Re: Germ war thing again

["Young Kim" <y_s_k@worldnet.att.net>]

Ed;

Your account jibes with the account given in Endicott's book and it sounds
plausible.  I have read several versions of this incident:

1) Sams and co raided a Chinese hospital
2) Koreans killed and took bodies to Sams waiting on an island.
3) Sams landed but did not examine any body - he did talk with a Korean with
"scientific knowledge"

, etc.

My gut feeling is that there was no major germ warfare but there was a
small-scale germ experimentation.

BTW, has Lt. Clark's private papers been published?


ysk


----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Germ war thing again


YS,

The raid was carried out by the Special Activities Group's Special Missions
Section with Lt. Commander Clark as OIC. Clark was promoted shortly after
the Inchon Invasion along with receiving a Navy Cross for his part in
clearing
offshore islands prior to the invasion.  Clark also received a second Navy
Cross
the "Sams" mission.  The only part the CIA played in this was funding and
special equipment.  Othewise it was an Army operation.

I believe you are mistaken about "bringing bodies back for Sams to examine."
According all I've seen, Sams did go onto the mainland and examined "live"
local villagers.  Target was chosen because it had only a few security
troops
there and because it would take several hours for a reaction force to
arrive. Sams
and Clark had already left when the reaction force showed, just in time to
fire
on the last boatload of the raiding force.  IRC -- the force lost to KIA in
this but
"claimed" killing several members of the reaction force.

Ed

At 12:30 PM 3/25/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Interesting point, Mike:
>
>Your book quotes the CIA (and Big Mac's) version of Gen. Sams' adventure.
I
>believe Lt. Clark, who commanded the CIA op, has stated that Sams landed on
>an island  -- not on the mainland as reported by the CIA.  The CIA team
>killed some folks and brought their bodies for Sams to examine.
>
>If my memory serves me right, one of the Korean participants wrote about
>this incident and his account agrees with Clark's.  My understanding is
that
>Sams wanted to go ashore but he was overruled by the local commander (Lt.
>Clark?).
>
>I suppose Gen. Sams and the CIA did their best to counter the Communist
germ
>agits.
>
>
>
>ysk
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <DasHaas@aol.com>
>To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
>Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:43 AM
>Subject: Re: Germ war thing again
>
>
>YSK!
>
>     You rascal!  Check out pps. 169-171, 195, Devil's Shadow, and see how
>long the communist claim of germ warfare in 1951 stood up after MacArthur
>sent a U.S. Army Brigadier General/Doctor behind communist lines to check
>out
>their claims of germ warfare.
>
>mike

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