NORTH KOREAN ARMY (NKA) AND COMMUNIST CHINESE FORCES (CCF) IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900470008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 25, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affectln9 the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the =aplonale Laws, Title
18, U.B.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
North Korean Army (NKA) and DATE DISTR. 25 May 1955
Communist Chinese Forces (CCF) NO. OF PAGES 2
in North Korea
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
1.
two members of the NKA military police were stationed
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at the railroad station ?t Namyang (N 42-58, E 129-51) (EG6955); no other
troops were in the immediate area. An artillery unit of approximately 200
men was living in grass-roofed houses at EB50PO45 near Chuuronjang (N 41-35)
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A 129-36) (EB5003)
2. Many NKA construction troops were working in FP'yongyang (N 39-01, E 125-45)
(YD3822) on the new Ministry of Defense building. When completed, the.
building was to have three stories underground and five stories above gro md,l
Jet and propeller-driven aircraft were flying both day--and.xight over
Pyongyang.
3. Also in P'yongyang were CCF construction troops engaged in repairing a bridge
near YD 390221. About 10 canvas or straw-covered stockpiles of supplies, each_
about 30 feet long and 30 feet wide, were near the railroad stations in Sunch'on
(N 39-25, E 1-56) (YD5267), Sop'o (N 39-05, E 125-44) (YD3629), and Sainjang
(N 39-15) E 12--52); CCF tents were erected near the supplies in Sop'o and
Sainjang.
stations 0 v lout uva+-uy \'. -r -?- I s - --- , - , - - . : , a -
E 128-18) (DV4053). Approximately 20 NKA soldiers were near OnJong-nyon
(N 38-43, E 128-06) (DT2285), marching toward Kumgangwon-ni (N 38-39, E 128-00)
(DT130775). These men were carrying a heavy water-cooled machine gun, two 25X1
light machine guns similar to the Soviet Degtyarov, and several rifl.es.2,3
4, about~30 NKA construction troops were working near the railroad 25X1
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several buildings were being constructed for the Ministry 25X1
of National Defense at YD383015; in July one four-story building had
alrea four other buildings were to be built at this
site.
a new National Defense Ministry building about 100 meters long an me ers
wide was being constructed at YD383213; as of that date only three stories 25X1
had been constructed.
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at. Pone of the above-mentioned troop units was indentifiable.
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