PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS, NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011000070004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION C014FIDEnIALL,
SECURITY INFORMATION
I MATION REPOR
COUNTRY Korea ' IRCULATZ DATE DISTR. 11 March 1952
25X1 SUBJECT Prisoner of War Camps, North Korea NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE OF
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794,. OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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In the afternoon of 22 November. 1951, 270 United Nations prisoners were
confined in two dug-outs a,t- the- foot of a hill at XE-4205 (approximately
121-39, 39?47)? 'he-prisoners, who wore military uniforms and. straw shoes,
were weak and unhealthy. Food included rice and a corn mixture of which
four=fiftbe -was Indian-corn. Each dug-out was about five meters wide and
seven meters long. The prisoners had neither covering nor bedding. Fifty.
armed guards watched the-prisoners; the-prisoners were suffering at the
bands of these guards Since they were-taken to the dug-outs in September
1951, the ;prisoners have been-employed in carrying monazite from the mines
at Ch'51aan. The prisoners expected to be moved to Manchuria.
On 1 December 1951 approximately 300 ROK army soldiers, captured. on 17
December 1950, were in 30 civilian homes in a village 40 meters north of
YD-3f+25 (approximately 125-42, 39-02). The prisoners cleaned the grounds
before breakfast between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., and from 7 a.m., to 6 pomp
they worked with North Koreans i.na printing plant, near the camp. T e
prisoners were clothed in North Korean, army uniforms but wore no insignia,
Each prisoner received 640 grams of corn and 160 grams of Chinese broom
corn daily. Detention in a- North Korean police station and. torture for
a eri d of one week were the punishments for idleness yI Yong-kil
( ) ) was one of the prisoners held in this village.
On 1 December 1951 nine United States, airmen, captured in duly 1951 when
a B-29 was forced down, were being detained, in a single room of a cement
building in the center of a village at YD -3423 (approximately 125 42, 39.02);..
The village is in a l.ley" Five members of the Ministry" of ocir-~,l SeenT? tty
were guarding the prisoners. Between 6 a-am. and 7 a -m- each day "bhe
prisoners cleaned North. Korean. inst.,a~ti.ons in the village. Between
8 a.m.. and 7 p.mm they, repaired homes in the village which bad" been damaged.
by United Nations raids. The prisoners, who were wearing United, States military
OSD review(s) completed.
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dress and shoes, received three hops of food daily. FFour-fifths .of the food,
w as corn-, .d one-fifth :s~ Chinese broom corn 4 Two interpreters,, members of
the MSS and armed. with pistols, guarded the prisoners while the Iri :i.so .ere
worked R The nine men were not receiving enough food. and. sought cigarettes from
residents of the village
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