[KS] A Korean refugee knew about Pearl Harbor in advance

Yoo Kwang-On almakoreana at gmail.com
Sun Feb 23 10:13:37 EST 2014


Bill,

I hope you have this on Kilsoo Hann;

[PDF]WAR DEPARTMENT - CIA FOIA - Central Intelligence
Agency<http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/50/War_Dept_Reply_to_Request_for_Correspondent_in_Korea_25_Sep_1945.PDF>


Yoo Kwang-On



On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Bill Streifer <photografr7 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Mark,
>
> As you probably are aware, Sumner Welles, the former Under-Secretary of
> State, wrote in his book, "The Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor in December
> 1941 had been accurately predicted by alert Koreans." I also have
> approximately 20 (censored) letters to and from Kilsoo Haan, in addition to
> his Congressional testimony (as I believe I originally explained).
>
> Bill
>
> __________________________________________
>
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:42 PM, "caprio at rikkyo.ac.jp" <
> caprio at rikkyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>  Dear Bill,
>
> I think the "important" Korean "refugee" was Haan Kilso who was neither
> important (albeit interesting in my mind) nor a refugee. He did claim to
> have this information on Pearl Harbor and did tell someone. His papers at
> Santa Cruz (UC) show a letter from someone telling him to keep his mouth
> shut or else. Haan had information on many issues including the German
> invasion of Russia. He was a main rival to Rhee in Washington. There are
> things in English written on him. I include discussion on the PH rumor and
> other predictions by him in a paper that should (I hope) appear soon in
> print. In my opinion his PH prediction alone would be a stretch unless you
> have more information. The paper I would be interested in reading would
> consider--assuming he had information--would look into his connections in
> Japan.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Mark Caprio
>
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