DETACHMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY IN HWANGHAE AND KYONGGI PROVINCES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COXFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
of the Waistry of Soci 1 Security'
itwargilae and KYonggi Provincee
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installations of the _North Korean Ministry of Social Security Ikaughae
.Province I m1d.40arch 1952 included the follwing:
Provincial hevitvartere, in an orchard 2 miles east of Vangju (125417, 3800)
(Y044283). Senior Colonel TI Sting.sik (2620573/484) was chief of the
RTfTanshae WS,
County headquarters of the Mt5S were the following:
Koksan (126.40? 3$41i1) (8,T4-9795).?
Man (326.22, 3842) (B11.7186)0..
Stn9Sye 026,i,32; 38030 (BDP8564-) ...-
KilnajZin (26.11. 38,09) (BT.5326).
Saliing (1264a0,, 38442/) (EN5359),
Plygngsan (126.,.26, 384.16) (B1,4538).
yaribeek,kiza (117259.9 3.;56) (Y9 4202
ChterY5nE (3254.313'ue7P Cfc- 531,
ry6ksong (.12.5,37, 38.210 (n.21045).
(10 Anat (25-3o, 38.30) Cf0.1864-).
i. 11 thlyl (125.12, 30,-31) (ro09265)
12 ch n. (125430, 38,021) (Ye184T)4
13 SQ,11gbft (125008p 38.22) (XC.8648),.
.14. : ebaxigyon (125...06, 38 .a5 ) (Xc 48435 ) .
15 ongjin (1254,22, 8756) (0443801)-
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c. Other headvarters were in the cities of Tiw5a ejul Ifir.511:p'o,? and
Sinmak (126-14p 38.-25) (BT05855)0
Training centers for intelligence agents in ftangbae Yrovince were at 1Wangju?
eju;Mamch?6n0J8n (126023, 38-20) (BT07346) Bariwonp and Vinbaslc.. Pante'
at which agents were being .Picked gp as they returned through the lines Were
atKUmch'.6n (126..29; 38.09) CaT.8025), raekc1306n (126.19, 3759) (BT.6407), ?
Sonegyaa.mi (12628, 334,05 (3T4813)? and Tglsong,4jong (126003, 38001) (BT0411)),
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t Provinee
Xeadquarters of the NWinKyonggi Province were at Xaesongp and in the
teadVarters there was one office for each district in Seoul. Some tra
ceAters were alao at Kaesongj and nearby points at wtich agents Were being
up as they returned thralgh the lines were at Korangp'94ri
(126-502 37-'5)) (oTP,1006) and Toj=g-dong (126-45; 3T.59) (cT.0206)?
The esong office of the Ministry of Social Security in late February 1952
Vt4 in a house facing a school building about 200 meters north of the former
Prison for juvenile delinigents in Manw61,..r1; Kaesong. Some of the officials
of the office, which tad 30 persons, Were the following:
01110E (rnu),,1 aged 30; a major, member of the !forth Koreai Labor Part7 anA, a
graduate of KIM Il-song'University? chief of the office.
CVQF (fm), aged 26; dePotY chief. (WOE, a senior lieutenant and a Labor
Party member, is alao a graduate of KIM I1-s6ng UniVeraity.
(fna), aged 23, head of the Training Section. IA% a lieutenant is also
A member of the Labor Party and a graduate of KIM I10song University*
Yl ehvang0sik (2621/2490/2784), aged 26, a member of the Labor Party. Yi is
a native of South Korea who went to North Korea after the war started.. Re is
25X1X chief of the Indoctrination Section MD1 i5 also in charge of the Operation
Section.
The duties of the office included the investigatiaa and arrest of .reaetionarY
elements in Kaesang, the detect ion of United Nation intelligence asentsvamd
the training of agents to collect information in the ROX, etWeen 25 Jaaqtry
ard 27 February 1952 the office arrested 20 persons On cbarges of' serving in
ROK police; army, or public security units, or be related to such 'reaetiOnarie
MSS agents trained by the Kaesong detachment were being given from 5 to 30 days
of instruction and briefing in early 1952, including ar,m0' on the: geography of
the ROX,, how to concluct espionage operations, and the purpose of such operations
ach agent vas trained separately in a separate room, and was not permitted to
go -outside the house. Six agents, two of them women, were being trained on
21' FebrIlaYY 1952. The agents, who infiltrate throUgh the lines a refugees,
were being instructed to secure information on the following sUbjects:
a, Reactionary groups in Seoul.
b. Areas in whichmdmes have been laid.
c. Materiel depots.
d. Location of guE batteries; tanks and other weapons.
Strength and dispoa.ition of ROK army and police units.
The agents were also being given poison to place in the food supplie0 of high
officials; Police, arid miliA-Ary forces. They were told that should the peace
negotiations fail, the 'North Korean army 'was completely prepared to Iritiate
a general offensive and overrux1 all of the ROK.
25X1A 1 ennime-slt? The reference is pr6bably to QVCE ManAlong, a, major who
rae c lief of the cbment of the late 1951, according to
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