[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 123, Issue 23

[Bill Streifer]

Frank,

Thank you very much. That book contains an extraordinary amount of information about NAMKO (which some believe stands for NAval 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. 

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. Although the documents include the biographies of 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, as far as I can tell. 

Here's the link again if anyone is curious: 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

Bill

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Bill Streifer & Irek Sabitov
The Flight of the Hog Wild
http://www.my-jia.com/The_Flight_of_the_Hog_Wild

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Allow me to save some valuable bytes and combine this note with another 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):
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>  Napko project of OSS: chaemi Hanindŭl ŭi choguk chŏngjin kyehoek.
>  [Napko project of OSS: 재미한인들의조국정진계획.]
>  [Seoul] : Kukka Pohunch'ŏ 國家報勳處, 2001.
>  (773 pp.)
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>Amazingly enough this whole book is online (!!) --a very long URL:
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>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
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>(all in one line, of course, without spaces)
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>Frank Hoffmann
>http://koreanstudies.com
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