P'YONGYANG PRISON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900070012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT PDy ngyang Prison
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE. U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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1. L June the PTyo gyang prison., in three underground rooms at approximately
YD-388212, Kirimmni, and under the control of the Ministry of the Interior,
was detaining approximately nine hundred persons, including political and
economic offenders and R OK intelligence agents.
2. The prisoners, who were not coagipelled to work out were -restricted to the
prison, received 3 meals each day of soup., salt, and 400 grams of grain.
3. The prison was receiving approximately 25 persons each month and releasing
approximately 65.persons each month. An average of two persons were dying
daily in the prison.
5.
The prison employed fifty jailers and eighty office workers. United Nations
bombardment destroyed the former prison at Yong&mmri (possibly--125-113,
39019; YD-3455)., Plyongyang. After the United Nations retreat from the
PQyongr g area, the prison was opened in Kirir ni.
In December 1.950 approximately one thousand North Korean prisoners who were
not being held on political offenses or serious economic offenses were
conscripted into the North Korean army.
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