CHINESE COMMUNISTS EXPLOIT MINES IN VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012900130008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Indochina/China
DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Chinese Communists Exploit Mines in Vietnam NO. OF PAGES
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1. There is a wolfram mine at Tinh Tae (105-51; 22-39), 46 kilometers from C.ao
Ba. (106-15; 22-40) .. There are more than, 10*000 miners working at Tinh Tue,
most.of whom are local inhabitants a Each month, three or four convoys con-
sisting of '(0 to 80 0 or Molotova .trucks transport the wolfram ore to China.
2 a At Cam Duong. (104.41; 22-24),-five kilometers southeast of Lao Kay (103-58;
22-30), approximately 10,000 miners are extracting "tritrate de phosphors"
(sic)o Moot cif the miners are inhabitants of the mountains. Ore from this
.mine is shipped by river to Phu Doan (105-12; 21-37) via Phu Yen Binh (104.58;
21-48) and is then transferred to Chinese trucks for transport to China.
Both of the above mines are being exploited .by Chinese Communist engineers
and the Chinese Communists pay all expe*es.
STATE .Pl
ARMY
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25 July 1932