NAVAL AND MILITARY ACTIVITIES ON THE WEST COAST OF KOREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000290005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,, The naval command at Chinnampo (125-24, 354th.) has moved part of its forces
to Changnyon (125-18,; 3836), Hwanghae Province, Two companies are billeted
in primary schools and the county offices at Kyomipo (V5-38., 3844). One
battalion occupied primary school buildings,, county offices,, and hotels at
Ionggtampo (1211-469 38-12)-
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2? Two 150-ton and two 200...ton patrol craft are stationed at Taechong do (121i.- t29
37-n50) and Paengnyong-do (1214-4i0, 37-58). Taechong Island has six guns
(type unspecified) installed on the two sunrxi.ts (Chunsan and Pusan)., and
there are some pillboxes (locations unstated),, The county office building and.
the whaling company offices are occupied by 150 sailors. On Paengnyong Is-
land, there are three guns on Sdpang ( 1 ) Liountain, and some pillboxes a
Three hundred sailors are billeted in the buildings of the island9s fishing
association, in the county offices., and in churches and private houses. The
island is controlled by a self-governing unit of four or five native islanders
3, Six sailing vessels stopped at Taechong-do on the morning of 15 August for
water supplies. According to some sailors from the craft,, they were from Shan-
tung., carrying ammunition. All the vessels left the same morning on a course
to the south; their exact destination was not revealed,
to ,, Yougho Island (?Yonghodo-zip 125-20, 3746) has no soldiers. Its security is
u)ide:- the charge of the island self-governing unit and the island is inspected
twice weekly by a patrol vessel from Paengn Tong-do, The head of the self-
governing unit is KONG Ilung---t y aek (-3U %I~) ,, The People's Committee is
headed by CHO ChI ll-sores with IT:: Kun-ha (-' ;5j) as deputy,,
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