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2 unusual facts about National Intelligence Service


Chun Doo-hwan

In 1982, he was installed as the Director of the Security Planning Bureau, and in 1985 he was named Prime Minister.

Tsche Chong-kil

For years, the government denied any involvement in his death, but in 2002 the Presidential Truth Commission announced the results of its investigation: during interrogation by the KCIA he fell, or was thrown, from a seventh story window; he is also believed to have been tortured.


Song Du-yul

According to the North Korean-affiliated Zainichi Korean newspaper Choson Sinbo, he refused conditions placed on him by the South Korean National Intelligence Service, which included a demand that he make a written pledge to respect South Korean law; as a result, his plans to attend the memorial collapsed.


see also

Shahwani

Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, former head of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service