ATIS Interrogation Report

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65-00756R000600170003-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 21, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

Approver Release 2001/08/27: 41756ROO0600170003-5
*ARMY Declass/Rel Instructions On File*
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ATIS Interrogation Re,)ort
of 21 July 1947
1301032; 1-282; 00032; #20
607 CIC, SUB DET UKn
EAF AG REG +2824, No. Korea
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The Russians 'have established the f*Y0NGYA1TG = WON
(Espionage Training Institute) in Chiwee Ri, Chime aka, Pyongyang ITamdo.
The institute was open on 15 October 1945.
Qualifications for entrance: Applicant must be a high-school
graduate and bearer of recommendation from the Chairman of Provi ncial Labor
Party of North Korea.
Term: Six-month term of training.
Graduates: Five hundred persons were graduated from the institute
at the end of the first term (15 Oct 1945 -15 Mar 1946). The sedond term
(15 May - 15 October 1946) saw the number increased to 1,500.
Schedule: 0600 Reveille, 0800 Breakfast, 0900-1200 Political Science,
1200-1400 Military Training in fire arras, 1400-1500 Lunch, 1500-1600 Rest,
1600-200 Supper, 2100-2300 Study, 2300 Sleep.
Organization: Military Affairs Department - 3 battallions, let and
3rd trained for infantry. 2nd trained as pilots and radio Lien. Political
affairs Department - teaches Russian political system. Rear Deoa.rtment -
teaches intendance.
Equipment: Few airplanes to teach students how to disassemble and
assemble planes. 7 trucks, 2 autos, 2 auto-bicycles (belonging to Rear
Department) ; great number of rifles, 72-round automatic rifles, machine guns,
grenades.
Miscellaneous: 90 women in the 3rd'term of graduates. Students
wear Jap army uniforms and have swords and rifles. Students are quartered in
separate buildings at the institute. Receive 100 yen monthly. Training is
top secret. Persons ib charge are Koreans who have Russian citizenship. In
charge of Military Affairs Department is Lt. S~HI TAE SAN of Red Army. A Red
Army pilot is CO of the 2nd Battalion. On 3 October, 1946 election day, three
airplanes were planning to fly. One had engine trouble, one crashed, only
one finishing the flight.
ZJY 140, 25 Sept 1949
Immediately after the war, the Communists in North Korea established a
Farmer's and Worker's school at Sadong, Pyongyang, commonly called the Sadong
School/ The institut&on was originally devoted to Communist indoctrination and
refresher courses and to training for political officers in the Army.
In March 1947 the school changed its name and was reorganized as the NORTH
KOREAN CENTRAL POLITICAL STAFF MIBETtS SCHOOL. The student body was divided. Part
were transferred to the NORTH KOREAN LABOR PARTY SCHO-'L at Pyongyang, and part went
to the Pyongyang School at Chinnampo 9, Now the SECOND CENTRAL POLITICAL SCHOOL in
Pyongyang for the Army, and the remainder stayed at Sadong.
G-2 Su{mary # 100, April 1947
971st CIC Detachment in Korea
A secret espiona~?e school in Pyongyang,the capitol of
North Korea, was established at an unknown date. Instructors
are reported to be Red Array Officers of Korean descent.
C arses are of 6 months duration and the first course or term ended OeteiaeF-191F6.
May 1946 with an enrollment of 500, The second term ended in October 1946 and had an
enrollment of 1,500.
After graduation the trainees become leaders of political organizations near the
38th parallel. The best qualified are dispatched to South Korea for the purpose of
Espionage and terroristic activity.
An applicant for admission must be a high school graduate and the bearer of a
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