POLITICAL INFORMATION: PROPOSED ACTIVITIES OF WANG II-SO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600210007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 23, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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5 The KVC has long beef, kraovm as KIM II-sung Is ar r. In reality, the leader has been
KIM 11--ora (f 1 f ) , the man who arranged with the Soviets to train Korean
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troops in Siberia.
: 11E studied in Moscow. In 191+3 because he disagreed with
the Soviet plan to send the Koreans from Siberia to Europe, KIM led 70,000 of the
1.30,000 Koreans in Siberia to Manchuria. There are now about 70'-80,000 Koreans
in the KVC (Shanghai Note: Other estimates place the strength at about 230,000).
KIM Il-om, also known as PM;U Chong (characters unknown), has not, however, been
w ith the KVC since April 1946, but with the Soviet-tined Korean Communist troops
in Pyongyang. The present leader of the KVC is PAK Hyo-saga
em-Ace-commander.
6. WANG believes that Us friendship with PA I yo.-san, the anti-Soviet., pr?o Corean
attitude of most of the KVC members , their high regard of him as their for maer
instructor and the fact that the North Korean Communists would be virtually
surrounded by hostile forces all aadd up to make success of his plan possible.
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