MEDIA ARTICLES RE: NORTH KOREAN ARMS TRADING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200170079-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: May 10, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Trade in Troublemaking
HEN Ceylon's leftist government
was recently confronted with a
massive insurrection by a group of Mao-
ist dissidents known as the People's Lib-
eration Front, it clamped down imme-
diately on one important source of the
trouble: it accused the North Korean enm-
bassy in Colombo of complicity in the
uprising, ordered the embassy closed,
and expelled IS North Korean diplo-
mats. By last week, after a month of
fighting throughout, the island, several
hundred Ceylonese were dead, but the
government was slowly gaining an up-
per hand against the insurgents.
'I'lie involvement of the North Ko-
reans in the Ceylon insurrection dra-
matized the extent to which guerrilla
training has become an international
activity. Today, with the help of a for-
eign "scholarship" and perhaps a forged
passport. a young, aspiring revolutionary
from any of several dozen countries
may travel halfway round the world
to learn the use of rifles and machine
guns, the making of Molotov cocktails
and the art of political kidnaping.
'Chen, after several months or even
years of training, he returns to his
home country to put his education
into piactice.
Almoi every region of the world can
qualify today as either a target of terror-
ists or a raining ground. Even the tran-
quil fields of The Netherlands have
served as a mock battlefield for a group
cf Indonesian separatists seeking inde-
uandenci. for the South Moluccas Is-
large-scale exporters of insurgency. The
five:
NORTH KOREA was recently accused of
training Mexican as-, well as Ceylonese
terrorists (TI\IE, April 19). According
to the Mexican government, 50 young
Mexicans using North Korean passports
traveled to Pyongyang by way of the So-
viet Union-a clear.'indication to the
gional trouble spots. the Cubans hnve'~
lately been preoccupied with economic
problems at home.and have been inhib-
ited by the fact that leftist movements ii.
many Latin American countries -are
splintered.
ALGERIA. More than 20'"national liber-
ation fronts" and assorted movements
maintain offices or representatives in Al-
giers, which has won the reputation of
being the '*home of revolutionaries."
These groups include At-Fatah, the Viet
Mexican government that the Russians Cong, the Angolan resistance movement
were in on the deal. The North Ko- (~t.P.L.A.) and the Black Panthers,
reans, moreover, gave members of the whose'local office is presided over by El-
Mexican group $25,000 for travel ex- dridge Cleaver. There is even a rep-
penses and the recruiting of additional resentative for a group known as the
guerrillas in Mexico. Movement for the Autodetermination
To some extent, the North Koreans and Independence of the Canary Is-
have concentrated on waging terrorist ate' lands, which have belonged to Spain
tacks against South Korea.. but' they have since the 15th century. "Catholics go
also managed to train 2.000 guerrillas.. to Rome," remarked an Algerian of-
from 25 countries; 700 foreign rebels are facial, "Moslems to Mecca, and revo-
now believed to be in residence in ten lutionaries come to Algiers."
special camps. Training lasts from six to The Algerians provide military train-
18 months. Foreigners as well as Kore- in- facilities, however, for only a few
ans are taught taekwotulo? the local vex major organizations, such as the feda-
sion of judo and karate;, .and. are put yeen and the Angolans. For the most
through such rigorous training as nun- part, Algiers is a base for propaganda
ping five hours at night, sometimes and political agitation rather than guer-
through rough mountain terrain, shout- ? rilla training.
dering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, run- CHINA has emphasized the training of
ping, running," in fact, is the training insurgents from elsewhere in Asia
slogan. -Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indo-
CUBA has trained some 2,500 Latin nesia, Ceylon, Japan and the Philippines.
American guerrillas during the past dec- The Chinese program, which currently
ade. In addition, the Cubans have sent involves 100-150 students per year, is
military instructors to Algeria and to one of the toughest and most fervent.
the Congo-Brazzaville. Despite Fidel Most sources agree that, while the Rus-
Castro's tough words two weeks ago signs provide strong ideological and the-
about aligning himself with the "rev- oretical training for warfare in the in-
binds; Basque nationalis s C~ppI Itionar 1~,fhe definite future, the Chinese program is
ixc northern Spain ann' Mt u t rt{r `fgl ? ~~y,4~ttf~'F'aHi~pH I Lehi`- ir1#e~00~ ~~~R lga ~~ vard more im-
France. Many countries dabble in terror- curtailed in the post-Che Guevara per'- mediate action, and is extremely rig-
istn, but live in particular have become od. While still capable of exploiting _re- orous. Training takes place under
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deliberately primitive conditions; if guer-
rillas visit the cities at all, they do so
in the guise of students or tourists.
One measure of the fierce hostility be-
tween China and the Soviet Union is
the fact that both countries are train-
ing members of several tribes that
live along the Sino-Soviet border. In
addition, the Chinese provide military
training in Tanzania for several groups
of black freedom fighters from South
Africa, South West Africa, Rhodesia,
Angola and Mozambique. They also sup-
ply small arms and ammunition to
the fedaycen.
SOVIET UNION. Western intelligence agen-
cies say that ;Moscow's Patrice Lunntm-
ba University is a prime recruiting
ground for Soviet intelligence. The uni-
versity's student body consists of 3,000
foreign students, mostly from the non-
Communist developing nations, and
1,000 Russians. Its vice rector is a major
general in the KGB secret police; his job.
on campus is to screen out "undesirable"
elements and watch for prospective re-
cruits. If a student is among the several
dozen chosen for guerrilla training, he
receives special courses and favors and
may discover that he has become irresist-
ible to pretty Russian girls. Later he may
be "farmed out" to North Korea, Bulgar-
ia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or else-
where for further instruction. When he
finally goes home, he remains under the
guidance of a resident KGB man.
The Soviets prefer to remain in the
background, but they are deeply in-
volved in the financing and control of
programs in Cuba, Algeria, North Ko-
rea and among the fedayeen. The re-
cent Mexican case revealed how close-
ly the Soviets are working ? with the
North Koreans. The Ceylon civil war
demonstrated that the Russians stilt
maintain a two-pronged policy of giv-
ing official support to relatively moderate
leftist governments, while at the same
.time subsidizing local subversive op-
position movements. Accordingly, the
Russians have delivered six ~tiGs with
pilots and ground crews to help the So-
cialist government of Prime Minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike put down the
insurrection. At the same time, they
have given arms to the Ceylonese reb-
els through an organization called the
Ceylonese-Soviet Friendship Society.
Another group of Soviet proteges
who recently made news were the Turk-
ish students involved in the kidnaping
of four U.S. airmen, two months ago.
The students, it turned out, had re-
ceived training from Soviet instructors
in Syria. The Soviet' "diplomat" who
had Overseen their activities in Turkey
was subsequently transferred to-of
all places-Ceylon.
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By Paul Scott
Washington, May 14: North Korea has become the number one hatchery and distributor
of the so-called people's guerrilla wars and terror for Communist China and the Soviet Union.
While Moscow concentrates on gaining superority over U.S. in strategic nuclear
arms and Peking seeks to improve its image with diplomatic ping-pong, North Korea has
taken on the mission of exporting communist revolution and espionage.
American intelligence authorities say privately this new assignment of missions
within the Communist world tool: place after President Nixon's Guam announcement in
July, 1969, of his policy for a gradual U.S. military withdrawal from the Asian mainland.
The new subversion role of North Korea began to show its head throughout the
world in recent weeks in such diverse locations as Ceylon, Mexico, Romania, South Vietnam
and South Korea. It will pop up in other countries before the end of the year.
North Korea already has trained more than 5,000 foreigners of various nationalities
for guerrilla warfare and other forms of subversive activities since 1969 and exported them to
more than 30 countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The scope of the North Korea trained-guerrillas is growing daily and now begins to
pose a threat to the security of developing countries all over the world according to a
Central Intelligence Agency estimate now being circulated within the Nixon Administration.
This CIA document points out that the North Korean Communists execute this
aggressive scheme under the cover of ostentctious legitimacy. The operations are being
financed and coordinated with espionage groups from both Moscow and Poking.
The North Koreans first secure a bridgehead in a country by establishing diplomatic,
consular trade relations, or sending cultural missions and journalists. Then they proceed in
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Thus, most of the North Korean Communists' establishments abroad are the hotbed
insurgent activities aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government of the host countries.
Mexico's exrul sion of Soviet diplomats shed more light on the pattern of this new North Korean
subversion through diplomacy in all its shades.
TERROR IN MEXICO -- The ouster of Soviet diplomats was linked by the Mexican
government to its capture of a group of Communist terrorists who aimed to overthrow the
government and establish a red dictatorship.
Half of the terrorists who wore arrested confessed to receiving training in Pyongyang,
North Korea. They previously had studied at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow through
grants given them as part of the Mexican-Soviet cultural exchange program.
The captured i rrorists reported that the present enrollment at Lurnumba University is
.4,000 students. Since the school opened in 1960, more than 30,000 have been graduated as
trained revolutionists. Main goal of the University is to create cadres of communist-oriented
educators and technicians to send back to their own countries.
Maxician officials have alerted U.S. security authorities that at least two dozen
Americans trained in Pyongyang, North Korea, and financed by Russia and Communist China
have reentered the U.S. via Mexico and Canada in recent weeks. They are believed to be
highly dangerous.
In Ceylon, the North Korean supported subversive movement had planned the
kidnapping and asspssination of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister, as a birthday
present for President Kim I1-Sung of North Korea on April 15.
The Ceylon government, however, rot wind of the plot and rounded up those involved
beforo they could act. When those taken prisoner reported the kidnap plan was plotted in
the North Korean Embassy, Ceylon officials expelled the North Korean Ambassador and his
staff .
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In Romania last month, North Korean terrorists operating out of that country's
embassy tried to seize of American diplomatic pouch. The incident as reported to the State
Department from the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest involved ten North Koreans in two cars. They
made three unsuccessful passes at an American Embassy car carrying a diplomatic pouch from
the Bucharest airport.
A few days later the same North Korean terrorists tried to kidnap the Belgian
Ambassador Jean L. M. Adriaenssen, a strong anti-communist. Although they succeeded in
forcing the Ambassador's car to stop, he was able to escape when a crowd including a numborof
Western European tourists came to his aid.
Despite protests to the Romania government, no action has been taken against the
North Koreans. There are even indications that the Romania government may have been
involved in the kidnapping attempt.
GUERRILLA TRAINING -- The North Koreans are reported to have evolved a
comprehensive training system for subversion. One part of their training involves the mastering
of skills to destroy airports, bridges, tunnels, and locomotive engines.
The trainees are subject to hard training for eighty hours a weds. They receive 34
weeks of training a year or 2,720 hours. There are more than two field camping exercises
a year, each lasting for several weeks.
Field training consists of infiltration, raid and ambush techniques. Then there
are communications training, military engineering, weapons use, counter-intelligence,
bomb -ma-lang; politics, and methods of civil disobedience.
At least one of the persons sought in connection with the bombing of the U.S.
Capitol is believed to have gone through the guerrilla training in North Korea. This
terrorist is believed now to be in Cuba, having gone there via Canada. The North
Koreans have trained several hundred Cubans who are to be infiltrct.xF into the U.S.
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