CHINESE COMMUNIST ARMY AND PUBLIC SECURITY UNITS, SOUTH CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800290002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form It prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Army and Public
Security Units, South China
DATE OF INFO.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 17 August 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
the 41 A my was commanded by WU K'o-hua (0702/0344/5478),
with WEN Yu-ch'eng (3306/3768/2052)2 his deputy commander, OU-YANG Wen (2962/
7122/211.29) as political commissar, LI Fu-tse (2621/4395/3419) as chief of
staff, and LI Pai-ling (2621/4102/0109) as chief of the Political Department.
The headquarters of the 41 Army, with a total of 3,000 men, was at Swatow.
The subordinate divisions were disposed as follows.
a. The headquarters of the 121 Division was at Swatow with regiments in
the Ch'aoan (N 23-42) E 116-37)-Nanao (N 23-22) E 117-06)-Huilai (N 23-03)
E 116-18)-Chiehyang (N 23-32) E 116-20) area.
b. The headquarters of the 122'Division was at Huiyang (N 23-05) E 114-26)
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with regiments in the Haifeng (N 22-58, E 115-20)-Lufeng (N.22-58, E 115-38)
area.
c. The headquarters of the 123 Division was at Tsengch'eng (N 23-16) E 113-49),
with regiments along the Canton-Huiyang highway.
4. I (five public security regiments, with a total strength of
5,500 men) were under the command of TS'''AI Kuo-liaig (N 5591/0948/2856),
commander of the East River Military Sub-District.
5. Ithe Kwan~tung 5 Public Security Division was in Ch'uchiang 25X1
F 113-18) and P'ingshihhsu (approximately N 25-18, E 113-01). The 14
Regiment at Juyuan (N 24-49, E 113-04); and the 15 Regiment at Shihhs.ing
(N 25-02, E 114-03).
1Comment. Available information indicates that WU was formerly
accepted as commander of the 43 Army and WANG Kuo-hsing (3769/0948/5381)
as commander of the 41 Army. The present commander of the 41 Army is
unknown.
the
East River Sub-District had four regiments with a total of 4,,500 men
Comment.
Security Division in Ch'uchiang
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