계속된 경비대 반란사건

HEADQUARTERS FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF: SUBJECT: Intelligence Division Special Briefing. FURTHER OUTBREAKS AMONG SOUTH KOREAN CONSTABULARY Further militance incidents among the South Korean Constabulary since the suppression of the Yosu rebellion raise two important questions: (1) What is the extent of serious disaffection among the Constabulary? (2) Are these outbreaks the initial phases of a Communist plan for the gradual development of a Communist guerrilla rebellion in Korea patterned after the one in Greece? The latest outbreaks have been on a much smaller scale than the Yosu incident last month. The principal one was at Taegu where on 2 November a large number of the Sixth Constabulary Regiment revolted when Korean Military Police attempted to arrest a member of the Constabulary for Communist activities. Early reports of the fighting which ensued gave the Police casualties as 4 killed and 15 wounded, and military casualties as 21 killed and 8 wounded. The mutiny was under control on 4 November, by which time some 400 Constabulary had been rounded up. Over 300 of them are reported to have surrendered to the Commanding Officer of the First [illegible] at Taegu [illegible] on the outskirts of Taegu. [illegible] and the military had intended to attack police bases on 2 November, [illegible] [illegible] presumably precipitated by the Police attempt to [illegible] [illegible] as mentioned above. While reports do not indicate [illegible] [illegible] directly responsible for the outbreak at Taegu, it is likely [illegible] to [illegible] state that Communist elements in the Sixth Regiment did their best to [illegible] the mutiny into a rebellion. Two other minor mutinies in the Constabulary have occurred recently in South Korea. On 29 October 20 members of the Fourth Regiment in Cheju are reported to have mutinied. They were subdued by local units of the regiment. The other minor incident was on 2 November near Taegu where the commander of the second battalion of the Fourteenth Regiment was shot by a company commander who then fled to the hills with about 50 Constabulary. On Chejudo, 244 guerrillas, including their deputy commander, are reported to have been killed recently by the Constabulary in a consolidated effort to smash Communists on the island. Whether any mutineers are among the guerrillas on Chejudo is not known. The above incidents so soon after Yosu would suggest that disaffection among the Constabulary is more widespread than was at first suspected. It is still believed, however, that dissident elements in the Constabulary are in the minority. Thus far there is insufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that the recent incidents in Korea, including with Yosu, are part of a Communist plan to apply the techniques of Greek guerrilla warfare to Korea for the purpose of overthrowing the Government, but the number and violence of the outbreaks, with the Communists being rapidly involved, would indicate the definite possibility of Communist inspiration. Copies to: Secretary of Defense Secretary of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff Director, Joint Staff R&O (2) D/I, USAF (3) A. R. E[illegible] Major Ge[illegible] [illegible] Deputy [illegible] Intelligence