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Declassified. This is a declassified Army intelligence summary from November tenth, nineteen-fifty, detailing Chinese Communist troop movements and supply lines during the Korean War. This document is available on The Black Vault at archives dot org. This document was released under the Freedom of Information Act by the Department of the Army and declassified on August twenty-eighth, two thousand and seventeen, by the Army's Assistant Chief of Staff, G-two. Reading now from the document: Weekly Intelligence Report, Number ninety, ten November nineteen fifty. Department of the Army, Office Assistant Chief of Staff, G-two. Washington twenty-five, D.C. Secret. China. Chinese Communists Moving Troops and Supplies. Secret. Recent reports indicate that there is considerable troop movement through North China toward Manchuria, and northward from South China and East China. The movement from the latter two areas cannot be directly traced to Manchuria, but the traffic is headed northward, and may be destined for Manchuria. In detail, heavy traffic is indicated as follows: a. Eastward along the Peiping-Suiyuan line, which runs from Suiyuan eastward through Tatung, Kalgan, and Peiping. This traffic reportedly is continuing eastward from Peiping to Manchuria. b. Northward on the Canton-Hankow Railroad, including large quantities of arms, ammunition, and military supplies shipped from Canton, and troop trains reportedly moving north from the area south of Hengyang. c. Northward from Amoy and Shangjao. Previous reports had indicated the movement of supplies, some units, and military, hospital facilities away from the Fukien coastal region. All observers, however, have been extremely reserved in the acceptance of the deployment of Third Field Army units to Manchuria. No Third Field Army units have been identified in that region to date. So far, these units appear to have moved into the Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow area. Military rail traffic between Shanghai and Nanking has been noted, however, and that on the Chin-Pu line running northward from Nanking to Tientsin has been reported as heavy several times in recent months. Some of the congestion on this line may be attributed to the northward movement of Fourth Field Army units, which apparently moved eastward primarily to Nanking whence they were observed moving northward. In connection with the reported traffic from the west of Peiping, one observer expressed the belief that the Nineteenth Army Group (Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Armies) were going to Manchuria. These units are carried in the northwestern Provinces, and G-two does not accept their movement to Manchuria on the basis of presently available information. To date, all Chinese Communist Field Force units carried in the Manchurian Order of Battle are those of the Fourth Field Army. Three of these apparently never left the region, and the remainder moved back to the area from South and Central China. The recent reports of heavy traffic…

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Filed OCT 29 · 2026Runtime 1 min

Army Intelligence Summary From November Tenth, Nineteen Fifty

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated October 29, 2026

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Declassified. This is a declassified Army intelligence summary from November tenth, nineteen-fifty, detailing Chinese Communist troop movements and supply lines during the Korean War. This document is available on The Black Vault at archives dot org.

Date: OCT 29 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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