NORTH KOREAN NAVY COASTAL SECURITY ON CH'O-DO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300150001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2005/12/16 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA003300150001-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUIJECt
North Koren Navy Coastal Security on
Ch'o-do
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DATE OF INFO.
PLAN AC4WRED
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1Yf Of '1W. WS i 7S4.Of thf V $. Code, as
s*.Aded. is el~atlefl of Its o tiD}~6 .
to ee saeelpt bT us utAoiIIed > eooo If prohibited
?v law. Tt te~roduettw- of bole fdtm >e po+oiltblbd.
REPORT NO.
NO. OF PATES
z11REMENT NO.
REFERENCES
THE SOU# f e EV$WATtONS IN THIS REPORT ARE D INITlVS.
THq ' AUFRAISAL Of COt4TNN4T IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY $IN IIVIRU)
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Coastal Patrol Boats on.Ch'o-do
1. I lone steamship, the 0SU'NTr F O 1 n two .wooden potor boats
were based at osa-r (N 38-3-9.,1 724-5O c;h' o-do annd patrolled the
coastal area tround the inland. During `:he -ray the OSU?NG*H0, trdlled the
route between Ch' o-do and Sag, Tamp ? o (ZC-5627) ? Tk,e two sm~.jbos~-te patrolled.
day and night mSinly between.XC??6565 and?XC-6363.
2. Prior to the outbreak of the kcorean war, the AUNG- O~ which was Quilt it
1947, was based irk fChinnamp' o . A In'' December 1950yi.t/ wra#'moved,to, tke vicinity'
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9O-tQn steeLhulle4 ship about 65 feet ' ion,@~y~, ` feet'.Vi dmo ' snd.,17 fve't..high
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ble of a speed ofi about 7 knots. After 'the. 80MUtice the diese' !
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engine was replaced by a ste4 engine and thi steed, was i4 crease to about
10 knotd,. The whip vat equipped 'w1.th. a' radio knd a ieard ght (but no radar),
6 Soviet heavy machine gang a, and 5, :light md-chine ' gone In s ddition', the crew
of 20 bad an undletermino& nuoer of riles pistols,,'sand ms's .l
3. The two woodei,, t'pr boats, referred to as the No. 1 and the No,. 2 patrol,,.Boat,
were 35 feet long, 10, feet widpi and feet high. They were 10-ton boats.with
GAZ engines and had a speed-;of 'About' knots . Each had ,a crew of 10 men.' Equip-
went cone,iete& of,? light machine guns and an undetermined nummer of rifles..
North Kprean ;%:M,- Rftd 'Oivilian Personnel on Ch' o-do
4.' I Ian unidentified North Korean navvy unlit wit'?About 700 men
was on Ch'~o-do. The headquarters was at Sosa