<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Frank,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Thank you very much. That book contains an extraordinary amount of information about NAMKO (which some believe stands for </span><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">NA</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">val Penetration of KOrea), a planned mission by the OSS during WWII. The book is in English and Korean and contains many documents from General
MacArthur, General William "Bill" Donovan (the head of the OSS) and President Truman. </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The mission was to use submersibles, small single-man submarines, to insert Korean-born agents into Korea. The mission, however, was never carried out. The war ended before it began. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although the documents include the biographies of <span>many Korea agents, and
Catholic priests, it doesn't contain the name of any of the OSS informants I inquired about including Chung Kei-won from central Korea, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;">as far as I can tell.</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Here's the link again if anyone is curious: <a
href="http://contents.archives.go.kr/Q/publication-ebook/02-03.Publication.300/eBook_Contents/script_v1/open.jsp?BName=1111800000001040120010413&BID=30724&PageNo=0&SID=5&BStyle=0&Title=NAPKO+Project+of+OSS%3A%C0%E7%B9%CC%C7%D1%C0%CE%B5%E9%C0%C7+%C1%B6%B1%B9+%C1%A4%C1%F8+%B0%E8%C8%B9">http://contents.archives.go.kr/Q/publication-ebook/02-03.Publication.300/eBook_Contents/script_v1/open.jsp?BName=1111800000001040120010413&BID=30724&PageNo=0&SID=5&BStyle=0&Title=NAPKO+Project+of+OSS%3A%C0%E7%B9%CC%C7%D1%C0%CE%B5%E9%C0%C7+%C1%B6%B1%B9+%C1%A4%C1%F8+%B0%E8%C8%B9</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Bill</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" class="yui_3_7_2_154_1379630454880_380"><span style="font-size: 18px;" class="yui_3_7_2_154_1379630454880_378"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">__________________________________________</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif">Bill Streifer & Irek Sabitov</font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">The Flight of the Hog Wild</font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.my-jia.com/The_Flight_of_the_Hog_Wild">http://www.my-jia.com/The_Flight_of_the_Hog_Wild</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif">__________________________________________<br></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Allow me to save some valuable bytes and combine this note with another </span>earlier posting by Bill Streifer about "CHUNG Kei-won": Coincidentally, looking for another publication of the same year by the Kukka Pohunch'ŏ I stumbled over this book here--and this looks like it could possibly provide exactly the infos he was asking for (has documents in both, English and
Korean):<br><br>------<br> Napko project of OSS: chaemi Hanindŭl ŭi choguk chŏngjin kyehoek.<br> [Napko project of OSS: 재미한인들의조국정진계획.]<br> [Seoul] : Kukka Pohunch'ŏ 國家報勳處, 2001.<br> (773 pp.)<br>------<br><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div class="y_msg_container"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amazingly enough this whole book is online (!!) --a very long URL:</span><br><br><a href="http://contents.archives.go.kr/Q/publication-ebook/02-03.Publication.300/eBook_Contents/script_v1/open.jsp?BName=1111800000001040120010413&BID=30724&PageNo=0&SID=5&BStyle=0&Title=NAPKO+Project+of+OSS%3A%C0%E7%B9%CC%C7%D1%C0%CE%B5%E9%C0%C7+%C1%B6%B1%B9+%C1%A4%C1%F8+%B0%E8%C8%B9"
target="_blank">http://contents.archives.go.kr/Q/publication-ebook/02-03.Publication.300/eBook_Contents/script_v1/open.jsp?BName=1111800000001040120010413&BID=30724&PageNo=0&SID=5&BStyle=0&Title=NAPKO+Project+of+OSS%3A%C0%E7%B9%CC%C7%D1%C0%CE%B5%E9%C0%C7+%C1%B6%B1%B9+%C1%A4%C1%F8+%B0%E8%C8%B9</a><br><br>(all in one line, of course, without spaces)<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">--------------------------------------</span><br>Frank Hoffmann<br><a href="http://koreanstudies.com/" target="_blank">http://koreanstudies.com</a><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> <style type="text/css">
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