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This episode of Declassified presents a Central Intelligence Agency record, a memorandum of conversation dated January second, nineteen-fifty-two, concerning General Li Mi's return to Formosa. This document highlights a complex interplay of international relations and covert support. It is publicly available via The Black Vault at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was declassified by the C-I-A and released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act, though no specific F-O-I-A case number is cited. Its release date is undisclosed within the available record, but its subject matter dates back to early nineteen-fifty-two, providing a snapshot of intelligence gathering from that period. The document is a Memorandum of Conversation, with participants Dr. Wang Hsiao-hsi, Assistant, East Asian Affairs Department; Mr. Hsi Chia-chiu, Chief, First Section, East Asian Affairs Department; and Mr. Robert W. Rinden. The subject is General Li Mi's return to Formosa. Date: January second, nineteen-fifty-two. Dr. Wang stated that General Li Mi had returned to Taipei at this time because of his lack of supplies. The General had ignored numerous previous requests of his government to report to Taipei for consultation and instructions because, until the end of nineteen-fifty-one, his supply problem was not acute. Now, Dr. Wang explained, his contracts or agreements for war materiel and other supplies had ended December thirty-first, nineteen-fifty-one, and he was obliged to come to Taipei to see what arrangements could be made to continue supplying his forces in northern Burma and Yunnan. When asked whether the contract or agreement just ended had concerned supplies to the General from the Chinese Government on Formosa, Dr. Wang replied that the Chinese Government had not been the source of the General's supplies. He laughed and remarked that, if it was not possible for the General to get his requirements from one source, it was possible to get them from another. Since it is, of course, a general belief here that American agencies have been supplying General Li Mi, the reporting officer did not pursue Dr. Wang's implication further. Without recounting the minutiae of the conversation, the reporting officer inferred from Dr. Wang's remarks and his general attitude of knowing amusement that the General had come to Taipei in the hope of arranging with certain Americans on the Island for his needs in the coming year. Dr. Wang, like other Foreign Office officials on previous occasions when the question of Chinese troops in Northern Burma has been discussed, gave the impression that he understands that American Embassy officers who come to make inquiries about Chinese troops in Burma or to express concern about their continued presence there, et cetera, are consciously participating in some sort of a disingenuous farce, and that consequently no one is expected to take their performance seriously. That the American Embassy should be ignorant of what…

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Date: OCT 14 · 2026
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