MILITARY INFORMATION: KOREAN SELF DEFENSE ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500610003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 19, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
In .[fobmar'y 1948, the total itrength o the rorean1 rCvl Defeyl (9 +-'M,'%'
was 500 men, fary of th eo ro.m were X',mii''!a k71`7 gttr #j"I'tp from Yova h Knr'Cifi .,
si'!:ty' were former Koxeaa'a Trjt s toe Arm p zeLllee3 f ht' 6:I.i by th , ]IE a?. t7 air?'v ki
in d-3nchtar.a aYAd 020 were young Korezarl Ged dentt of Mu,:deka, Chan.gc 1'n7 nanl
.others tape in ey1 patbar with the Chinesa Coaulaur4at came,
The members of the KSDA are metwnen thn ages or 18 r>d 23, and moe:t of t,I.re
have only a primary school edvcaatlom. Some are ardent Comtnuitieto and a714any
f twice avseek. The living conditions are bad?, the men receive no bedding
d must sleep in their un1forzs on cement floors. Twb aaaale are sea od
taaay, each meal conelsttng of 1.2 caattios of kraollanra, soap snd a few
eeetaabl3.,e ?pk each man. The, monthly .pay of each e,ultalo;ed atuaa, in) oszly
Director of Central lnteillgonce to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2003
Approved For Release 2003/08/08: C(O l 0061000 j'actCd by
Boa esat: In parch 1948, than black ss:arket rate of cxaaixnaxsge~ Rest
the 14,C asad the )U.S. dollar as NEC $62,000 to U,S, $1,)