SOVIET -CONTROLLED MATERIAL SUPPLY BUREAU, KUNMING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500610012-1
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. As of September 1951 a Soviet-controlled Material Supply Bureau (Tij i," ($~ J')
which is not connected with the Chinese Communist Government,2 had been
established in Kunming. It is under the direct control of the Material
Supply Department in Peiping. It is in the former premises of the Yunnan
Provincial Tobacco & Wine Tax Bureau at Hsiyuan (iJ 4j) Road, .Kunming.
In charge is Yeh-se klo-fu (?Yezkov) and his deputy Is
rio-ssu-lino-fu ( r ~ ) (?Kezlinov). The staff is all Soviet
with the exception of four Chinese and two Vietnamese Communist interpreters.
2. This bureau is responsible for the distribution of Soviet supplies to
the Chinese or Vietnamese Communists. Allocations are made according to
recommendations out forward by the "Support Alien Investigation & Research
Commission", ( 10 :4 y ) :j '?a? ; t; /,` ) , During the months of
August and September, however, most of the supplies arriving from the USSR
were allocated to the Vietnamese Communists and only a small quantity was
given to the Chinese Communist troops in the border areas. These supplies
consisted largely of light and heavy weapons. Supplies for Indochina are
distributed by the bureau itself.
3. This bureau recently requisitioned, for use in Indochina, all pieces of a
new type of heavy artillery of the 2nd Independent Army Regiment of the 4th
Army Group.2 This regiment is stationed at Trdenshan (104-14,23-22), and is
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1. Comments the USSR had recently
decided to Increase assistance to the Vietnamese Communists, and to es-
tablish in Southwest Asia a Soviet military supervisory organization
to direct aid to the Vietnamese Communists. and Intensify Chinese Commu-
nist activities in Burma.
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2. Comment: If this report is true it may be an indication of
a Soviet decision to control directly Soviet-supplied equipment for the
Vietnamese Communists rather than leave the allocation in Chinese Commu-
nist hands.
Comte: From this report it would appear that this bureau is the
only organization in South China which deals with supplies of Soviet
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equipment. The Support Indochina People?s Liberation Commission in
Nanning, where Soviet officers are also employed, may be concerned only
with the movement of Chinese Communist forces and equipment into Indo-
china. However, it would seem unusual that the Soviets should bypass the
Chinese Communists and "requisition" Chinese Communist arms for Indochina.
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