BACKGROUND OF NORTH KOREAN INVASION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800660007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Background of North Korean Invasion
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1, The Soviet Military Advisory Group, North Korea early in 1950 instructed
the NKPA to strengthen and train its forces. The NKPt1 transferred its
ordnance installations from cities to isolated areas, and hid Soviet
supplies, weapons and ammunition. At the same time, Soviet intelligence
assured the North Korean (NK) government that the U,S. was not preparing
for war, but that the USSR planned to occupy the Republic of Korea by
September 1950, NK participation would be important in plans for an
invasion of Japan by NK and Chinese Communist troops, Later the Comm mists
use Japan and Korea as USSR bases for a third world war. The Soviets
emphasized that the key to victory is ideological, not based on armaments,
2. On about 5 April the USSR called up nearly 200,000 troops for training,
By August these troops were to be concentrated at Khabarovsk, ready to
aid North Korea if the situation worseua,
3a Two divisions of Chinese Communist troops arrived in Antung on 23 May from
unknown bases in China, They were transferred to Sinuiju in early Ju:ly,
and were sent to various NKPA divisions at the front,*
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Cooement, These were probably Korean troops who had been fighting
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