DEFENSES IN THE INCHON AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900070009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY' Korea
SUBJECT
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Defenses in the Inchon Area
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
THE I'OLLOWIN6 REPORT WAS PREVIOUSLY
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orenqnchon area.
a. An ammunition pi3b 1 yard high and about 77 yards long at a spot
approximately 200 yards southwest of Kimpo air base,
bo About 90 cubic feet of ammunition in wooden boxes stored on the
shores of a small boat harbor at Sonyubon.gs, approximately (126-54e
37-32)?
co About 2140 cubic feet of ammunition across the Han River from bj,
20 In the vicinity of Yongdungpo (126$51., 37-31) railway station are then-
f
ollowing supplies:
ao Ammunition (type unstated) scattered on both sides of the railro ,d
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kapproxzrnateiy 120-54-05, 37-30-35). The school has a red roof,
do Three hundred boxes of ammunition'. (type unknown) stored in the
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pp a e y yards northeast of the station,
c? Three box cars full of oil drums unloaded into three trucks at
the station platform on 9 September,
bQ Five hundred oil drums in the Seoul electric railroad warehouse!
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s a on approximately 675 yards east,
This document is hereby regraded to
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
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textile facto ormer ane r-,
ry (l26-51t 10a, 37-31-40) is being extended to the harborr~
The narrow gauge railroad frcma. Yon dungpo station to the f K
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at Sonyubong as a pushcart railroad. The main highway from Yongdungpo
to Kimpo air base is torn up to make an underpass for a narrow gauge
railroad at approximately (126511?25, 37-32). There is no bypass
for the highway,*
4. There are two antiaircraft (AA) guns at the edge of Kimpo airfield,
There are two AA guns on a sun=it on Wolmi?do, adjacent to the former
U.S. communications building.
!5o The NKPA is quartering troops at churches and schools in the belief
that UN planes will not bomb such buildings. Adjacent civilian houses
and other buildings are used for the same reason.
6. About 500 North Korean troops are quartered in a bomb shelter near the
former Pucho n district goverment building at Inchon (126-39-40,
37=28-10). The quarters were chosen because of a fuel shortage and
the fear of UN aircraft,
7o About two companies (250'men) are billeted in the basement of a former
fruit market in front of the Sang Inchon railway station (1263&-109
37.2&'30). There are about 150 troops in the Chonju church, Tap?dong,
Inchon., opposite the Sinhwan Primary School.
There is a gunpowder factory at Namdong railway station (126-38- 55',
37?26-5O), The motors in the factory were taken from a textile
factory,
Comment. The highway is shown on the ADM map L-751 3.z 50s,000.,,
8i" ' 9 ?' as a yellow line from 12653-05$ 37-32-45 to l26-55o1A,
37730.
Comment, This is the first station from Inchon on the Satin
narrow gauge Ine to Suwon.
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