ORGANIZATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010600440008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Organization of the Revolutionary Military
Council ^
he. Central Staff Department
(1) People's Armed Forces Department (PAFD), which is concerned only
with matters involving local militia.
(2) Military Intelligence Department.
() Military Operations Department, which is concerned with war plans.
(.) Telecommunications Department, which has recently been considerably
expanded and may since have been transferred to the jurisdiction of
the Central Supply and Service Department.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Revolutionary Military Council (RMC) is organized as follvars:
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(3) Cultural Department-
(4) Propaganda Department.
(5) Political. Security Department.
(6) Various other Departments.
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concerned only with members of
(2) Youth Department, which is concerned only with
Meteorological Department.
Civil. Aviation Department.
Training Department.
various other Departments.
'h, The Central Political Department
(l.) Organization Department, which is
the Chinese Communist Party (CC?).
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CENTRAL INTEGLIGMCE AGFXCY
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a. Central Command of the Chinese Communist Army (CCA)
(1) The four Field Armies and the 20 Army Groupl.
(2) The Major Military Areas
(a) Northeast Military Area
(b) East China Military Area
(c) Northwest Military Area
(d) Southwest Military Area
(e) Central and South China Military Area
(f) East China Military Area
(3) The Specialized Commands
(a) Artillery Command
(b) Armored Forces Command
(a) Air Forces Command
(d) Others
d. The Central Supply and,Service Department and various subordinate
departments.
so The Central Cadres' Control Department and various subordinate departments,
which are concerned with all military cadres who are not CCP members nor
members of the CCP Youth organization.
f. The National Defense Study Group, which is composed of ex-Nationalist high.
ranking officers, like FU Tso?yi, and is of only minor significance.
2. The subordinate organs of the RMC, except the Central Command of the tp have
no direct connections with similar organs in other, or lower ranking,
administrative organizations. For example, the PAFD is corcerned with militia
matters, but the various Major Military Areas also have their own People's
Armed Force Departments, which are concerned with militia matters. However,
there is no direct communication between the two. All matters originating with
the PAFD of the RRMC are passed to the RMC itself, where they are reviewed by
MAO Tee-tung, who then passes them to the Central Command of the CCA which
forwards them down through the appropriate Major Military Area. All action
involving the Departments given in sections a, b, d, e, or f,'above, is taken
in the name of the RMC, after review and ratification by the INC itself. This
is the way in which MAO Tse-tung, as head of the State, controls the military
organization.
Comment. The above does not agree with available information
rom a er agenc as on the organization of the RMC.
Comment. Presumably this means the North China Army Group.
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