CHINESE COMMUNIST DISSEMINATION OF OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000070005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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lc. The four ways by which the .Chinese Comr:lunists convey goverment orders to the
people are public _notices raeetings? politicalcla SS fcl S and propaganda. 'Jiro:less
.and courier 'services between government offices are used to transmit these orders
fron higher to lower levels before they are published,,
2. Forms Used for official- correspondence are referred to by the standard terms:
. order directive- GilJ )p instruction ), substitute telegraM
).1i;- report ( 7;g? ) and notification 4, 7orm.is unimportant and
connunications between. offices do not .necessarily need the sirnature of the person
in.eharge nor the official seal of the. originating office. Often they are merely
aigned and chopped :/ith the personal seal of the person handling the case. - He mv
write -en -pry kind of paper and. use .any wording provided, his meaning is clear,.
Thele tritten documents are officiaL and have the sato force as if printedr, The
fladbility Of the **sten makes for speed and simplicity.
3 . Pub: At notices, posted. freely on walls and notice-boards, cover subjects too
.detailed to be raemorized at one hearing,, They are of traditional' form and
style
The Conmunists have maw,- meetings, ostensibly for the. purpose (7S operating the
flacItinery of democracy and training leaders. The mecitings also afford a means of
giv:Lng out orders,e,..:plaining them, and mak :..ng them binding on t,he public quickly-,?
An ;tesciribly of provincial representatives is held, ?under etpert Communist chairma:.-
shi:o, and after carefully-managed discussion, certain resolutions are passed, hm
the participants return ?hon a they preside over local meetings and direct the
disustion so .that the same resolutions, are passed again,. This process continues
to the lower levels, where the resolutions. are passed by the street governments,,
womf-md !;:: unions, students a unions, and peasants unions. Thus- government 'orders
are not only publicized, but .they are presented in such a way that everyone seems
to I-lave voted for them.
5a Political classes for Party members. and followers are -usually weekly discussion
grows on current events, Attending. a -political class is little different from
.listening to Orders at indoctrination courses, but the Communists make the c3.asse7::
veluntary.and demooratic,,, The classes, held in .spare time or on public holi-
day usually last several hours. Holding these classes is. considered very impor-
tant. iL newly liberated areas and: with new ;executive leaders, but has become a
foraality in .old, liberated areas and With old executive leaders.
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The Cormunists use ever,v- possible weans of propaganda. Two publications,
tort of the American Invasion of China" and its coaidon volume "Pictorial
ant ory of the American Invasion of China", divide Auerican arf..retion against
Chira i:ato three periods. These are frouthe Opium ;%ars to 19370 'dam Anerica
heir ed 13tiler isiporialist POUCX'S to invade China; f`r(?: 1.737-1945, '.then America
co4etel with other itperializt powers in invaang China; and froll 1945 to the
pretont? t:hon 1......erica has herself invaded China.
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