SOUTH CHINA RECRUITING OF MEN AND WOMEN FOR CHINESE COMMUNIST ARMY AND MILITIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012000120003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2003/08/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R012000120003-6
FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
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COUNTRY C:nina/Southeast 1^sia/1-'.orrea
INFO RT REPORT NO.
SUBJECT South Chine hecruitin. of Men an'! Weciena
for. j'h:;_neso; CorsmItrl_zni.ct Army an a Militia
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED SY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
In accordance with this decision, overx nen& azthori+ies in iwar tung ordered
the recruiting for the army of 450,000, men anr9 woneln between the ages of 18
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1. In about February or M ?ch 19,52 the C~ziriese Ccomlrnuni.st Government decided to
increase the number of regular army troops to 6,000,000 by the end of June
1952 in ox-der to use "htMan-wave" tactie in their invasion of Indoch.iia, .,25X1
and 35. Two hundred thou::zn.