CHINESE MAINLAND RESIDENTS INTEREST IN FOREIGN BROADCASTS AND LEAFLET DROPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014400170002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY China
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DATE DISTR. 14 October 1952
SUBJECT Chinese Mainland Residents' .Interest in Foreign NO. OF PAGES 1
Broadcasts and. Leaflet Drops
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, A, AMENDED- ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15
PROHIBITED HY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS 'ORM 15 PROHIBITED.
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to f1he Chinese residents of Shanghai are very interested in foreign broadcasts,
particularly those coming from Manila, Radio Taiwan and the British, Broadcasting'
Company in Hong Kong. The Chinese discredit the Chinese Communist news and are
hungry for outside news which they consider truthful., A British resident in
Shanghai tells of several Chinese cooks pooling their funds to buy a radio
which they kept hidden in his kitchen.
20 The Chinese Nationalist leaflr~ts dropped over the southeast coastal provinces are of
little value. This is because most of the people whom they reach are illiterate and
therefore unable to understand the cartoons, However, Radio Taiwan is well liked
and widely listened to in secret.
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