BACKGROUND INFORMATION: NUCLEUS OF SOVIET INFLUENCE IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006600590010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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OBJECT Background Inforw tions Nucleus
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in North Korea
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rIIBITF'D IW LATI,. EEPRODUC7I0)I OP THIS POGO IS PROEIEITED.
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The initial combat success of the ,7orth Coe can armies in the invasion of the
=:.pu7~1 is of : Brea may be attributed to a group of fanatical Soviet-I orean Co
munists, highly tralmed for combat., These men are elements of the original
: 1 n .song guerrillas vrho retreated into the USSR when they were dispersed by
he Japanese in 'Manchuria in 19h.ln
Approximately l 800 Korean guerrillas ~ ere assembled in 'Khabarovsk in the l~-at
ri ritrT; of 1941 arid., after screening, were assigned for training in the USSR as
follows: 30 to the military academe, 50 to officer candidate schools., 500 to
fignal school, 200 to the air force, 1,,800 :"or cultural worker training, and
500 to sTCO school. '.'os b of these men were graduated from their respective
3ehools throughout the USSR in July 194344 '"Fite majority were then sent to the
Kazakh and Kirgiz S SR and later in the year were assinr:ilated into Soviet arrl-
?nr.its fighting against Ge: arby. On 20 Uay 1945, appro:dmatoly 4000 of these
,,oreanq were transferred from Germany to tho SoT:iet. 25 Army in the Far F,,ast,,
3,: ',ljmetirne early in 194.3 KIN Ii sting died, and hi synme and power were transferor c
11o his nephew, KIU Som. chu, the present .KI!` Il-so ,
It. ':ost of the 4000 Korean troops cane to North ;.urea;, mostly
to Piron ritnga with
he Soviet 25 Army or as elements of the ITKiD troops,. ,,ithixr a few months af..
=nor their arrival in kugunt and Septeyrber iC,45 the Kcr ?eans :sere in civilian
l other and working throughout :;orth l orea rift Ccrarriu~aisi propaganda and t he o
1;anization of Communist cells,
This group subsequent: became the eontrol.l._i_nL; nucleus within the :;or th Korean
_:ibor Party and the general staff of the do:.Yth Korean Peopleas 1,rir wren that - r
-'armed in 194? All the rternbers of this grc,up were motibers of the Ct.inese Corgi
rat:rvrist Party and a few of the elite wore a3L o taken into the Soviet Communist
Party (VKPb)
The field grade officers belonging to this group were informed of the plans for
the invasion of South Korea by at least early June 1950.
Some of the memb ers of this clique (number and :L(iertiti.e:. undotermina d) are bf--
.3.s.eved to have been captured b UN forces ,..
CLASSIFICATION CONFIlYN's A,L
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the Uniteck-p-qPt"MaNd For
Next Review Date: 2008
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of Soviet Influence NO. OF PAU^Ec~
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THIS IS UNEVALi.)f TED INFORMATION
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