POLITICAL INFORMATION: SOVIET HANDLING OF CAPTURED SOUTH KOREAN AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900150010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SUBJECT Political Information:
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Approximately 100G South Koren agents were captured. in North g . a from the
begirming of 1946 until June l947 n
The North Korean go rnmental organ nations have described most a,.f these
agents as reactionaries vdvD have come from South Korea to do uaw,scgr rx
for the mouth Korean Rightist organizations.
When apprehended, these agents were imprisoned in North Korean , =t 11e. They
were severely mistreated al d were not permitted to see members their
families. Their frmi lies , however, were allowed to send them Dud.
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&.. these prisoners were
to the Soviet Ammy Special, Service (Counter-Espionage) Headquuart '8 in
FP on gang (Reijo) (125-", 390l) . Members of the fsmi.l.ies of 1 ?r=, prisoners
also state that in February they were told that they wimad no I or be
allowed to send food to the prisoners. They therefore believe the
p, Di ners were removed from the prisons In which they had been fined and
sent elsewhere.
At the S o v i e t A Specie. Service Headquarters in P an the -risoners
receive three to four months of "mental training' (? Co un:.?~t 5 'Ifloctr:Ti.nation).
They are then sent to Wonsan (Censan) (127-26,, 39-10) to a teal _g camp for
industrial technicians. This camp is controlled by the Soviet is rt3r in Worsen.
Here the prisoners receive technical training. Three meals a d,-, ?ire served
at the camp and, in general, the prisoners are fairly well treat =; 4 ,
6. After completing their technical training,, the prisoners are being sent to
the USSR. Two groups, with 10 persons in each group, have irlr es Cdr, been sent
to the USSR from this training gyp.
This dn-.% ment contains information affecting
f'ae nnt_t:~n l d eefense of the United State 3 within
the mnnni.ng of the Espionage Act, 509 U0 ,C. 3..
rind 32 as .am-anded? Its transmission or ;iae revela-
tion of its contents in any manner to an ;unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
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