NORTH KOREAN TROOP MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600330010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Korea DATE DJSTR. 21 August 19,E
SUBJECT North Korean Troop Movements NO. OF PAGES 1
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INFO. See below REPORT NO.
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1. On about 5 July, an unidentified artillery division of the North Korean army and
the North Korean training school at Hoeryong (129-45, 42.25) moved to Koryongjin
(129451, 112-30)
2. On about ]$ July, approximately 50,000 North Korean troops vho had been working
in the North Korean army-controlled munition plants and mines were removed from
their ,lobs, Thirty thousand were sent to Haeju (125142, 38-02), the rest to
Changsungni (128-38, 38-0L). All these troops were scheduled to leave soon for
South Korean battle areas,
3. On 15 July, approximately 24,000 Soviet-Koreans from Kazakhstan and Koreans
formerly with the Chinese Communists were being trained in the Singosan (127.
26, 38-52) area. Troops arrived from Kowon (127-14., 39-26) about two days earlier,
4. At ijindong (130-.o5, 42-05). used as a naval ba&e since approximately November
1949, there were on 16 July two, possibly three, Soviet warships, of an undeter-
mined type; approximately 140 North Kcrean navy patrol craft of Soviet and
Japanese type; and an undetermined number of Soviet and Korean naval personnel.
5. As of 17 July., there were very few regular North Korean troops north of the
38th Parallel. North Korean authorities were using boys, girls, old men and
women to repair roads damaged by UN bombings and to dig trenches and bomb
shelters in areas just north of the Parallel.
6, The North Korean army is receiving supplies and equipment from an unidentified
area in the USSR via Lienhuatung 13O-32, 1i2-35)?. Kyonghung (130.-3D, 142--35) on
the Manchuria .Korea border,
7. On 16 June,, six Soviet ships (type and size undetermined) arrived at Ghong jin
(129.-49, 41-46) from an undetermined location in the USSR with weapons and
CONFIDENTIAL'
CLASSIFICATION
This document is hereby 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.