RADIO P'YONGGYANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300590001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION. REPORT
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT.
Korea
Radio Pyongyang
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r'yongyang radio station was under a hill approximately 1+2 feet high at
YD-38623$.in midjAugust, 1952.1
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on 19 June 1952 Radio Pyongyang was in an underground shelter at
Kirim-ni. This location is probably YD-3821+. For sketch of location o:'
Radio P'yongyan see attachment.
StATE ARMY
1. In February 1953'Radio Pyongyang was in an underground cave from 20 to 40
meters deep in a hill at Moranpong Peak (YD-3924), Plyongyang.l This in-
stallation is also known as the Moranpong National Theater Construction. One
antenna, strung on. two antennti noi.es, was at YD-?381s.23Q. The antenna poles
were 1,4 meters high.2
United Nations on 23-24 June 1952, the electricity was cut off until. August 1952.
During this period, the radio station and the theater used their own generator,
ich produced better -dower than that from the Suiho Plant.
shell,a hit dugouts at Yangehon, bO meters east of the southern entrances.
In mid-February Radio Pyongyang and the Moranpong Theater used. electric power
supplied by the Suiho Power Plant. When the Suiho Dam was bombed by the
p
ly30 tQ'40 Radio Pyongyang employees and other civilians were killed wren
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On 214 January Radio Pyongyang was bombed by United Nations aircraft which
caused the following damages approximately seven shells caused surface ground
damage only at a point five meters south of the southern entrances! ap
roximate-
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amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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ATTACHMENT
Locption of Radio Pyongyang on a city plan map of Pyongyang (1012,500)
YD-24
A - Southern Entrances at
YD 384237
B - Western Entrance at
YD-382239
C - Western Entrance at
YD-382241
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