OPERATIONAL DATE - KOREA - LEE, DUNCAN CHAPLIN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005657586
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Case Number: F-2009-01397
• Publication Date: March 19, 1945

Mal r Dunci-n C. Lee
F'rir St: i,vht
Oper.:tioncl L: t5 - {ores.
Interview with N-17,610 on Frid:A,. ti::arch 1Ei 1945
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DATE: 07-Jun-2011
The following notes should be reed in conluncti:.n with my
eetorsndum of even dr-te =drirersed to ;omzande of
Document Security. This 1a.tte *~ ndum covers various points of
specific interest to Cotiernder r~Jbit these points also have a
direct beat:ring on the following rrgr=::hs.
Subject confirmed the opin1. ns of other interviewees to the
effect that P. white :gent w:ntid have 'Little chance of zurvivsl in
Korea et the Present time. He right be able to hide away in some
mountain retreat for tire, always providing he could find some
means of existence, but he :could certainly be completely hamstrung
_'row an ope-ative standpoint.
On the other hind, subject also confirmed the ideas of other
interviewees thet ^ert-'in ty.,ei of Korer,ns would have a chance of
useful s?zrvivnl. When seed to define the r 'st su>table type of
Korean, subject siecified -s fllora:
The most i~^port+.nt :.jtr.t is to find s Korean who himself had
a desire to do the ?:,b end who could .ro.iuce a plan or schwa of his
own for the .-ur;;ose. In ot:cr ..orris, subject suggests that the de-
tails of the project should, f,r -s ;:ossible, be made to fit the
capabilities of the Fdlvidual rr!thc:r than attempting to fit the
individual into a specific .lnn of o_,er.:tion. He makes this point
bec'use the success or failure o' such an operstioa must depend to a
1Frge extent an indiviciunl circumsti+nees. The man must hive been in
torea recently enough not to h&ve lost his colloquial pronunciation.
There nre very distinct regi:>nal differences in colloquial speech
and the Korean wh.i h::s been in this country too long is more than
likely to rave lost `:'.s loc l accent which would in itself make hip
subject to im;::edi t.e sus. felon.
Furthermore the :rr.n -:qt have close rsonel ties in Korea
^s his r:urviv;.1 will de,,end ;.,. n ',.he gssista.r.ce of r*IFtlvtx rand
-werh-ps close frterads.
In n.dditi.)n, and ,erhapz t.;ost it,perts:nt of all, subject is.
of the optnian the:t the Koren gent must be chosen with strict
attemtinn to the intensity or his anti-Jr:p nose sentiments. Subject
dr*nws P. c%nsidernble dietincti;n bet men the: feelings of the Korean
who has bean in bmericr fora number of ye::rs rind his compatriot who
 has pers?mrlly ;nd co^tp?rttiveiy recent'.y sufftred 't J,%q nese h nds.
In his own ordo "The Mrerican Korean i tatter a:;_.:gh but theoreticLlly
.nd ;roressian&lly, which is riffrrent first-hand ex_erlenee.s
In summing up .he foregoIng, subject ;o:.ta out the:t a combina-
tion of these qualifienticns will inevitably mean tni.t the scope and
extent of the 4ents9 o;:er-tl no s'lil b4% controlled trij ' y. In one
onse it TM,xv he ozslble to t-.e their (,.::,u rretic?neive, in : n:,ther
circur,st. noes r:y limit they cnnsiderr.bly, hence his ob;ervA.ion that
the job shauld be fitted to F.hr !:;;;n nd --it vice versa.
Subject b: no :sea;ns e;+?ciudes ttte ;:ossib:i.ity of using Y.ore.ns
who hove. been tr y :roar thU_ir country a ? r ; .:ads of six or seven
years ',nit he feels site stri:igly t':.;t fl.rnt o,f?'orts s`i,,u.,d be Made
to ex'rare the ;os