Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) organization
also: Nationalist, Nationalists, KMT army, nationalist forces
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“efforts to mediate between Chinese factions, President Truman aligned the U.S. with Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Mao's field army nevertheless swept through mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chine…”
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They put their people in power in these countries like Guatemala. And if the people of these countries dare to rise up in a quote unquote democratic election and vote in a nationalist who are not going to let these robber barons destroy the…
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post-World War II for a significant period of time. So in China, cooperation between the Nationalist, which is Chiang's forces, and the Communist Party broke down soon after the defeat of Japan. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao merely resumed their …
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efforts to mediate between Chinese factions, President Truman aligned the U.S. with Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Mao's field army nevertheless swept through mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chine…
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American military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek. And at precisely the time when the U.S. covert action capabilities was coalescing within the CIA and the Pentagon. Now, keep in mind, basically the fighting is over in 1945. This is fou…
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and continued to support Chiang Kai-shek while he's in China as part of that fight. And that's a logical perpetuation, but a fact that most people don't know. Washington soon considered exploiting the still tenuous communist control of the …
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Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces established themselves on the islands offshore, chiefly Taiwan. At the time, originally it was Formosa. Then they just renamed it to Taiwan. The Chinese communists had no navy to speak of and no experien…
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onto Hainan, H-A-I-N-A-N, the next largest island to Taiwan. They succeeded after 10 invasions and considerable casualties. When, as so happens on the mainland, the morale of the nationalist troops broke. Superior force was no guarantee aga…
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the nationalist survivors back to Taiwan. Although there were fears the communists would follow, an invasion of Taiwan was a much more difficult proposition and was not even attempted. Proposals for covert action predated nationalist defeat…
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and is basically a CIA proprietary. It had initially operated inside of China. He went to Washington with a proposal for U.S. support to the nationalist Xi'an in southern China, plus covert aid to form guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Shenzhe…
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So President Truman simultaneously directed the State Department to re-examine the feasibility and basically told them to get on board with this plan. Stilwell was in China during World War II. He was working with the OSS there, as was Paul…
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disintegrated. So now they've lost their foothold in mainland China, forcing a shift of operations mounted from outside of China. Civil Air Transport acquired greater prominence because now you're going to have to ferry the fighters in. The…
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Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…
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Okay, this became a defining moment for civil air transport. The airline's performance in 1948 was impressive. 34 million ton miles, almost a quarter of a million passengers, and about 90,000 tons of cargo was consigned. So they're going to…
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Runaway inflation in China had put the nationalist disintegration in jeopardy. Well, both of them, the inflation and the disintegration of the nationalist movement on mainland China. This brought the civil air transport to kind of like the …
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in northwest China. He was touted as having up to 50,000 troops. Aid to the Muslims is the only covert action known to have been specifically mentioned by President Truman at a November 1949 meeting on assisting the Chinese nationalist caus…
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was defeated by Mao as well. He gathered his $1.5 million in gold bars and escaped on a civil air transport plane to Saudi Arabia. Recruits for missions to the mainland had to be found. This was not difficult because the nationalists all wa…
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In a speech in which he promised back to the mainland. That was kind of like the rallying call. And that was later picked up by the China lobby, which Claire Chennault basically led. That was kind of their motto. Back to the mainland. Admit…
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not unlike those the CIA encountered in Europe. Among the nationalists, there were factions, all of them hoping to corner USAID. Alfred T. Cox, a Wisner officer, was sent to Hong Kong to represent CIA as Civil Air Transport Headquarters. He…
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whose third force, Resistance, based itself in Hong Kong, and again, that's basically Chiang Kai-shek's deputy, hoped to become CIA's exclusive Chinese ally, but the agency dealt with anybody that would come around. Chinese politics embarra…
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60-year-old acting President Lee went to New York for medical treatment. Invited by President Truman for an official visit, Lee claimed to have almost 200,000 guerrillas loyal to him, not Chiang Kai-shek, him personally. In a memorandum dat…
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That deprived Lee of any perceived power in Washington, D.C. Despite internal struggles, Wisner's group of officers continued to think Lee offered a viable alternative, his third force, untainted by either communism or the corruption of the…
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Wisner's Far East Division Chief of Operations was James G.L. Kellis, K-E-L-L-I-S. He worried that backing both factions only robbed the U.S. of sincerity. Because Chiang Kai-shek controlled the offshore islands, the potential bases for sec…