KOREAN OFFICERS AND TECHNICIANS IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005200050007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Seca. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
SECRET-U.S.OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Hungary/North Korea REPORT
SUBJECT Korean Officers and Technicians DATE DISTR. 29 October 195+
in Hungary
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The first group of 17 Korean officers under the command of Captain KIM Song-Ku
arrived at Veszpr?eii, Hungary, in September 1953. They were convalescents from the
Hungarian R&kosi Matyas Field Hospital in North Korea.
2. A second group of 25 commissioned and non-commissioned officers arrived in November
1953 and proceeded to KaposvAr. These too were convalescents.
3. A third group of 1a. df 'icers: arrived in December 1953. This group, was made up of
radio technicians. These officers received lodgings in one of the villas in the
Gellerthegy area of Budapest. They were to supervise a large order of field radios
and morse sets which had been placed with the Standard Works by the North Korean
Government.
A fourth group of 10 persons, also radio technicians arrived in March 1954 and had
been attached to the Orion Factory for the purpose of supervising a contract placed
by the North Korean Government. They had been accommodated in two large apartments
on Pozsonyi utiBudapest'Vo
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