ECONOMIC INFORMATION: TRADE WITH SURROUNDING COMMUNIST AREAS, PEIPING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900040009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 10, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R000900040009-3
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP,,
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Chime
DATE' 25X1 A
('fNFIDENTIAIi irw
SUBJECT Economic Informations Trade with Surrounding
C ;3art Ate, Peiping D1ST. iOSeptember 1947
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le Trading amoursi ms Into Ccnunint-occupied territory near Peiping c be
arranged by pant of CNC $400000000 to someone In the Peiping office of the
Paoting gar ca(,, $1,000,000 of this sum Is for the use of a truck and for
paymnt of the military officer who acc es the trader to the front 11naj
$1g000 000 paw for passing through the gate of the Peiping city valli the
other 2.OOO,000 burs a passport, Payment of the $4,000,0 Insures the trader's
arrival at the front line and gees that he will not be searched on his
return, At the front line the trader unloads the truck and hires a horse cart
to take him into the Comist area. As Paoting has been cut offp traders r
ga to Singh tien (115-55, 39-24) or to Chohalen (115-582, 39430).
2m The artic'lees most in demand by the C eats a ;t
ow-half inch scream (for ma" hand grenades)
merc y (for cooling heavy gum) blood vessel alamps, size ?6,,9 stainless steel, about cns
a*unres in weight, four inches long
quinine
hydroohlorle acid
paper, tats lin (4.. * ) , 100 lbs3. to the ream
p a p e r , t a o lin s 120 3beo to the re
paper, mo tsao j., )p type Em, 80 lbs.. to the ream
The Mao Tsou (Mao Chou? Characters tin) Trading Company, covering Shantung,
Hopei, and Chahar, was organized by the Cc mmists to buy the its in the
above 2.ist, as w i1 as other articles. The aazpany will pay the trader In CNC
notess Com moist curre ucy (Chin Cba .Chi notes,, current rates $1 C t equals
CNC $2), gold bars, ricaa Wheat flour, kaoliang, millet, or opium* Opium paw
the trader the largest profit - 200%.
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