CHINESE COMMUNIST TRAVEL CONTROLS, SHANGHAI-HONG KONG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010800220007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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tho. spi-ing of 1951 the travel. 'permit of a person, going from Shanghai
ta Gaaten by train was not (thecked,. but a person who walked about on the
tzain was apt T?o be opestionod aboat his lonooping. " Orri'Val ? iprho
?tsgis?tered a hotel in Canton was asked to show his travel, o,-irmit before being
e 3 nor .;ed to his room.. i lerk accompanied html to his ram,, coll.eeted his
trave:L permit there, and?r?,r,le-te-pod him in bpi book,. the returned the
pe rat took the travoller's finpflx nrtkstri, an0 ?),bt-ained a i'd ographic,a1 tato-
nieit hIsi. The fc..frtD taed ia ten Inches lon. and threo inches wide.,
ani uns folded horizontally gir='0 the ?nx?-oyidirT aspac-A?, five inches
by th.o.:e inches on escn side e thecL One half was used for biographlen."
data i the other 'calif for fir-r,7-int _,,nforrAa1.on,, On this second half
there were ten horizontal lines arid a 'irra:&:'' cal 1.7;rxe to the right forming
,.-loltann ji whiclz aierk recorded data. rc-IF7a?r?r3:_ng the traveller ,s fingerc
by inserting crosses and cl'.1.1-dles.,.t linaraic ofY,be form was as follows
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ThP fora was nrepared In dardlcatql.Tho cilzk ttok tha completed form and
ulthin several hours xsturnoi cno cro.,7 showtng a police chcp, This copy
ceived as a temoorary xesidence .2ertif:f(ate,
an OriEntoi travel-lex from ConteJ r.hr-T?619unn (1110-08. 22-32) was no, re-'
qujmed to show his travel prillt thf, tiho parchased n ticket for
3htnch'uon, bat ho mlght be sukjectne ca sot cneck bv plotn-clothes rsil-
TTa.y wo,A,:,ers, customs enpAoyes, 0,7 the ;:errof.ty police at the railroad station
',Asa ho was leaving. The check night he merely- a routine check of his travel
permit or it night includo a check of his twirqogs. A westorner was chocke.d
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upon boarding the train, on the train, and upon leaving the traiu. The cheek
eaqueeed the showing of his travel permit in eaeh instance and inzieded ih-
soeceeon of his luggage upon entering and leaving the train.
3, At Shenchhian it was necessary to obtain another travel permit to leave the
eaunery,hy applying to the local police. However, the Shenchhean police liquid
net eesue an exit permit to a non-resident of Shenchtuan unless he had an
exit -permit from his place of departure. The police. examined the original
exit permit and questioned the traveller concerning the date and place where
the permit was issued, whether the photograph Was the original photograph,
ad forth.. After this the traveller was rewired to fill in biographical
data on two forms and to supply two photographs of himself. After receiving
tie eompleted forms and photographs, the police made out an exit permit with
ae.official seal and gave it to the traveller. The whole proceedings required
ahout thirty minutes.,
4, la Sheneh9uan it was also possible for a person without a British permit for
eitry into Kowloon to make arrangements for illegal entry. in example of
hew the security controls work and of how illegal entry to the Now Territoe
ries, may be accomolished is illustrated below. In one each instance, a. person
teavelling from Shanghai to Hong Kong was asked while registering at a hotel
. in Shenchquan if he planned to go to Hong Kong, and if he had 6. British permit
te erter British territory. When he replied that he did plan to go to Tiong
Keng but had no permit,? he was told he could he taken Across the border for
a price. The price agreed upon was HKS500. He was told that if any Chinese
autheritiee asked him about an entry permit from the British government, he
was to say he did not have one but he had friends waiting in Levu who would
take him across the border. If asked whether his friends were from the Yellow
the name of the smuggling group arranging his passage across the border --
he was told to say they were not. He was told to wait at Les hotel lintel
tame for the next train from Lowe to Kowloon, Just before train time he was
told to go through the customs.
A. tl.e station, his travel permits were shown to the customs and the custom
officials checked his baggage thoroughly. They listed the amount of jewelry
and ether valuables he possessed on back of his exit permit as authority
for lim to bring these items back into the country tax-free, He was permit-
ted to take only one ounce of gold and HKAO out of the country. Jen min
plat were changed at a branch of the Bane of China for Hoeg Kong currency,
Mos Jen min p4iao valued at over HKUO was "contributed" to the Chinese
"volunteers" for the purchase of planes and other military equipment. At
the exit of the customs offices- customs officials and sectrita police re-
enamined the traveller 'Is exit permits and checked to see that his baggage
was marked properly.
6.. At the barricade between Shenehhlan and Low, a member of the security police
stopeed thp traveller and checked his documents against a list he carried,
The traveller was then asked i& he had a Britea entry penbit When he re-
phied that he had friends at Loma, he was asked how much he had paid his
friends. He said he had not paid them anything.. He was then permitted to go
through the barricade. A representative of the Yellow Oe on the 7,hench'uan
side signalled to a confederate on the Loma side as he passed through the
barricade., The British customs officials -- Hong Kong Chinese -- examined
his suitcase cursorily and passed him, Had he not wanted to open his luggage,
the castoms officials would have passed it for about :,,HK50, After clearing
tie esstoms in Levu, the traveller was taken to a shack snd told py the
Yelloe Ox representatives there that while travelling from Lowu to Kowloon
hc shauld act naturally, read a newspaper, and not talk or look about. He
wes net questioned between Lowe and Kowloon.
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