SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ran a previously undisclosed office in Seoul until last year, legal sources said Sunday. The existence of the office, which was used to collect open-source intelligence on South Korea as part of the CIA’s Open Source Enterprise, became known after three former employees sued [...]
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States should be prepared to launch preemptive strikes on North Korea, including a nuclear attack if necessary, before the communist nation uses its nuclear bombs that could “kill 90 percent of Americans,” a former CIA chief said Wednesday. James Woolsey, who served as CIA director from 1993-95, [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States believed late former South Korean President Park Chung-hee, father of current President Park Geun-hye, was neither an opportunist or a communist, according to a declassified 1961 CIA report. The daily intelligence report to the president, which was dated on July 19, 1961, came two months after [...]