For the 2018–2020 North-South Korean office building, see Inter-Korean Liaison Office.
Korean War American intelligence unit
Korea Liaison Office
Active
June 1, 1949 (1949-06-01) – July 1951 (1951-07)
Country
United States
Type
Military intelligence unit
Role
Clandestine operations Special reconnaissance Guerrilla warfare
Size
Estimated 1,000 to 6,000
Part of
United States Far East Command
Engagements
Korean War:
Battle of Incheon
Military unit
The Korea Liaison Office (KLO) was an American military intelligence unit composed primarily of South Koreans. It operated between June 1, 1949 and July 1951.
The agency was founded and operated by the United States Army, but most of its agents were South Korean. Many of its early agents came from the right-wing group the White Shirts Society. The KLO conducted a wide array of intelligence gathering and clandestine operations, including training and sending spies to North Korea. After the outbreak of the Korean War, it began conducting more guerrilla operations.
It was absorbed into the Far East Command Liaison Group (FEC/LG), cover name 'the 442nd Counterintelligence Corps detachment'[1]
On 26 July 1951, the Far East Command Liaison Group (FEC/LG) was dissolved, and much of the KLO's personnel and assets moved to the 8240th Army Unit under new Far East Command Liaison Detachment, Korea (FEC/LD (K)).[2]
^The Combined Command for Reconnaissance Activities, Korea (CCRAK)
^The Army’s Guerrilla Command in Korea
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