PREPARATIONS FOR EXCHANGE OF UNITED NATIONS PRISONERS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900190003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 4, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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SUBJECT Preparations for Fxchange of United Nations NO. OF PAGES
Prisoners in Central and South China.
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1. Chinese Communist authorities ordered all United Nations prisoners of war
in Central and South China sent to Hankow prior to 23 December 1951 for
subsequent transfer to the Northeast to await exchange.
2. On 13 November, 105 Republic of Korea prisoners of war were transferred to
the Northeast via the Hankow-Canton railway. On 18 December, 13 American
and 8 British prisoners of war who were formerly in a building at 52 Fu Hsing
Road,l Shameen were transferred by rail to Hankow. The Americans and British
were escorted to Hankow by a company of Public Security troops under the
command of LI Kuo-liang ( 114 R ).
stated that US prisoners were performing hard labor on airfields in
Comment.
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referred to American prisoners of war
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as of early November 1951 there were no prisoners o war
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