KOREAN CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS--PRISONER REPATRIATION ISSUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01065A000400160003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 16, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECURITY INFORMATION
16 January 1952
M IDRANDUM FOR: Chief, Psychological Staff Division
VIA: Acting Assistant Director for Policy Coordination
FROM: Deputy Director (Plans)
SUBJECT: Korean Cease are Negotiations--Prisoner Repatriation
Issue
REFERENCE: PSB staff paper dated 18 October 1951 entitled
"Psychological Study on Repatriation of Prisoners
of War in Korea"
1. This will confirm a portion of my telephone conversation
25X1A with you of this afternoon, in which I mentioned the P5B staff paper
and told you that of PSB had promised to furnish a
25X1 A copy of this paper to us. mentioned the PSB paper 25X1A
at an important meeting in office this afternoon,
which was called on an emergency basis for the consideration of the
position to be taken by the United States on the POW repatriation
question, and the propaganda treatment which this position should
receive.
2. described the paper as having no legal status,"
by which I gathered that he meant it had not been adopted by the
Psychological Strategy Board as an approved paper. However, copies
of the paper were furnished to the Departments of S-l.,ate and Defense--
there being no indication that a copy was furnished to us. I think
we should obtain this paper and examine it carefully in the light of
more recent developments, and with a view to determinIng whether we
can suggest any additions or improvements.
3. Attached to the reference paper as Tab B, there is a list
of possible measures to be taken against the Chinese and Korean
Communists in the event of a violation by them of armistice terms
;governing prisoner return. Some of these measures are capable of
25X1 A implementation only by covert means, and I understand that 25X1 A
may have been the one who suggested these.
la.. I recommend that you alert your staff to the probability
that this already hot issue is apt to burst into flames at almost
any moment and that we should be prepared with our ideas for the
psycholo^ical handling of the various possibilities. It was inter-
esting that there was a unanimous approval at this afternoon's
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meeting of a course of action which would not allow for the enforced 25X1A
repatriation of unwilling Communist POs. Both and
spoke strongly to the point that it would seriously
undermine our moral position throughout the free world and behind
the Iron Curtain if we were to "trim" on this issue, whether in
reaction to Communist demands and pressures or in response to certain
levels of United States public opinion which would probably be dis-
posed to shout down anything appearing to place an obstacle in front of the
most expeditious return of all UN POWs. It was most gratifying to
hear the soldiers speak in these terms.
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