Re: Kim Gu's Assassin, Ahn Doo Whi, was an American Agent

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@korean-war.com>]

YS,

> >>The problem seems that just about everybody in South Korea claims that 
> he had worked for the US "intelligence" orgs.  In fact Ahn Doo Whi 
> claimed he was an OSS major!<<

The reason for these false claims is to make the claimant sound more 
credible and to try to shift responsibility from the individual or 
political organization to someone else, generally the U.S.

>  >>The question is how much Nichols and his Korean pals were involved in 
> the assassination business. As you know Nichols writes in his memoirs 
> that he had quite few folks snubbed out and that he was having nightmares 
> about his victims.<<

Hard to say how much Nichols was involved since he was a "loose cannon" and 
a lot of what he, or his organization did, was not cleared with higher 
headquarters.  Also, he often did things to further his standing with Rhee 
and others in the Korean government that had noting to do with the 6004th 
AISS's mission.  There also some question about some of his "successes" 
although there is no question but that he did accomplish a number of 
spectacular intelligence coups.

>  >.Also, Kim In Ho writes in his memoirs that he worked for a Korean 
> "agent" of the US CIC in 1948-1950.<<

The only CIC unit in South Korea after June 30, 1949, was the detachment 
with KMAG Headquarters in Seoul.  This detachment had one or two CIC agents 
with KMAG detachments at Taejon, Kwang-ju, Kangnung and Pusan.  It is 
likely Kim In Ho was a CIC informant and continued as an informant when 
ROKA CIC assumed control when the Americans left.

>Ed

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