COMMUNIST TREATMENT OF UNITED NATIONS PRISONERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900530003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
INFORMATION REPORT
ea/China
SUBJECT Communist Trcz tr.ent of United Nations
Prisoners
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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"Mm a W UN, am*-.CV or =a m rKmta:rm
millet. kaoliaan;, or corn, In theory,, ~7u actually they received aro t oon
.rand salt in about &-A the assigned qt sn ;i .i :s, dditl o l a c d ciuuld xa
obtained by ham- orin . watches, uniforms., boots, and cigaxette&,. 1No
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or bedding of fir kird were supplied, but straw vac av: ilabio,
2, 111 OK prisoners were released after a period of several mzptho (t ha,
sdlc: i:;
reporting thex: i* aeta vas released on 30 Dtacezub;l) and given the o iee '.
joining the nth Korean army.. aettling o l as civ?i1 an -; in North Korea,';
or returning tom, their homes. Most of those-, re". seed were fsr?s year 50" ex
or civilians. T.',-xy were issued certificates of Doti e -snot could be pre-,
rented on their s .y bask home in order to, obtai food ?r= 3.t: . ee mod. ~a
Villagers sty tc d that food given to released so:'_dl.ers -ia. o dedu.:ted t'rour :heir
taxation in kind.
civi ?.an emp3
by nationality a housed in barrack which accommodated about 70 men each,,
All prisoners here ghe stioned and searched every three days b to wcaa e othc
wise left to t1asawelve;.3. Each moan received a dais ration of /00 ra s of
'Whom about 700 were rae;roesy approxiY tely 3 X 00 itOK p:r; saner? mid about
W.50 was sent to a c prison c - at Z'; oktong '\125-26, 4C-36) :n or h Pryoa-g
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DATE D1ST' 3.1 I uc- 51
NO OF PACES
NO. OF EN('-"IS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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One Republic of 1oren soldier who was captured by th s Oomata:a .;a a oa. 20,
0 t : e
3. The Chinese W'16, ;,`)r t u 1 orean Comruniat t `acp3 ref er --ed.
as "l:aerated soldiers."
the gar pp:t; isoriet s
wn I -nUIVI
. Seven A ricaa, .s ware ga-p on TanVal?y 1 y ~ end w, re taza~rac d o
4v
to the .,he North Korean a ?, ..c cording to ar, ofi`ice ?
of the siorn ore= a ecurity Bureau, they were scheduled Ica be sort
Pyor r g as soon. as orders from general ii ;ads ue rters there arrived for t1la
transfer, Or-.,1 ?ebrua r,r they were sc en -p52 aka 50X1-HUM
handcarts fray ' We -A- Gate toward the Last Gate, under the taper w isio o ,
three Borth Korea . soldiers. All the Lme:ricGns appeared a der aur?l.slaec
weak from. Lard labor,,
CENTRAL INTELL!GENCE AGENCY
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During the Cea avist o `.'fensive in early an-wrYy, {1 Gi i 41:x?.:. 50X1-HUM
Co unist farces In the Yangju 127-O2, 17 h.7) area ca t.1,70d aF 3u z a e _
men and officers of the ROK army. The Chinese did not kill ate. ow .. ~.ec
prisoners but q Aestioned each man separately. After ti s "..r ?'T -cad,.. atio
released all thY , so1d?.ers but kept officers, mater L ergo uit s;
and high school ;radtuites, who, it was ruiored, would b5 sent t' Sr lw rharzf a
for Carmnunist ttidoctr:.nation, The reie;ashd so1dierL .roc s:: e 3 ~,~YeY Oaf'-'
oficates permitting them to return home.,
A staff member 7f the State Security Threau 12, Fels" u,y staff; 50X1-HUM
that an Ameri.e. n pri. oners of war were sent to ca ps in 1 cdeu, ` nahua., 50X1-HUM
and Antuz g Provinces of Manchur:i a, where they were - ut to hard In r in : 3 i '
and factories,
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