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Department of Army Message from Matthew Ridgway to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Department of Army Message from Matthew Ridgway to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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CLASSIFIED
SECRET
INCOMING
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
MESSAGE
STAFF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
SECRET
PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED
OPERATIONAL I MMEDIATE
FROM: CINCUNC 1 ADV ) SGD RIDGWAY
TO : JCS WASH DC
NR : HNC 078
130657Z JUL 51
intelligence reports from EUSAK given me this morning
include the reported displacement of the Eighth North Korean
Division Southeast across the Yesong River on or about July.
Reports derive both from our agents and prisoner of war
interrogations. EUSAK now accepted that 87 division in the
area South and Southwest of Kaesong.
The dates of this movement, if correctly reported,
coincide with the first broadcast message from the en
commanders to me in which they evidenced their desire to
initiate armistice discussions. I consider this item
of
major significance as further evidence that the en commanders
have not approached and do not yet approach this conference -
in good faith. Further, the unremitting flow of radio broad-
casts on the official Pyongyang and Peiping stations continues
to conceal and pervert the basic major factors of our meetings
and discussions to date. In order that a major effort may be
made b.y all influential agencies to establish our meetings and
discussions in an atmosphere of good faith, I respectfully
suggest prompt consideration by appropriate authorities,
including those of the United Nations, of some prompt effort
to cause these stations to cease these viciously false
broadcasts. They can seriously prejudice such chances as may
exist for fruitful discussions concerning an armistice.
I
am
considering what further action I should propose to the on
commanders that they take with respect to any forces they
may have in an area which so dominates Kaesong as that in
which the Eighth North Korean Division is reported recently
to have entered.
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
Es
SERVICE"
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
DECLASSIFIED
ACTION: JCS
3-16-20
OSD. letter, 97-44
NARS Date 3:4177
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(13 Jul 51)
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