Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again," the President wound up, "but they will always be mighty proud that you came this way, and so am I." For several U.S. soldiers, his words were soon to prove tragically prophetic. That night, while Johnson slept at the Walker Hill recreation center overlooking Seoul, North Korean infiltrators ambushed a U.S. Army patrol 800 yds. south...
...killing six Americans and a South Korean...
...conversion theory "ludicrous." Says he: "Blake was never kept away from his fellow prisoners for more than a few hours"-too short a time for effective brainwashing. As to a philosophical decision by Blake that Communism was morally superior, Deane observes: "All we knew at the hands of the Koreans was unspeakable brutality. Fellow prisoners were dying like flies around us." Blake and Deane converted their Korean interrogator to democracy: he later defected to the West...
Implausible? Deane theorizes that Blake was actually a triple agent. After the Korean experience, he surmises, British intelligence asked Blake to "sell out" to the Russians, then plant false information (leavened with bits of sound but less valuable data) in hopes of misleading Moscow or gaining enemy information himself. According to Deane, Blake might well have consented to the 1961 trial to maintain the illusion that British authorities thought he was working for the Kremlin, when in fact he remained a loyal British public servant all the while. Thus Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs could have been engineered...
...appointed a tubercular army marshall, Lin Piao, to take over the Defense ministry. Lin had been a brilliant strategist against the Japanese and the Nationalists and had a number of important contacts in southern China, but he came back halfway through the Korean War suffering from wounds and disease, and remained inactive for the next eight years...