CHINESE COMMUNIST PURCHASING ACTIVITIES IN BURMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009100100015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMkTION
1, In thr letter nart of August 1951, LT Ya-sung ( 4,;,), alias LI fling
( ), a Chinese Com-mnist arm officer, who is a native of Nanking
an4 wcs a vembor of the armored car unit drr"ng the Sino-Jananese war, was
roli io Burma on a n?rchasirgnsIon hy CTP1 eng. Ho was scheduled to
leave KurrIlrg for Burma via the Burma Pond an was given 83 gold tars to
co.:sr the cost or rv-tor vehicles, radio supnlies, and foreign ned:cines
wl& he tiad been instructed to buy in Burma. As soon -is he reached
(a-nroximately 9P-0C; 24-05) on the Yunnan-Burma border, LI con-
ve--ec two of the gold bars into Burmese currency to use for trawl exnensos.
On :--entember, when 71 arrived in Kutkal, he was recognIzed by a Chinese
7n ,iorfIlist guerrilla leader, who nfor-ed the proper Burrese authorities.
A- a result, T7 was detained and his rold bars cooPiscated by Burnes?
o''4oia1s. Although II requisted bail, no action has been taken.
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Th!) day h.?fore LT was detained, MAIM Keng ) and H7ArG Chun-feng
( 1 ), two other Conmunist officers, passed through Lrshio with a
Th'ea',rt of r7oney and nroceeded to R,-iro-n to do ther purchasing there.
At the rroen+ tine the Cblnese Corruncsts are in urger', need of coTT,..tEties
v'she,n Bump.. On 11 Jnr, pine truck loads of automobile tires, 344
vr,r,pr, arl 24; are drums of gasoline were handled by the Hui Li Trans-?
Corny 1.! were ;11. the custody of LI Ying-ta A ti:L ). On 27 July,
15;, leroe drums of gasoline were handled Ir., .rle Tlung raI, Ta S,-eng, and .
Lo Chang Psiang trarsnort companies tnder the supervision of rU. Ch'n-ttine
). In 2P July, 15f, large! 'rrris paSOlille were managed by the
^, r!"7" !",heng, Ttung Ttai, 7n1 Rain Chi transport connanies.
Ttin,rg the first ,,art of August m-re than 20 motor vehicles arrived in
irpfe- Oiu u (fi, )7 )2 in Bra. The-,e vehl!.cles were released
t e Chiu Nu police 1-....areau, wieh had be bribed 117 t'le Comunists irYth
irtvidua-! bribes rangrrP as high as TO rupees.
Th t Columnists pay at least 105000 rupeea for vehicles manufactured by Dodge
an:. General Motors. The Chinese Connurists usrqlly purchatie their tires from
thu United States through the, Hui Li Company of Kunming and acquire
;71areware and. similar articles through the UB Company of Rangoon.
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7. Tice uveek, on Tuesdays and Tridays, Nrmese cotton is releaa?.d and.
allowed to be transnorted to Yunn.an. Usually each shiptient consists
of' at least 900 bales.,
Ammept, Received as Thiel Kai (,1 ,Mt) and described as being
Jet ,en Lvshio and the Bur urian border,
Gammen, Chin Ku is cloue to Wanting, where incoming vehicles
1Thina must nark In a central parking it in order to facilitate
controa of passengers,
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