CHINESE COMMUNIST SCHOOLS AND STUDENT RECRUITMENT PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008200340012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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DATE DISTR. 27 July 1951
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25X1 SUBJECT Chinese Cammuni.st Schools and Student
Recruitment Program
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June early July 1951 REPORT NO.
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1. In late June a number of Soviet and Chinese Ccmmunist instructors and. 3,000
students were at the Chinese Communist National Defense University, u'ilich
was established in the spring of 1950 by the Revolutionary Military Council
at the former site of the Chahar Training Corps of the Nationalist
Pacification Corps in Kalgan. About 2,100 of these students were selected
from middle schools and colleges and the rest from the army. The university
has the following departments: national defense engineering, national
defense economics, and national defense medicine. The honorary head of the
school is M0 Tse-tung, the honorary deputy head is 01W Te. The actual head
of the school is LPI1 Kung-vu ( 14 )l, a 61 year old native of Soochow,
Kiangsu, and a graduate of the Tokyo flaparial University, class of 19110
He joined the Chinese Communists in the fall of 1945 and was a former member
of the Nationalist Congress and head of a news agency.
2. Since early July authorities in ':enchou are conducting an intensive campaign
to recruit students and young workers for a Chinese Camiunist I.4ilitary and
Political Academy. By 16 July 820 had applied and of these 98 students and
52 young workers had already qualified for the academy.
3. In accordance with an edict from the Government Council, the Bureau of
Education, Shanghai, in early July started to assign jobs to all June 1951
middle school and college graduates who were not continuing their education.
This practice will be followed for all future graduating classes02
1a In June 1951, 1,300 students were graduated from Shanghai middle schools and
colleges. Among them were 500 mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering
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14 Comments LAN has been reported as a member of the Committee
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2p ammento This action is being taken to increase g6vermant control
over a trained technical personnels
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