DISMANTLING OF AERIAL CABLE TRANSPORT LINE IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600230004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJE;: ;dfis xrnt1ing of Aerial. Cable Transport Line
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1\T,vim r .9tt9. the Noi-Lh Korean authorit:.Les asked for volunteers .: La
among Koren erngineen to ,moo to the USSR to inspect aerial cable transport
Sys'tem's there. Persons who volunteered received a bag of rice and 5000
Worth K t .-; n won ~:~'MM the Soviets; persons who refused to joiLn Kier arrested
by the Shit.e Security police and shipped to the TJSSR by force, about
21 Novem'bee r. in a Soviet transport from Chongj (1299, thi-! 6),, The
iur ?scion oi? the inspection trip :vas set at tm months,
when. Mexib a ,- of the party had not returned, by ?'ebruary~ 19$O, their fw.b-lies
:kx:o ' 4a!d bad Jiff iculty in making a :t_i viral ' inquired of the ?,7 i :ti s t. y of :frteriv-
a to tf e c .t; sty of is air delayed return The .)nly- reply iv n by the Ministry
v f; hat ,'i e men ..'xouid return within a few day:,,, They had not y?e. done so
b y t.ae end of Iarchr, and more parties of I'volunteers" were being c ollecited to
;;o to the USSR.
The er?r,J. cable transport :line which was built, beiwween. Hoz n ( )
:ref ;,utat ~n on ) South 31amgynnn Province,, at the tine of t e
. oh of thi Pocnon (1.23 -16,, it.O -W) River hydroele ctri~w plant ra
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reraov'es1. b Soviet orc..er ., heginni.ng, :in Fehr .arv 1.9 +0 By thw enc . f !L-arch,
hal'e' of th,:5 entire it;s ,illation had been d-.snantled;,*
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This document is h0{by regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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