KOREA'S CIA ROLE SEEN AS DICTATORIAL

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 15, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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OCT 1972
Ap
advises What usin:_ *articles
, mail, educa?.ed at One military
on political tili:ic Usually tlhe aca;icnly of th,~ Jc:par.c:.e Wtin-
editor knows y.hat not to rive penal Arm; th e 1'n-.ar
without the CIA man's ad- 11, he entertaia the dream
vice." eventually of unitin_, Loth Ku-
The editor alleged that joar- rcas Oyu negotiations and re
nalisis are often arrested, hold tiring as the founder of a na-
Without char e:i aild gne5 thn reborn.
tiorled, If the}r lath freely, as s_pr
I'tr many o.)servcr , to.es-
h-~ _~ err ttq..
sots, diploluats, and journal-
leased. If they are particularly fists, as well a'h opp_+sitioti
aced r in solilar`' confinement. politicians - believe that even-
plperha.}ts sent to a "mental Los- tuahy he machine that Park
Arta,"-a common practice in has created may destroy hint.
the Soviet. Union and other Since its founding in 1961 for
Communist countries. the ostensible purl o_ a of in-
Their cm people are a vc.,ti sting Coi i to t llltil-
nuisance." said a veteran re trat:on and subversion, the
porter on one of the papers. CIA 113S im ei"led its way into
leading; industries, b.,rlks, trad-
"They sometimes recommend
killing stories right on, dead- iug firms, and real estate
line. We try to argue witpl coruP snies.
than-not on political but oil CIA Nee ded Money
technical grounds. We say w "The problem was the CIA
dent have time, it's too late, needed more money to carry
Tn' the end, we have to del out its activities," said a long,-
what they say.'' time resident here. "It was
modeled originally after the
n,A t..,l ;1
fi. t r ~. man coiuei> u, 'At the age of 53, Park it)-
paper office," he said "The nears to have reached the
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of politic i repression actually
b( .,, w (']l I,.. `Uri. tie &A Se-
cret contacts between North
SEOUL, Korea, Uet. 14 - The. year,
CI.' is evcrv\ 1 re. While the re 't.ac had al-
Ws in the nc , spapcr offices, v, ays been noted for its toar h.
on the calnpuse;. in big lust- police techniques, the level of
ness--maybe in t; e w'trni~ of 1 anxiety began reaching its
ym d hotel room. 1 highest pcal> in h971 with a
Not the Au1'ric --n CIA. Inc 'presidential election in vilrich
Ke _catl Contra] Intelligence Pat-k's main opponent, Kim
Agency, the i l:n .rm ',h the Dai Jung, shocked almost
strength and security of the everyone by winning 16 per
regime of Prestdcnt Chung cent of the vote.
Hee;Park. "Now none of the papers
The Korean CIA is so power- may report my speeches,"
ver=haired, wealthy Lee Hui National Assembly. "The CIA Preioident i'ark last Dec. 6 is-
Rak, could ncgaliate and sign 1 is paying off spies in illy own sued an "emergency declara-
the: July 4 conhnninique in party and arresting people for tion," and the National Assein-
which South and fsorW Korea supoorting lac. Ti:ere is no by two wicks later passed an
agreed to . bury their differ- ; more democracy in Korca." "emergency powers" bill at a
enebs by talking rather than 1st Sign of t isruntent post-midnight session attendee]
fighting.
Others Faced Arrest
o
rs
If anyone else had siined
such a. document, according to nationwide discontent, culmi-
+ -'-1 riots late last
~ti
i
n g
n
c analyst; and l ocal. n
diplomatic the CL'e v ould ; ear against military training
have arrested him for spying, ' h n?ratns. 't'he riots inevitably
betraying the n;.tioral cause, ; ?` oecl memories of n-tuch
c}cnlonstl ttions
and sellingUllt to like openly, wore violent a
Lee IN It ]: may not ]lave c eca.de before. resuhin in the
supplanted 1' 0sic:cllt Park as ~-verthroww of the previous re-
dietato-
b
`i
y ltrc n,
llg,
:ime led
the nations strong man, as
Under the bill, Park has the
autli n ity to issue decrees con-
trn'fing wages, t? sue, prod tie-.
Owl, collective bargaining-as
well as the press. In fact, howw-
ever, Park rarely finds it nec-
essa l.y to invoke these powers.
all internal security function
that made it entirely different.
CIA officials needed much
more money than formally al-
located under the national
budget."
So the CIA grew into the
nation's richest agency 'I'd
biggest employer after the De-
fense Ministry. from a
sprawling headquarters shield-
ed by tall trees and barbed
wire fences, it spends million:
of dollars on tht_ntsanes of op.
erdtlves in every major pri?-
val' business and every gov-
crnment office, major or nli-
"The CIA operate, without nor.
ex If noverlnnent critics cannot
al sanction at all
to
an
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t
y
con ! some Gran s al N, but he . Llal' syngalaall
arc, saying that Iilalue11 It diplomatic source write or steal: publicly as they
fairly ra- please, they do not hesitate to
raks as Anlnber Twowo. here. 'It has su much e
cttarl' Ignore] of I ; `Ixlo regime can stay in power ta', urivatcly--on the under-
Former sc legal 1 lower that it's not paces
Park's staff hc~ appears to to e thrn 10 lei's, recalled nary to issue decrees. it can standing that "Or names All > - I J n,0tta c t. _ .._?a ;- r c)"., nn-
} . , cvntis
of t i"t l)c, otter banned or table exceptio.l was a Proles,
de ille~_;ally."
of the presidia. in stlEling any p },enl
accord tint minister who was Ordered
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sis
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The p t ital. In a period of 10 not to talk to this correspond-
even mild dissent- in? to jouinmiists and polio-
l-
1*tears the mount tins and rig clans here, Park probablS> eat after having agreed by te,
sent a lc united de nnt.atiwonal ants to front pre- in , hopes ch"nge then sl,a_le.> ioch t: s to pet 1 1ctu; tc his owl ephonc W meet for an intel?-
the society is more and
1 at least t'1ew?]
talks with the cnimy, (,X- ~,,,
j t
plnuhed a professor, form of dictatorship
more to monied, Observed i Doom Inevitable
who asked thru the 1.170.
an editorial writer on one of Constitution Amended "This govemnrncnt cannot go
that his 'Kane n;- It used for
yei said a prow.nor,
the city's l on a d i n g dailies. Limited by the constitution uu forc `'s.
feat, of arrest and que.,tioain
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1}y the CIA. `'Ile lldllhs Mat I ' T ........ r, I i , I C ..rros,icd
en as
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to only one four-year terra, he w
had it amended in 1939 to ena- i would soon hecenle "president
Ill' . a :lust hill; will provide L blc hint to run again for his
the 'torch with an 'tdya0\ Ic alist, t no a1 o lectures at. a I third Win last year. 14) lift
the
the. laths." `' university, he meant the cep clans now expect. hirn to have.
Reprcy0~ pal@[~' t!>~lRelI tral overi,ment in ;cnei al- I t -
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President L'ark`s campaign
Kim's surprising showing in only by members of Park's
the 1971 election was just the own p...iy.
fi
t
f a number of signs of Powers Listed
for life." The proles,-:or cited
festerin unchecked opprn'i-
lion to CIA "police slate - tac-
tics as one of several factors
that may undo the regime.
continuc
 ' 4~'C/ 11
r " Frm AMERICAN SOLDIERS who work
With them 'in Vietnam speak re-
spectfully of the "ROK Marines."
Technically, ROK indicates their
place of origin--the Republic of Ko-
rea (South Korea); But the Amer-
icans. utter the term as if it were
"Rock," and as though it referred to
their physical ,conditioning and the
state of their sensibilities: as soldiers
they are brutal, licentious and they get
.results. Militarily, they are trusted by
the American high command, which-
in the current fighting-has 'assigned
them the responsibility of keeping the
vital An Kile Pass open and preventing
South Vietnam from being split in half.
Some 37,000, of these troops are
presently engaged in South Vietnam.
Referred to pretentiously.as "allies,"
their involvement is said to arise from
ideological commitment to the cause
of freedom, national self-interest, or
some other self-serving platitude. Iar
fact, they are latter-day Samurai, hired
guns of the-Orient, who have sold their
services to Washington for the dura-
tion.
. To" be specific, the normal salary of
'a ROK army private is $1.60 a month.
But if' that private elects to serve in
Yietnarn, he can earn 23 times that
amount, or $37.50 a month. In one
day, he earns almost as much as he
would have made in a whole month
had he remained in his homeland-
by James Otis children.'Kids of two, three, or even
Activities in RAND Jntervicws," at}d five or seven years weren't VC. They
thereby made also burned the paddy and the people's
public what the Amer- houses. They burned the cow pens and
ican government has known for at least
six years. The 1966 document is re- the animals inside too. Cows are cer-
plcta with these stories ,of barbarity tainly not VC!" (from a refugee) .
which Americans have learned how to The introduction to the documeht
talc in and ignore: notes that. "no effort has been made to
O "When they came to the VC-con- ascertain the veracity of the statements
trollocl areas . . . they raped the women made by the interviewees." And AFS
in those areas. There were times .they quotes former RAND analyst Itiiely}n
killed the women after they had raped Gurtov as saying that the report was
them. I heard just re~cntly women a draft circulated for comments .. .
were raped and killed. The people were as opposed to a published study." It
so frightened of the Korean troops, would be a mistake to surmise, how-
so
didn't dare to stay in their homes ever, that this report outlines the full
but moved away." (from a National extent of the U.S..government's infor-
Libcration Front deserter) ? , motion about South Korean murders
b "...only 50 villagers still lagged ' in Vietnam. On the contrary, Amer
behind. Most of them were women lean officials have received at least
children and elderly people. The Ko- three other major reports on the sub-
children
rean soldiers rounded them up in one On January 10, 1970, A. Terry Ram-
place. The people th6ught that they bo a graduate student at the Univer-
were to be evacuated to the GVN-con sity of Hawaii, told the New 'York
trolled areas by helicopters. . . The Times that lie had reported the extcn-
Koreans suddenly pointed their guns at slue killing of. civilians by South Ko-
the crowd and opened fire. Only two roan troops to U.S. Army officers in
babies of two and three survived. They Vietnam in 1966; but the infornurtioil
crawled on their mothers' bellies." had been suppressed. Rambo and two
(from a refugee)
colleagues, Jerry M. Tinker and John
.b " . when the Korean troops D. Lenoir, were researchers for Flu-
came, they called all the old women man Science
R
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(
sa SR), Inc.,
nd children down in the trenches to McLean, Virginia, on a refugee inter-
come up. Then these people were told view project for ? the Pentagon's Ad=
to sit in circles. Afterward, the Ko-
courtesy, to' be sure, of the American rean troops, machine-gunned them."
taxpayer. The middleman of this op- (from an NLF prisoner)
eration is the government of South a "Everybody agreed that the Ko-
Korea; which receives a kickback of ' reans were barbarous.. They went on
well over $300 million per year for t;.
service.
Such ? "allies" are to mercenaries
what a "protective reaction raid" is to
an unprovoked strike and what an "in-
cursion" is to an invasion-namely,
the same thing. . '
For some time now, persistent re-
ports have linked these mercenary Ko-
realis to brutalities in. Vietnam which
would make Rusty Calley blush. In
'June, the Alternative Feature Servicg,
(AhS) of Berkeley, California released
a heretofore secret study by the RAND
vanced Research Projects Agency.
Rambo took the atrocity information
to American officials in Vietnam. I-ic
briefed a "group of ranking American
officers in Saigon about the report."
The 'result: Rambo was "ordered by a
general officer of the MACV [Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam] staff
to cease: investigating the Koreans-
and no mention of it was to be made
in our reports."
The Rambo team prepared two re-
ports, one without atrocity informa-
tion, one with it. This was done, ac-
cording ?to. Tinker, because they "knew
that if our report contained anything
about murders it would be classified
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operations without interpreters going
algng. They killed at random without
distinguishing between the rights and
wrongs. Some people said it was be-
cause the VC mixed' themselves with
the villagers, and thus the Koreans
couldn't help. making a mistake. I don't
think their reasoning was right. I don't
 I' STATI N'
March liI d For Releas Q1W $5t o , ;~
omer, v, !c Fill
between 15 and 25 per Cent of their' S''OC} at'eat'- is attl?ihutable to S!1re sonid lit}'el? SnitCh atrytni'ig off a Shelf-.1';lth a cart she had
"little Old ladies" wilo borrow them and "forget" to return them. been using for nearly ihrec years. She hall. }:ept it i~ell poli_,hed
But pro{essionals operate, corralling herds of carts, which they and the v;heels oiled rnd had been using it as her personal
sell in a black market, many. of them to smaller independent properly for all sorts of errnds.
rlarkets at bargain prices.
:13ising -cart 'thefts have led s'apermarlccts to Sni cst in a "When we tool: the cart away from her, as politely as we
number of mechanical. devices designed to prevent carts from could, she was vQcy disappoir:ted. She told us that, for a year, site
being removed from stores, pied they Lave created a new ' had used the cart from atlother supermarket, but that it hadn't
industry, the cart return service. been nearly is satisfactory."
It was the Cart Return Service Company of Los An eles11
/A hat led the raid on the Burbank lot. The company, o;=;nod by
Tung San Kim and 'is wife, sally, has been in busu:less for
five years. Starting with one pickup truck, they now ]lave 13
a by. They charge their?lnor.,~ thett 190 stpernl_uket customers
$G.50 a pickup; The carts are worth] $30 to X10 each.
The raids led to the conviction of Joseph N. Stay, who had
leased the lot, oil five counts of 'grand theft of shopping carts.
Stay.i?egarddd himseff as a competitor of Cart Return Service and
]charged supermarkets for retrieved carts. But his trial brought
out evidence that Stay found the carts in hard proximity to
supermarkets parking lots. He was fined. $1,000 and put on
? probation.
IItON1CALIX, it. was Stay who gave Mrs. Rini ihs idea of ?
getting into the business, when site saw Will on a television talk
show discussing his business.
.'fly husband has a doctorate in economics amid worked for.
the Central hrtelligence Agency in South hotea,'' Mrs. Kin' said. ?
":Fitt be had to work as a bus boy }sere because of his poor.
English. When I heard about the cart problem, Lthoug}lt, `wlly
not"? everybody laughed- at us but we bought a truck veith .'250
down and werc able to pay it off in three weeks."
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