the month of July 50 cataelwloachi of? ammunition reached Ptuli
(75-1h 37-47). Near ?Ptuli, o,n the. raaad to the USSR via 5;;:.ta ;an
i3ul.lah2 anew Military Pont, 1,-a~?Ic enough for a }arrinon of 300 raen,
was under construction.'
Li., The population in the border area had been pleajed, by being allowed
to build Janat Khanae3,, and b the d stribu.ti.on cif see is and cloth,,
which was made; for purposes of' propaganda..
'1 boundary marker which, had b