CHINESE COMMUNIST CONSIDERATION OF OPENING A SECOND FRONT IN INDOCHINA
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CIA-RDP82-00457R009400350003-1
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RIPPUB
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C
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 21, 2016
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June 25, 2008
Sequence Number:
3
Case Number:
Publication Date:
November 19, 1951
Content Type:
REPORT
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COUNTRY China/Indochina/Korea
SUBJECT
CD NO.
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DATE DISTR. 19 November 1951
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As of mid-October 1951 LIN Piao and CH' FN Keng were disagreeing as to the
best ways to deploy Chinese Communist troops. LIN favored sending the
best troops of all the field armies to Korea in an attempt to end the war
as soon as oossible. CHsEN favored sending more regular army troops to
South China, especially to the Indochina border area of Kwangtung and
Kwangsi, and discontinuing the transfer of regular troops from South
China to other areas. CH' N3 contended that if the war spreads, the Ch nesc
Communists should br: )repared to omen a second front against the French
in Indochina in cooperation with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,.
Chinese Communist military authorities in Peiping were beginning to sup--
,)ort CH' EN r s views; as a result T1;NO Hua and troops selected by TF.NG were
being transferred to south China from Korea.l
?NO left Pe
iping on 29 October for Nanning.
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