CHINESE COMMUNIST TRAINING CENTERS IN PEIPING AND YUNNAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300360010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/08/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R009300360010-6
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INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY China DATE DISTR. 15 Nov.. 1951
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Training Centers in
Peiping and Yunnan
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1. The Chinese Communist training center at Palichuang(.11 '. ,) in the astern
outskirts of Peiping is officially known as the Kuo Fang Cheng Chih Kan Pu
Hsun Lien 'l`oan (J Pj & ZA vPj 1,~ (#I), National Defense Political
Cadre Training Unit. To conceal the nature of its activities, howcver, it is
public ally known as the New China News Agency Correspondents Training Center.
The director is LI Wei-han, director of the United Front Department of thel
Party; the deputy he ads are SHU Tung ( 3 kij) and CHI Yen- .ng ( , ' ) ?
SHU is actually in charge of all academic activities at this center. He was
formerly in charge of propaganda activities of the East China Bureau, chief of
the Political Affairs Department of the East China Military Region Command and
head of the East China People's Revolutionary University. Hsieh-mi-no--fu
(Zheminov?), a Soviet and long--timae resident of J,-aEn and China and MATSUM0TO
('61 *1 ), a Japanese, are advisers to the staff. The curriculum at this
center includes courses in propaganda, organizing and training Communists,
methods and principles of intelligence collection, ways of inducing enemies to
defect, sabotage techniques, and foreign languages. The center is still pub--
lieally recruiting trainees., ostensibly for training reporters.
2. A Chinese Communist military and political training center for Communist workers
is at Fobai(100--26,y 21-58). The head of this center is CHOU KVei-fu(a~ iL& )s
who is also magistrate of Fohai Hsien; the deputy head is LU Yen--sheng(
commander of LLochiang (101-I1, 23-26) Hsien. At this center each training period
lasts four months. By early October five periods had been completed, each with
from 70 to 80 trainees. The'trainees consist of unemployed young men and-low-
ranking government employees; some graduates of this center have been assigned as
workers in local militia units or to local tax collection organizations, and the
rest as junior officers to regular Chinese Communist Army units stationed o15X1
the Yunnan-Burma border area.
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