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SITUATION REPORT AS OF MID-NOVEMBER REGARDING INCREASED SECURITY MEASURES IN CHINA
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SUMMARY. SINCES THERE HASONTINUED AND
INCREASED TIGHTENING OF SECURITY MEASURES IN CHINA, AN INCREASED
STRINGENCY HAS BEEN NOTED IN BOTH BORDER CONTROLS AND INTERNAL TRAVEL
RESTRICTIONS. WHEREAS BODY SEARCHES PREVIOUSLY HAD BEEN EXCEPTIONS, THEV
NOW HAVE BECOME ALMOST THE RULE. IT IS NOT UNUSUALRAVELLER TO BE
DETAINED, STRIPPED, HIS BAGGAGE AND CLOTHING THOROUGHLY SEARCHED AND TO
BE CLOSELY INTERROGATED AS TO THE DETAILS OF HIS TRIP. TRAVEL WITHIN TKE
MAINLAND FOR THE RESIDENT, AS WELL AS THE TRAVELLER FROM ABROAD, IS
GETTING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT. TRAVELLERS ARE REQUIRED TO STRICTLY
ADHERE TO THE TRAVEL AREAS SPECIFIED IN THEIR LETTERS OF
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4 FREQUENT ROAD CHECK POINTS MAKE TRAVEL TO NON-AUTHORIZED AREAS
2 IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE. THERE HAS BEEN EVIDENCE OF TWO UNUSUAL CONSIDERA- 2
SECURITY SITUATION ON THE
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FEAR OF CONTAMINATION BY OUTSIDE ELEMENTS AMD INCREASED CONTROL OVER MAIL AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. TEE FORMER HAS BEEN MANIFESTED IN RECENT INCIDENTS OF MAINLAND RESIDENTS REFUSING TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH OVERSEAS TRAVELLERS OR OF TRYING TO DISCOURAGE TRAVELLERS FROM FREELY WANDERING AROUND TOWN WHERE TEEY MIGHT COME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE CONTAMINATION ALSO INCLUDES INDIRECT CONTACT IN THE FORM OF REMITTANCES, TELEPHONE CALLS, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND THE LIKE. NOWEMBLANCE OF ORDER HAS BEEN RESTORED SINCE THE HEIGHT OF THE. CHAOS OF TEE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, IT APKARS THAT THE AUTHORITIES ARE MAKING AN EFFORT TO LIMIT THE FLOW OF INFORMATION OUT OF THE MA INLAND BE IT THROUGH
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IN ADDITION TO CHINESE COMMUNIST EFFORTS TO CONTROL TEE MAIL FLOW, TEEY ALSO HAVE ROGRAM OF LIMITING TBE NUMBER OF JOURNALS AND DOCUMENTS THAT REACH THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
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EASONTINUED AND INCREASED TIGHTENING OF SECURITY IM CHINA INCLUDING AREAS HITHERTO RELATIVELY FREE FROM CONTROL DUE TO CHAOSULTURAL REVOLUTION. THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, PRIMARILY THROUGH THE ORGANS OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY (PLA) AND THS NEWLY CREATED WORKERS PROVOST CORPS, HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE DEMISE OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION TO REGIMENT, REORGANIZE AND RESTRICT THE CHINESE POPULACE. USING THE TRIED AND TRUE METHOD OF RECTIFICATION, PRESENTLY OPERATING UNDER THE SLOGANHINESE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES HAVEAMPAIGN THAT LITERALLY ENCOMPASSES IN ITS LIST OF TARGETS ALL "BAD ELEMENTS" IN THE CHINESE COMMUNIST LITANY OF SINNERS. BH^LHlilliTfimTTTMMIirMMT^LIMTLWWrMM . ..
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CAMPAIGN" LISTSAD ELEMENTS FROM THE OLD STAND3YS SUCH AS TEE "LANDLORDS "RICHO THOSE SIMPLY REFERRED TO AS HAVING "LOOSEEEDLESS TO SAY "KMT ELEMENTS" RANK HIGH AMONG TARGETS AND THIS PARTICULAR ASPECT OF CAMPAIGN HAS LED TO INTENSIVE SEARCH AND ROUNDUP ACTIVITIES. THERE HAVE BEEN ALMOST DAILY REPORTS OF ARRESTS FROM KWANGTUNG. IXED CIVILIAN/FLA SECURITY TEAM SEARCHED THE ENTIRETORIES OF THE "CANTON GUEST HOUSE" EN SEARCH OF "KMT AGENTS" AND IN TKE PROCESS THOROUGHLY INTIMIDATED ALL OF THE GUESTS. XN ADDITION TO TEE STEPPZD-UP "PURIFICATION CAMPAIGN" CHINA IS ROT IN THE PROCESS F TIDYING UP AND TIGHTENING DOWN IN TWO OTHER AREAS. .
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RESTORATION OP ORDER AND CONTROL.
2. SPECIFIC SECURITY CONDITIONS. IN THE TRADITIONAL AREAS OF BORDER CONTROLS AND INTERNAL TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, THE PAST TWO MONTHS HAVEAN INCREASED STRINGENCY TO THE POINT WHERE ONE RECENT TRAVELLER TO CANTON AND PEKING COMMENTED THAT HIS EIGHTEEN DAYS IN CHINA SEEMED LIKE EIGHTEEN YEARS. THE FOLLOWINGUMMARY OF SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS IN THESE TRADITIONAL AREAS.
A. BORDER CONTROLS. WHEREAS BODY SEARCHES PREVIOUSLY HAD BEEN EXCEPTIONS, THEY NOW HAVE BECOME ALMOST THE RULE IN CASE OF TRAVELLERS TO TKE MAINLAND PARTICULARLY AT SBUMCHUN. IT IS NOT' UNUSUALRAVELLER TO BE DETAINED, STRIPPED, HIS BAGGAGE AND CLOTHING THOROUGHLY SEARCHED AND TO BE CLOSELY INTERROGATED AS TO THE DETAILS OF HIS TRIP. PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU (PSB)/PLA TEAMS AT THE BORDER SEEM PRIMARILY INTERESTED INRAVELLER IS TRAVELLING TO CHINA, PRECISELY WHERE HE IS GOING, WHO HE IS GOING TO VISIT AND WHAT THE TRAVELLER DOES EITHER IN HONG KONG OR HISLIMM
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PROCEDURES ARE MIXED. TRAVEL DOCUMENTS MUST BE RETRIEVED AT THE PSB OFFICE
BEFORE LEAVINGRAVELLER IS OPEN TO INTERROGATION AT THIS POINT AND
AT THE BORDER AS WELL.
B. INTERNAL TRAVEL. TRAVEL WITHIN THE MAINLAND FOR THE RESIDENT,
AS WELL AS THE TRAVELLER FROM ABROAD, IS GETTING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT.
SOME OVERSEAS TRAVELLERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTIES WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED TO TRAWL
BEYOND THE AREAS SPECIFIED IN THEIR "LETTER OF INTRODUCTION ITHOUT GETTING SPECIFIC APPROVAL FROM THE PSB OFFICE OR "PACIFICATION COMMITTEE'
IN THE ARE* TEEY BAD DESIGNATED AS THE PRIMARY LOCATION FOR THEIR VISIT. SBBBilBHIH "HE LOI IS NOW PRESENTEDEWLY-ESTABLISHED
"PACIFICATIOX COMMITTEE" COMPRISEDIXED MILITARY AND CIVILIAN STAFF OF EIGHT MEMBERS. WITHOUT SPECIFIC PSB AUTHORIZATION TO TRAVEL, PRESUMABLE THE TRAVELLER WOULD NOT BEO PURCHASE TRAVEL TICKETS. IF THE TRAVELLER DID GET TICXETS WITHOUT THE PSB AUTHORIZATION TO TRAVEL, WHICH IS POSSIBIE
IN SOME OUTLYING AREAS WHERE CONTROL IS LESS UNIFORM, HE WOULD FACE THE CHANCE OF BEING STOPPED EN ROUTE BY AUTHORITIES AND HAVING HIS DOCUMENTS CHECKED. ONE TRAVELLER REPORTED MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS PROVOST CORPS STOPPED HIS BUS THREE TIMES DURING TRIP FROM CANTON TO TAISHAN TO CHECK
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PLA/PSB WORKERS PROVOST TEAMS HAVE COMBINED TO SET UP CHECK POINTS ON ALMOST EVERY MAJOR ARTERY IN AND OUT OF CANTON AND THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THIS COVERAGE IS PROBABLY IN EVIDENCE ELSEHWERE IN CHINA. ONE EXCEPTION SHOULD BE NOTED. ONE TRAVELLER WAS ABLE TO FLY FROM CANTON TO MANNING WITH RELATIVE EASE.
3. UNUSUAL SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS. THERE HAS BEEN EVIDENCE OF TWO NOT NECESSARILY NEW, UNUSUAL CONSIDERATIONS WHICH ARE FACETS OF THE PRESENT SECURITY SITUATION ON THE MAINLAND. BOTH, IT APPEARS, ARE SPAWNED FROM THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING "PURIFICATION CAMPAIGN" DESCRIBED ABOVE:
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CH'U COMMUNE OF HAI FENG COUNTRY, KWANGTUNG, HAS DECLARED THAT FROM HONG KONG ARE 1UNDESIREABLEND CONSEQUENTLY
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A. FEAR OF CONTAMINATION BY OUTSIDE ELEMENTS. THERE HAVE BEEN INSTANCES OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS, REFUSING TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DORAVELLER TO THE MAINLAND. ip^hp^hbipff^pff^hpff^pff^pffspff^pff^pff^pffhhiiv^hhh
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b. increased control over mail and dissemination of very nature of the cultural revolution and the requisitealmost every element in the country has made uniform securityif not next to impossible. mail censorship, long an activepart of chinese communist security practices, requiresand considerable investigation and follow-through if it to serve its purpose. rogram apparently could not be maintained during the period of chaos that marked the height of
also in the form of remittances, telephone calls, letters, telegrams and the like. canton authorities recent^y^ conducted investigations of residents receiving remittances fromll recipients here required to identify the sources of the remittances ant the amounts received. the authorities paid particular attention toremittances, which presumably they might interpret as payment for services rendered.
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CULTURAL REVOLUTION. HOWEVER, NOWEMBLANCE OF ORDER HAS BEEN
RESTORED TT APPEARS TEAT THE AUTHORITIES ARE MAKING AN EFFORT TO LIMIT
THE FLOW OF INFORMATION OFT OF THE MAINLAND BE IT THROUGH MAIL, NEWSPAPERS.
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