SOVIET UNITS IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013400100005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952 *1-4^^
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Soviet Units in North Korea
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DATE DISTR. 20 Aug. 1952
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO. 25X1
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. On 12 January 1952 approximately 200 fully=-armed Soviet soldiers disembarked
from three steel boats at Songjin and went off in a northwest direction..
This unit was equipped with about 20 anti-aircraft guns, Residents of the
area stated that the Soviet unit came to North Korea laecause Chinese Communist
axid North Korean soldiers were not able to destroy United Nations aircraft.
2,. In early June elements of-an unknown Soviet anti-aircraft artillery tinit,
numbering 100 men, equipped with 11 x 107-mm. anti-aircraft guns, 1+b Soviet
cars, and.l radar set were quartered in the Sinuiju medical school.
30. On 1 June an unknown Soviet medical unit of 20 officers and 10 North Korean
nurses was quartered in the vicinity of Oryu-ri (125-39, 39-01) (YD-2922)>
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