REPATRIATION OF KOREANS FROM USSR TO NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000190007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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a-cankers in, the dockyards? about, their situation as pa.lsenen?a and the e~cahni(aal
t;. a:i, .:ace they received in the t JR,. Most a abera praised Soviet politics and
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In J'anus.7 1949 the special group was scent to Vladivostok for steamship
arts tx i,ning-, In. January 1950 they were sent from Vladivostok, to W' xs n
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Soviet Trading Company,, At i enaan they were assigned as crew members on
North Kr ra a oosx t guard v6saelct operating along the ooast b +twwoen Wonsan
&and Sok ho ri. Mngoh' o=r ,,, 128-36j, M-12) in Karon Province :, Sol a also
vnre as si.gne:rii as > ataanii.o.?~ In the governu ant--controlled Went ,'~alpbuilding
C scat. ; + T ey 8x vi all quartered in the Wont North liar'ber (P 11ang rear than Won N,a'eai A 3Y~
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k,j post of the Xe sane wh* were detained by the Soviet ar ea with Japanese
prisoners of war in Manchuria were repatriated in. Ootobor 1949, A speolal
gr'otip of forty young Koream., however. was kept in the R and received speotal
$-;ral~gni:o ; before the members rturasd home,, Members of the group were all
-: uder 30 years old and were termer ,onser pts of the Taapaueee army, The
~Rant r of selectlon for their present work was not described,,
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ACQUIRED
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SUBJECT .epetriat,ion of Koreans
boh Korea
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a:aa?;In, their detention,, Group tubers add. sa one another by iies&en zt ames,,
and. at a resaul~t9 their Korean na a are not known
of the xs O.CB.Nx lxi&*, they are iA u'~.. Ce of South Ke a an wdV,ah to
rciota t he ? but their accents indP: pate that they are natives North and
South HaMgYGD9 ft-*TIAOSG., Therefox, it was thought by their Wass contacts,
that these a embe ?e were planning to go to South Korea not to return home
but ono r e spsaial mission for the T1 RO*
Nothi was disclosed by any member of the group about
ow or when or by what route he was to, .Proceed to South Korea nor about
special remissions to be carried out there.,
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