Camp #2 Annex

[Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net>]

John,

Naylor-Foote died several years ago, 1989 I believe.  As a matter of 
information,
Naylor-Foote was with the OSS in China during WW2 and conducted several
special operations.  That fact and that he spoke Chinese were two items he 
wanted to keep from his captors.  He was apparently successful but those 
who knew him
well before he was captured and then talked to him afterward said he had become
paranoid.

I was aware that Harry Ettinger was at Camp #2 Annex. Fascinating story with
a lot of still untold. Analysis indicates the North Koreans were attempting 
to set
up a double operation and used Ettinger as bait, albeit not to his 
knowledge at the
time. During September 1951. Task Force Kirkland, 8th Army G-3 
Miscellaneous Group, the east coast partisan-intelligence operation, landed 
a 50-man guerrilla force, codenamed "BIG BOY, in the Kumgang-San (Diamond 
Mountain) area. Within a short time, radio traffic indicated the force had 
been decimated by North Korean counter-guerrilla forces and only a few 
survived. There was a request from this group to be extracted but agent 
reports from the area said the extraction request was a trap so the alleged 
survivors were told to go to ground and they would be resupplied by air -- 
which was done on a more or less regular basis. CCRAK then set about trying 
to figure out how the use this compromised unit to their benefit so at that 
point everything about BIG BOY came under control of CCRAK's 
security/counter-intelligence section.

This is where the compartmentalization which existed at that time set up a 
disaster waiting to happen down the line. Communications with BIG BOY were 
directly with CCRAK, not with 8th Army G-3 Miscellaneous Group, 8086th AU, 
who, at that point in the war were under 8th Army, not CCRAK and were 
conducting all partisan and special operations. (The Miscellaneous Group 
and all personnel were absorbed by CCRAK 10 Dec 1951.) Between Sept. 1951 
and when CCRAK took command and control of 8th Army G-3 Miscellaneous 
Group, almost everyone with Task Force Kirkland had either rotated or been 
transferred to other, more active partisan operations on the west coast.

More importantly, the few old timers still around were unaware that BIG BOY 
was considered compromised while the only ones at CCRAK Headquarters who 
knew were those in the security/counter-intelligence section so when 
Kirkland received a message from BIG BOY in late January 1952 saying they 
had a downed U.S. Navy pilot who was sick and needed evacuation, wheels 
started turning at CCRAK to get the guy out and, because of 
compartmentalization, those with the security/counter intelligence section 
didn't know about it since this was considered a "special operation."  The 
end result was Task Force Kirkland was selected to get Ettinger out and at 
the same time establish "face" contact with the partisans.  After Capt.
Joe Ulatoski was injured while preparing for the mission, Lt. Naylor-Foote 
went in
on the Navy helicopter, which crashed and everyone was stranded.  At this 
point the
North Koreans tried to continue setting up the "double" operation but by 
then someone who knew what the real story came forward and everything was 
scrubbed.
There is a lot more, as there is with the death of Leo Samual Adams-Acton, 
but this should fill in a few blanks.

Regards

Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523
Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
Life Member:  Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
Web Site:  http://www.korean-war.com
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