CHINESE COMMUNIST INTENTIONS TOWARD INDOCHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010200350010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Chi,/Indochina
25X1
SUBJECT Chinese Comrmanist Intentions Toward Indochina
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Y. CABLE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFINES
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE HEARING OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMEIIDED- ITS TRANSR1B810R OR REVIL-
AT1ON OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT I1< AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED DT LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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(lfl NOT rInr1II ATC
1. there was no indication of Chinese Communist
preparation for Intervention in Tonkin, nor were there any signs of the presence
of Chinese volunteers with forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRY).
A Chinese proposal to intervene was categorically rejected by the DRY, because
the latter felt confident that the situation in Tonkin was developing in their
favor and they preferred to keep the issue a domestic one.l
2. Of Chinese Communist troop concentrations on the China Tonkin border, the most
important was in this lion Cay area. That' were placed there to prevent the
utilization of French border garrisons as reinforcements against a coming DRY
attack in the Rest River Delta.
Presumably the most important in terms of Chinese
OOMMISS IN erven on in Indoch
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