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50-60 ROK TAEKWONDO SPECIALISTS

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PLANNED U.S. MILITARY MOVES THE TREE CUTTING OPERATION IS NOW SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE AT ABOUT 1800 HRS. EDT ON AUGUST 20. SIMULTANEOUS WITH THE TREE CUTTING, A NUMBER OF B-52'S WILL ARRIVE OVER SOUTH KOREA. FIVE GROUPS OF FOUR F-111'S WILL BE ARRIVING IN THE ROK AUGUST 20 BETWEEN 0225 AND 0425 EDT. THE MIDWAY CARRIER TASK GROUP HAS BEEN ORDERED TO SAIL AT 1700 EDT AUGUST 20 TO THE VICINITY OF THE SOUTHERN APPROACHES TO THE KOREA STRAIT. CHARGE STERN AND GENERAL STILLWELL WILL SEE PRESIDENT PARK SHORTLY TO INFORM HIM IN DETAIL OF OUR PLANS FOR THE TREE, THE B-52'S AND THE F-111'S. SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 STATE 206906 TOSEC 220008 STILLWELL'S PROPOSED PLAN GENERAL STILLWELL'S PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE TREE SURGERY CALLS FOR U.S. ENGINEERS, AUGMENTED BY 50-60 ROK TAEKWONDO SPECIALISTS TO ENTER THE JSA AND FELL THE TREE WITH CHAIN SAWS OR BY DEMOLITION. AT THE SAME TIME TWO "ILLEGAL" NORTH KOREAN ROAD BARRIERS WOULD BE REMOVED BY BULLDOZERS; THE DURATION OF THE OPERATION WOULD BE ABOUT 45 MINUTES. BACK-UP FORCES WOULD INCLUDE THE AUTHORIZED 35 MAN ARMED SECURITY FORCE WITHIN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY AS WELL AS ONE U.S. INFANTRY COMPANY POSITIONED CLOSE TO THE JSA AND ARMED WITH CLUBS ONLY; WEAPONS WOULD BE IN NEARBY TRUCKS. ALSO ONE ROK INFANTRY COMPANY ARMED WITH ORGANIC WEAPONS WOULD BE POSITIONED NEARBY AND ONE U.S. OR ROK RIFLE COM- PANY ORBITING IN HELOS IN THE VICINITY. ADDITIONALLY, A TANK/INFANTRY BATTALION WOULD BE POSITIONED SOUTH OF THE IMJIM RIVER. ARTILLERY WOULD BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION IF THE NORTH SHOULD USE WEAPONS. THE MISSION IS TO ACCOMPLISH THE REMOVAL OF THE TREE AND GATES WITHOUT SHOOTING, AND SHOULD THE OTHER SIDE START SHOOTING, THE MISSION BECOMES ONE OF RAPID EXTRACTION OF FORCES FROM CLOSE CONTACT RELYING PRIMARILY ON ARTILLERY COVERING FIRE JCS IS STAFFING THIS PROPOSAL FOR HIGH LEVEL WASHINGON DECISION. NORTH KOREAN ACTION SENSITIVE SOURCES CONFIRM THAT SOME NK AIRCRAFT AND NAVAL UNITS REMAIN ON ALERT STATUS. MEANWHILE NORTH KOREA IS APPARENTLY MAKING DIPLOMATIC APPROACHES ON THE AUGUST 18 INCIDENT TO NUMEROUS FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. CONTACTS WITH OUR ALLIES IN ADDITION TO JAPAN, AND CANADA, WHICH WERE INFORMED EARLIER, WE INSTRUCTED OUR POSTS TO INFORM OUR NATO ALLIES, AS WELL AS AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, THAILAND AND THE PHILIPPINES OF THE DEFCON 3 MOVE. A DOD PUBLIC STATEMENT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUED BRIEFLY NOTING THE INCREASED READ- INESS POSTURE BEING ADOPTED BY US FORCES IN KOREA. SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 STATE 206906 TOSEC 220008 CINCUNC LETTER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL WE HAVE INSTRUCTED USUN TO DELIVER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL A LETTER FROM CINCUNC WHICH GIVES A FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF THE PANMUNJOM INCIDENT. CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS AMB. MCCLOSKEY AND THE H STAFF ARE CONSULTING ON THE HILL INFORMING SELECTED MEMBERS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPLAINING THAT OUR MOVES DO NOT INVOLVE THE WAR POWERS ACT. CON- GRESSIONAL LEADERS IN KANSAS CITY ARE ALSO BEING BRIEFED. AMBASSADOR SNEIDER RETURNS TO SEOUL AMBASSADOR SNEIDER HAS CUT SHORT HIS HOME LEAVE AND WILL BE RETURNING TO KOREA THIS EVENING. WORLD REACTION INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO THE AUGUST 18 INCIDENT HAS THUS FAR BEEN RELATIVELY LIGHT: -- AT THE NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO THE NEWS HAS SPREAD SLOWLY DESPITE THE RELEASE OF US AND SOUTH KOREAN STATEMENTS. AS OF NOON TODAY WASHINGTON TIME, AFP REPORTED MOST DELEGATIONS STILL UNAWARE OF THE INCIDENT. -- AN OFFICIAL CUBAN STATEMENT PUBLISHED AUGUST 19 SAID "ADVENTUROUS AND WARLIKE MANEUVERS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM" COULD TRIGGER WAR IN KOREA. THE STATEMENT MADE NO SPECIFIC MENTION OF THE AUGUST 18 CLASH, HOWEVER. -- FRANKFURTER ALLEGEMEINE ZEITUNG AND SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEIT- UNG BOTH STRONGLY DENOUNCED THE NORTH KOREAN "MURDERS". -- JAPANESE PRESS COVERAGE WAS GENERALLY FACTUAL WITH LITTLE COMMENTARY. SECRET SECRET PAGE 04 STATE 206906 TOSEC 220008 -- A JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN IN THE ABSENCE OF VICE MINISTER SATO STATED THAT JAPAN IS WATCHING "WITH GREAT CONCERN" THE INCIDENT, WHICH "LOOKED MORE SERIOUS" THAN PREVIOUS DMZ CLASHES. -- A BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE STATEMENT CONDEMNED THE "BRU- TAL MURDERS" AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE "AGGRESSIVE AND INFLEXI- BLE ATTITUDE" OF NORTH KOREA TOWARD THE REUNIFICATION PROBLEM. UN ACTIVITIES THE UN CORE GROUP THAT IS WORKING ON A UN RESOLUTION AND EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON KOREA HAS REACHED A CONSENSUS THAT WE SHOULD GO AHEAD WITHOUT CHANGING THE AGREED TEXTS AND SUBMIT THE DOCUMENTS TOMORROW AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED. GOVERNOR SCRANTON TRANSMITTED BY LETTER LATE AUGUST 19 TO THE UNSC PRESIDENT THE TEXT OF THE SPECIAL UNC REPORT ON THE DMZ INCIDENT. ROBINSON SECRET NNN
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