1. ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES, TIBET 2. CHINESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES, TIBET

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT 1. Anti-Communist Activities, Tibet
2. Chinese Communstr,tivit~s, Tibet
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Peoplets Party
1. The People's Party is one of a number of loosely organized anti-Communist
groups in Tibet which would cooperate in the event of a move to destroy the
occupying Chinese forces. The leaders of the People ?s Party in Lhasa early
renounced any attempt to keep a list of the many adherents to their party,
but have a roster of leaders in the var?i.ous districts of Tibet. Among the
elements in the People's Party are the following.
a. Lhopto Rimpochhe, 36 years of age, is the leader of the warrior monks
(dhoptos) of the Drepung, Sera and. Ganden monasteries in Lhasa. Chhandzo
of Drepung monastery is another leader in the People's Party.
b. In Lhasa, traders, carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors and other similar
groups formed unions of a sort which for a time held meetings three or
four times a week. By June 1952 these meetings, which brought together
from a thousand to three thousand people, had been discontinued as
attracting too much attention, but: the organizations persisted.
c. In eastern Tibet (Sikang Province), people in the Batang (99-00,30-00)
and Chiangtu (Chamdo, 97-07, 31-10) areas had been recruited for the
People's Party and asked to report, on Chinese Communist activities,
Activities of Ragashar chapel
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2. In the first half of 1952 Ragashar Shape enjoyed the confidence of the
Chinese authorities in Lhasa., with whom he held conferences twice a week.
In early April he drew up and presented a petition addressed to the Chinese
Communist government and to the local authorities in Lhasa. The petition
covered the following points:
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a. The Dalai Lama should continue as supreme power in Tibet.
b. Monastery estates should not be confiscated.2
c. Action should be taken against the hoarding of grain, which had produced a
rise in the'price of food.3
d. If the Chinese chose to do so, they might follow the precedent of former
Chinese regimes and keep a representative (amban) in Lhasa with a small staff,
but Tibet, agriculturally poor, cannot support large numbers of Chinese
troops. At most, two or three hundred bodyguards could be supported.
e. Having liberated Tibet, for which the Tibetan people are grateful, it would
be well if the Chinese would leave Tibet and return to China, inasmuch as at
present no foreign powers threaten Tibet. The Tibetan people are simple and
concerned only with earning a livelihood; thoughts of the outside world are
beyond their poor intellects. Should foreign powers threaten Tibet, the
Tibetans would call on the Chinese to protect them.
f. Most Tibetans earn their livelihood by trading Formerly their chief export,
was vool, which they sold to the British and Americans. Since the Chinese so
kindly liberated Tibet, an embargo has been imposed on purchasing wool, and
the traders consequently find themselves in difficult circumstances. Would
the Chinese please buy the wool.
The Chinese made no reply to the petition. They did, however, go to the Kashag
and demand the dismissal o* the two Prime Ministers, claiming that the latter were
behind the Peoplet.s Party.
Kham Area
3. In the Kham area Chinese soldiers found it.necessary to travel in groups of
twenty or thirty for mutual protection against the Khambas, who were killing the
Chinese as Communist enemies of Buddhism.
A lama made anti-Communist speeches in Ch?angtu. The Chinese threatened him with
death and made him deliver a speech they had prepared for him.
5. The Chinese made Topgyal Pangdatshang governor of Kh.am in the hope that he could
make Communist domination palatable to the people.
6. The Chinese took about two hundred children, aged from 8 to 15 years, from their
homes in the area where. both Chinese and Tibetan are spoken, and sent them to
Gyangtse (89.36, 28-5(), planning to train them and use them as interpreters.
When the homesick children cried and wanted to go home, one of their number was
beheaded as a warning.
Tibetans Suspected of Supplying Information to the Chinese
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Chinese Forces in Tibet
B. In May 1952 there were 50,000 Chinese troops in Tibet..
9. The following were the senior Chinese Communist army officers in Tibet:
a. General CHANG Kuo,mhua.9 in Lhasa.
b. General FAN, commnander, of the 18 Division.10
o. Staff Officer LI9 quartermaster, in Lhasa.ll
d. TCJ Cha-tln:9 commander of the Chinese forces in Gyangtse )-2
e. LITJ Tse--mo9 chief of intelligence in Gyangtse, handling both civil and
military intelligence He has direct contact with Peiping J3
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2. Comment, The lamas say they will fight if the monastery lands are
confiscated.
Comment. The Tibetan Government took hoarding and." the high prices
by dstr?ibuting Chinese brick tea at a low price; (2) forbidding the
manufacture of barley beer, which brought the price down from 110 to 75
tsangy and (3) lending barley to the poorer people only, accepting repay-
ment in grain or money.
~G. I LComment. The dismissal of Lukhang was reported in late May
9 and. he resignation of Lobsang Tashi was announced about a month
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1 Comment. Though this figure appears high, it must be born in
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as is evidence y references to Batang and Ch?angtu.
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. news release from Peiping on 20 February 1952 listed FAN Ming as deputy
political commissar for the Tibetan Military District.
25X1 110 omment. On 20 February 1952 LI Chueh was reported as chief of
sTall o e Tibetan Military District.
25X1 12. Comment. A report which appeared in the New Delhi press with a
. _ n. ate line, 19 March 1952, gave TU Tu-ren (also without characters)
as garrison commander in Cyangtse and Zhikatse.
25X1 13. omment. The 20 February 1952 press release included the name of
LIU Chen,rkuo, political director, Tibetan Military District.
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