NORTH KOREAN MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY: OPERATIONS, SCHOOLS, LOCAL DETACHMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Operations, Schools, Local }fie ac -rments
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rah 3-952
: hovt 8") percent of the operatoc~n .i lini:;E of comuuza.icatic : rhich -,aa be
n- s bli.s' a 'bq , s. tarts of tY,.e North rs:or, ;t .r Qt,z.te SeCLt ity 1 ? tae:"; a
r~ zv ez e Usr up eed the end of 1-951
o it were be s Infiltrated
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cc" ;. ipzle. through the lines ciisguisc d as rc-b g ,es, but
+r o ". ..e h h-a.was resat s.factory',,, odree it wan- ,a.s'~urIo 8 i.hie o 3 s up any
finite ,~ nfe F ode b, caxse of the sii A ,rin conyS~a ti inn?: e. in, Sep 1ienS7t3r
in S II 3peraa;sonz x e e seri3usl ; affected ac n E ezzawt:
ac-ants who had been left its or rent into the 1eoul area ;rreadored ile'
Ve a r : t i.i .o t+ ct (, rn a T7E'e an a So-? ux"'o a
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CENT :i IT3TF;LL1CV1r 1 AGENCY
b18onnr4-.WoY ;:I rz up .fwL. the Social L3.&L. a'a.c.iJLw.{..i IM 2a w.gLr3r YrS .. M~v 74E.-
jic) residents. of the RCf bat: it i,ii be so etin.a befog:: they
$: ae confidence of the 110K authorities aid b` din to reorg alze the"
2. I the L'SB left Pbc it 3,;000 stay--behind agents in ong r g 11i Octobez, 195%,
and the SSE and other intelli. Wn t agencies amt into the area e ~ ,oxr
n- t 2 t att e t,
l7 O agents a and informants. These ag
,ants were g, en
by the SSB only if t Ley had first shown their aUo Lance 'io he North Korean
1~1'i? e by harming r1.?:htist ela eonts in their home toy, or village,
l a?.-o
ums ?. typically cruel measure of the North Korean gova r'mi-ynate, but tt gave
cos t iv proof of the ideology of the agent and at the sa ~: ."'Mo 5,14, Made
pure he could not defect and scurrender to the United Nations for=ces' Sores
ei, thee; a 2C 0OO agents left Pyoigysa g with other r?fa ec> for the R?OK
i 291Q, were scattered in ?various areas of south Korea.. "t cw ; vor? se dom
were wcti iti: ,s of these agents rc carted. to the IS 4; and ".t was ucpt poossi :; ,::<
to fastablish liaison routes for them. O erations as a who-lo mr' a '? ngsatia -
'aoatc y, In .ate 2951 intelligence was being collected I-.- . i)y 7 am
sorer of waa,, interrogations and from the int rro a.tion of c rtu , Un .tad
Nations intelligence agents The SSS had captured sd ; t '.!00 h .gar. is fir;a.
ne end' of mine 1952. Little information was secured from Captured
soldiers,
S sSchool and Datachment in th ,, Yonbaek Area
A traioingy school of the Ministry of Social Saa:e'u?ity In ufl ch about 150 l
and 60 women are sb.:rlsrats was at ga-ri (1.26.15. 37-57) (UT 53c3) on 17
January 1952? T4 ere ware 32 instructors at the school :;; including five women
all of whom h a ?s :ompl t ?d an eight- enth course at the llymUemg training
enter' of the Ministr7 of Social. Security. The school for s nts at i cz- ra.
'hem classes I Cctobar 1951. The course cm be co vote ; in three mantis
but usda a pralimt m-4 period of training of an adO tic,zal, three ._,onths
required. The first class was scheduled. to be graduated 1 April 1952.
4. C'tude` is at the school were recruited by the Kaeso,jg raa ra a.' of the ?bm1stry
of Sooia l Se rityt w ich field office iq :responsible for agent activity In
the S,soul arc at. All .3tud ,t s hr;.ve relatives. In Seoul or the vicin .t r The
fcMo r: ng were same of the students at the school in Jn1U r~N,,- 1952t
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ices of the Espionage Section will instruct the iudcnta on riiethods of
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^v-epte r bor 1951 the office of the N,=eh ch {f nj on (l 2 , . ?4 2O) (B 7346)
da . aac ac .t of the Ms ?: as ip fives cave shelters at the foot, of a c r ,? a:Ln
i the county. The Na nch % on3 on , r z off. a : office was I. the ea. _ :,'ael t z~
so that the activit-ier$ of the to offices Could be co sy c knsts oasi.: y , and.
cells or pr -i so ,ei :.s we also in th sheltu v ,. sd ;: ,xr tray s .
of T'ajo . PXK (Esau ! a arf- d 3Cx, - m rrabe of tie -a "at1.sr =p xr .
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" 2117")L:t IN?P1LTCE'a'CL MCENCY
TEk ~ &s of the aff : 11C t`- ded N we senio (::&p >9.. n fire al.,
Ga ': n KIM (fern) waded the ln"3p ctio.7.1 ' ecetLon of the UW t,, and cVIIcu
I.
oz o; + lleuter ants, r , ,r two lie' uts-rants. They nomad i.r. of`_thr r t iv lie. ,
toes or arrq iar~t.f~y rts~ changing frerguontly. They ware w?i, ed? =s.....# pistols-,
9 r The deta r,. ,nL in Name;l'lonj'n had placed three or four Info
village, of the county ? Suspec s were be3n,gg arrested w ether or t
as Taba : * tia3 evil xace against, them; sad . September t herc. tree.. ;I-brat 250
;i under east., The cLetaca+rtent se:,e :ted those ecaa .dered : o nt
_!.ud sent them to the HOK on espionage ,.,si`,ono, keeping t,'herz saga a'1;e -cram.
_x her natso3 ArTastees generally ae e te.. d. the i - i.cr-s, fe ?n. that
'te 2C o 3
t"a ey 61 .rd not they would be branded dtsic-al ci ti erz .
,?'ay s of tm iming, those a vents wo- 4 a dispatched to the a 0r, to i i .t cat`
labor gaups. North Core arr troops ascorted. theft to the front lines.,
the ? rincipal. route c mployed hoia7. a that through Kae nong u One spect9 after'
in. inter rogateed a-*. length and charged with confiding to neighbors that it
better to flee scratth I-Ohan endur=e tra7,ation and lack of food,
until he fell reneeless: after two 'weeks he wezz, again .nt,rrotated
;` s yr~ asci,or ose by the use of electric shock,,' One third
te. r o .tioxt was cosactuctedl by a captain who said mho e c?t would be par-
mono, because ho. had two sorts f fighting with the North Kor can ar and asked
spect to :o to the TOOK a,3 a spy for the gover ant as a.: patriotic act;
he would be rewaurded, t ho captain sai d W according to what he proth c d4 The
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r,'tr to his- Village and report on r:oaot .on yr:ies t ere.
ins him the car,tain n reed that he was too ill end t,-,,Id h.t
n
or, e-
mod prisoner pretested because of his we~ end phgrel ca , co id iti.o'A
0,. The Ckdnn zp to ', L2 ,g 3- .) ('C' 0989) detachan t of the a9 y in late
October 1951 Was
ong?;, ong . (';
IN Tao-ho C ~
::,atingt from the .former crimi.i'a,,. courts tuild.iog in the
area of the city. Chief of the detach: oxat as Major-
) ,h. a. mad 39,, a nat..vse of Ch 3.nrxa 0c he tb+a a assisted
onior Cartein I1 id !one-,al. aged I ? of Tan; i it7 ., iCmtng angg
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of t ho int~zlligence vactlo was Captain
; . in S th l roan t Provir. .., ~ xie
HH. a C + :t-chlan ~ t i aged 30$ of North Ha yong P rev: nc j
Land in charge ? - s stration was Senior Lieutenant P.nK In-gm, (Q` .
aged 24- of Gle: rya p 1o.: AU are members of the N U. There were
persons on the staf'f' of the deta.c h?r,ent,, whicd~ ~,aCoyod 7 i =kk;dita
info its in. the arose, The regular employees were any?: g >e to o:)s rve and
Investip:*te the ideo: o r of employees in various North a Korea , egoacies and
associations, and handle the i o Cant a. Thos Infor is worked under cover
s ord-Intry c= ployeet and citizens to co l.? ct inforcmtion in the area, but
.in the future s one v!Jl be used in Intel. ,A ence operations I,hhe F~D!c .
",ince the Chinn tip ?o area covers he approaches to f an `/aa , from $ he Yellow
} a, i forma is rots, complicated in organization were es'tablisho-l to check
on travellers and merchants,; some inform nts hying disguise{ art poddiers
a.of tce for
~. :.x ..c and t el rs Suep .cious persons were being, ?eu to thoa , S
interrogation r the' a informants:,
1-1x, An unus .al activity of the Chi tnan go detachment t its d roe z, of
the Cbos . `b a g Company (Chose Sangaa)5 office in the area.. sailing
vessels and to motor boats, the latter having a speed o Z f ?~o eight to ICs
Is otsk, which ? ro 4e in the harbor at Chl=,s,z p to and were t werdly under Cho.zn
Trading Comvany managenent,, were actually used by the M S in the o. i t3r. Their
movements wore directly controlled by the i ,>y, .t although ostensibly 4th e
were used, to p Ctrol th,e harbor and prevent the entry of ',_wK i.?: tali:.ir nco
a nts;, their m tin pt::rpose was to infiltrate ;SS agents into the 1,1:01i by
raovin(, them dowi the west coast:, by sea,.
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C EIMAL INTELLTCENCE IX)E CY
2. ,"her onzan C:I.tr, detect r,er t of the i.stT- of SOeiai ~ ~i ^hr in aXI zG x
952 vas in ;he ?vi.i.2 ar, hall at Y-an ;swn-dcragv .: onss an 39-1,D) (cu
tiD:iti ? Z dnb ? rr~ qap lwy e? ae '; Tic``. ' e i_r 1'
I e Un > i1
: of of ..hc E e;ht.iaxn Section; d Captain PAN Cot c4*1
e i tef of the intelligence Section..
j aF- the Woncara de c} nt Tema pri ,ri ly interested . recv . n:
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