NORTH KOREAN 313 INDEPENDENT INTELLIGENCE UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013400130009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CDNF"IDE~""STAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
~"vrth Korean 313 Independent Tntelli.genee unit
TH 15 DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING 7HE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 799
pND 794 ~. Of THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMI SSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
~PROH IDITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
Uri~in-and Mission
the North Kt~rean 313 Inte.lligen.ce ~tnit~- was put undex' the 50X1-HUM
command of the North Korean Army Headquarters to operate as an independent
~;u3.it with 'the primary fr,a~action of 50X1-HUM`
~. e 313 ~7nit began operat~.ri.g in early March 1952 under the d1..rectivn
csf the ~"irst Bureau of the Ministry of Social Security~MSS) o After the 313
~)7nit became an ~.ndependent organizations it wary the only. unit not connected
wit.1 the ~5S whose primary function was intelligence operations
~ ~
~~rganizatiaan
2, Ih~ 3l3 Nnit is composed of five aectf.onso the Operations Section handles
the administration and pl.a,nningp the Enemy Area Operati.ona Section Dandles
operational planning and actior~9 the Examinat3.on Sect~.on Dandles. ixiterroga~
tir~sn. and reporting the ~:nspectic~n Secti?an handles- recanx)aisaance and rem
porting and the ~rai.ning Section Dandles education and. propaganda and the
training, of the agents.e
~#ecruitment~y Ina truc~tion ~ and Agent Dispatch
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~ Agent eandy.da.tes .are 8ele'cted frt~m
li~_ts a~xbmit?ted by ~ari.ous social Or`ganizatioria o ?.~'h;e agent training pex~:io
~..s 20 to ~0 days a
~ ~ T'h.e ~ base for agents is at Kaeat~ng
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DATE DISTR.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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