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This declassified United States Army record from July fifteen, nineteen-fifty-one, concerns the recruitment of Chinese prisoners of war for clandestine operations during the Korean War. The document, obtained from archive.org and documented by The Black Vault, details instructions for selecting these agents. This document was released by the United States Army and is available in its entirety at archive.org. The release date and specific Freedom of Information Act case number are not cataloged with this record. Headquarters, Eighth United States Army Korea, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-Two, Intelligence, APO Three-Zero-One, twenty-fifth July, nineteen-fifty-one. Subject: Clandestine Agents. To: Lieutenant Colonel de Riemer, Commanding Officer, Three-Hundred-Eighth C-I-C Detachment, APO Three-Zero-One. One. It is desired that you select fifteen volunteers for a hazardous mission from among the Chinese prisoners of war, utilizing the informants that the Seven-Hundred-Fourth C-I-C Detachment has placed in the prisoner of war enclosures. The volunteers selected must be trustworthy, physically fit, and loyal to the Chinese Nationalist cause. Successful accomplishment of the assigned mission will be properly rewarded. Two. The personnel selected will be used as clandestine agents, but this will not be disclosed to the informants nor to the selectees. If deemed advisable, this matter may be discussed with the A-C of S, G-Two, Second Log Command. Three. After the original fifteen personnel have been selected, they will be segregated from the other prisoners. The following information will be reported to this office for the personnel selected: Name, occupation prior to military service, age, length of service with Nationalist forces, rank, length of service with Communist forces, educational level, military assignment in Korea. Four. After selection of the initial fifteen personnel has been made, additional personnel will be selected monthly in increments of fifteen, for whom the information requested in paragraph three above will be reported to this office. Five. It is desired that a report of the initial fifteen personnel selected be forwarded to this office on or before twenty-fifth July, nineteen-fifty-one. Additional reports will be made every thirty days thereafter. Six. It is emphasized that this is a critical matter and must be handled with the utmost discretion. Knowledge of the contents of this letter will be disseminated on a "need to know" basis. James H. Polk, Colonel, G-S-C, A-C of S, G-Two. The United States Army has not published a specific contextual statement regarding this individual document. However, its records from this period indicate a broader intelligence effort during the Korean War that included attempts to gather information and conduct operations within enemy territory. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. storyflo.com. The canonical U-R-L for this document is…

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This declassified United States Army record from July fifteen, nineteen-fifty-one, concerns the recruitment of Chinese prisoners of war for clandestine operations during the Korean War. org and documented by The Black Vault, details instructions for selecting these agents. org. The release date and specific Freedom of Information Act case number are not cataloged with this record.

Date: OCT 18 · 2026
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This declassified United States Army record from July fifteen, nineteen-fifty-one, concerns the recruitment of Chinese prisoners of war for clandestine operations during the Korean War. The document, obtained from archive.org and documented by The Black Vault, details instructions for selecting…

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What was This Declassified United States Army Record From July Fifteen about?: This declassified United States Army record from July fifteen, nineteen-fifty-one, concerns the recruitment of Chinese prisoners of war for clandestine operations during the Korean War. org and documented by The Black Vault, details instructions for selecting these agents. org. The release date and specific Freedom of Information Act case number are not cataloged with this record.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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