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This Declassified briefing covers a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a secret memorandum from the Department of State, dated April eleventh, nineteen-fifty-one. It outlines a preliminary list of Chinese leaders in Hong Kong engaged in anti-communist work. This document is available at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was released under the Freedom of Information Act and was declassified by the National Archives and Records Administration, A-A-R-O, on April fourteenth, two-thousand-and-six. The original classification was "Secret". The document begins: To: Department of State From: Hong Kong Date: April eleventh, nineteen-fifty-one Subject: Preliminary List of Chinese Leaders in Hong Kong Engaged in Anti-Communist Work. There is enclosed a preliminary list of Chinese Leaders engaged in anti-Communist work in Hong Kong. This list has been restricted to the most prominent leaders, and includes only those known personally to members of the Consulate General. It is believed that fairly extensive biographic data on each of these persons is available to the Department, and biographic remarks have been held to a minimum in the preparation of the list. The persons listed all command, in greater or lesser measure, personal prestige which would make them useful as rallying points for an anti-Communist movement among Chinese abroad. However, it is realized that most of them are now well along in years and could not provide the energy and dynamism necessary to spark such a movement. This can only be provided by younger men, some of whom would rise to positions of leadership as the movement continued and gained momentum. Therefore, a more extensive list is being prepared, which will contain the names of younger men, as well as others who are performing useful anti-Communist work, but who are not considered to be so important as those on the enclosed list. Because of the necessity to maintain security, but at the same time to find out as much as possible about each individual, it will probably take some time to complete the list. Certain of the most active and useful anti-Communist Chinese in Hong Kong have already been recommended to the Department for leadership grants under Public Law five hundred thirty-five. The names of those whose applications are still pending are included here. The enclosure is a preliminary list of anti-Communist Chinese leaders in Hong Kong, with details including: One. Chang Fa-k’uei, Kwangtung. Top-Level Chinese military leader. Has considerable political following in Kwangtung and Kwangsi. Speaks Cantonese, Hakka, and Mandarin. Two. Ku Meng-yu, Hopei. Former Minister of Railways and Chancellor of National Central University. Currently publishing anti-Communist journal in cooperation with Tung Kuan-hsien. Three. Tung Kuan-hsien, Chahar. One of most respected anti-communist political leaders. German-educated. Speaks English, Mandarin and probably German. Former President of Legislative Yuan. Four. Wang…

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This Declassified briefing covers a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a secret memorandum from the Department of State, dated April eleventh, nineteen-fifty-one. It outlines a preliminary list of Chinese leaders in Hong Kong engaged in anti-communist work. com.

Date: OCT 21 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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