RHEE REJECTS EISENHOWER'S 6 JUNE PROPOSALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91T01172R000200310030-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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OCI NO. 4490 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COPY NO. q OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
17 June 1953
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In a 17 June letter to President Eisenhower, President Rhee
refused to accept the armistice terms in return for US offers of
economic aid, an increase in the South Korean defense forces,
and a postarmistice mutual security pact. He argued that they
"come as a price" for South Korea's acceptance of a truce.
Calling a truce as presently proposed a "death warrant" for
his country, Rhee said that the value of a military pact, in view
of the nature of the proposed armistice, would diminish "almost
to a vanishing point." He charged that the "counsels of the
appeasers" had prevailed in the alteration of the US armistice
position.
Comment: This letter indicates that Rhee desires first,
to secure a bilateral pact on his own terms which would in no
way limit ROK freedom of action, second, to blame the US for
"forcing" him into accepting an armistice and third, to hold
the US responsible for future developments that prove unfavor-
able to South Korea. In the process, he apparently hopes to
derive whatever benefits the US has or may offer him while in
no case ever committing himself to acceptance of a truce.
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