RETURN OF NOTH KOREAN REFUGEES FROM MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015100190012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/08: CIA-RDP82-00457R015100190012-8
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Korea
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 28 NoVember 1952
SUBJECT Return of North Korean Refugees from Manchuria. NO; OF PAGES 1
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED ?
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO 50X1-HUM
REPORT NO.
TNIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS. INFORNTTION AFFECTING INC NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE NEENIMOOF TITLE it, SECTIONS 79)
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, ?5 AMENDED. ITS TRANSWISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTEXTS TO OR RECEIPT ST AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PRODIOITED PT LAW.. TK( REPRODUCTION OF TKIS FORD IS PRONITATEO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. Between 5 and 20 August 1952 North Korean refugees who crossed the Tivmen 50X1-HUM
River in Manchuria to Avoid air raids were sent back to North
Korea by the Chinese Communists. The Chinese informed the Koreans that they
would allow no more refugees in Manchuria until the matter was settledon a
higher level, that the refugees might carry epidemic germs into Manchuria,
that the refugees should join the North Korean army instead of fleeing, And
that would bomb Manchuria if the Chinese sheltered Koreans
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2. In early August the North Korean government asked all refugees who fled to
Manchuria because of the air raids to return to North Korea. Returning
refugees were kept in camps at HyesanjiiH ) (DA-3283). On 9 50X1-HUM
August 1952 there were 2,500 refugees at Hyesanjin. About 1,500 of these
were sent to farms and factories as laborers,
CLASSIFICATION
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STATE
NAVY
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X FBI
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