TERMS OF REFERENCE: IMPLICATIONS OF MAINTAINING A BEACHHEAD IN SOUTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00400R000200020010-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 19, 1950
• Content Type: NOTES

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SECRET
IAC D-9
19 December 1950
TERMS OF REFERENCE: IMPLICATIONS OF
MAINTAINING A BEACHHEAD IN SOUTH KOREA
NIE -1
1. This subject has been raised as a possibility
for a National Estimate.
2. The IAC is asked to consider whether it wishes
work to go forward on an estimate along the lines of the
attached.
JAMES Q. REBER
Acting Secretary
Intelligence Advisory Committee
SECRET
IAC -D-9
19 December 1950
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IAC-D-9
19 December 1950
TERMS OF REFERENCE: IMPLICATIONS OF
MAINTAINING A BEACHHEAD IN SOUTH KOREA
NIE-1
The Problem:
To estimate the advantages and disadvantages of holding a
beachhead in South Korea.
Assumptions:
That the United Nations Forces have the capability of main-
taining a beachhead in South Korea.
1. Military Factors
a. Strategic considerations--effect on Chinese Communist
and Soviet plans,
2. Politico-Psychological factors
a. Advantages
(Relating to: UN-US relations; USSR; China: CN
and CC; Japan; S.E. Asia-Indochina, Burma) Thailand;
Western European Allies; other non-Communist areas,
e.g., India, Iran, Middle East area.)
b. Disadvantages
(Same sq-factors as under a.)
Conclusions:
SECRET
IAC -D -9
19 December 1950
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