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Originally Posted by komitsuki

Major George E. Cilley

Historians today still undermine that South Korea before the Korean War was a Communist paradise.



But not during right after WWII.

> >>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.

taken from

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

Very interesting.

South Korea though was NOT communist. Subjective, At the time there was an thing called the "red scare". In which communism exploded worldwide. Your point is about it not being right after ww2?