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U.S. intelligence cable on support for Nationalist guerrillas in China, December thirteenth, nineteen forty‑nine. This declassified document is notable because it records a mid‑winter briefing from a U.S. diplomatic source in Taipei that details contacts with anti‑Communist guerrilla leaders, estimates of their forces, and a request for material assistance. The record is hosted on the Black Vault archive. The cable was released to the public through the Black Vault’s online collection. The declassification authority is listed as the United States Government, and the document was made available on the archive’s website on the date of upload. The full text can be accessed at archive dot org slash download slash us‑china‑intel‑CI00306 slash CI00306djvu dot txt. The document reads as follows: “From: Taipei, December thirteenth, nineteen forty‑nine, 130145 Z. To: Secretary of State, ASTALUSNA. Subject: rendezvous nine December with Mao Sen, General Commander Southeast Peoples Anti‑Communist Salvation Army, and female guerrilla Huang Pai‑mei, known as ‘Two‑Gun’ Huang Pai‑mei, Commander of the Haipeh column and magistrate of Pingpu. The officers find them most enthusiastic and believe they can spark deterioration of Communist forces from within, despite the Nationalist central government’s refusal to offer guerrillas any support financially or logistically. Mao reports troop strengths as follows: Kiangsu, twenty thousand; Kiangsi, two thousand; Fukien, twenty‑five thousand; Chekiang, fifty thousand; Shantung, fifty thousand; An‑hu, thirty thousand; Honan, fifty thousand. Troops are local militia, former Nationalist troops, students, farmers and defected Communists, operating under decentralized control and presently focused on preventing retaliation for Communist foraging on villages. Huang’s area centers in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces with strong points in Chapoo, Shaoshing, Yuang, Ningpo, Hanchow, Pootung outside Shanghai, and Tieh‑mu‑Shan. Huang says they now have radio stations in Kashing and Shanghai and intend to establish stations soon in Shaoshing, Ningpo, Yuang, Hanchow, Yenhai, Tieh‑mu‑Shan, and the Tai‑Lek area. Huang reports possession of fifteen tommy guns, fifteen carbines, and three thousand Japanese Mauser‑type rifles, each with fifty rounds. Mao requests initially thirty‑two, soon one hundred battery‑type radio transceivers with batteries capable of a hundred‑mile range, medicines such as sulfa and atabrine, and additional small arms. The request also includes one or two motorboats for emergency river use, five hundred pistols—either .45 caliber or .22 caliber—with silencers and two hundred rounds each, two hundred tommy guns with eight thousand rounds each, twelve thousand grenades, one hundred sixty light machine guns with two thousand rounds each, one thousand machetes, six hundred heavy machine guns with ammunition to mount on small sampans for raids, explosives of the RDX type, and poison darts for assassinations. Mao states…

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Filed NOV 13 · 2026Runtime 1 min

CIA Intelligence Cable On Support For Nationalist Guerrillas In China, December

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated November 13, 2026

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S. intelligence cable on support for Nationalist guerrillas in China, December thirteenth, nineteen forty‑nine. S. diplomatic source in Taipei that details contacts with anti‑Communist guerrilla leaders, estimates of their forces, and a request for material assistance. The record is hosted on the Black Vault archive.

Date: NOV 13 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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U.S. intelligence cable on support for Nationalist guerrillas in China, December thirteenth, nineteen forty‑nine. This declassified document is notable because it records a mid‑winter briefing from a U.S. diplomatic source in Taipei that details contacts with anti‑Communist guerrilla leaders…

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What was CIA Intelligence Cable On Support For Nationalist Guerrillas In China, December about?: S. intelligence cable on support for Nationalist guerrillas in China, December thirteenth, nineteen forty‑nine. S. diplomatic source in Taipei that details contacts with anti‑Communist guerrilla leaders, estimates of their forces, and a request for material assistance. The record is hosted on the Black Vault archive.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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