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The CIA sponsored a variety of activities during the | The CIA sponsored a variety of activities during the Korean War. These activities included maritime operations behind North Korean lines. Yong Do Island, connected by a rugged isthmus to [[Pusan]], served as the base for those operations. Well-trained Korean guerrillas carried out these operations. The four principal U.S. advisers responsible for the training and operational planning of those special missions were Dutch Kramer, Tom Curtis, George Atcheson, and Joe Pagnella. All of these Paramilitary Operations Officers operated through a CIA front organization called the [[Joint Advisory Commission, Korea]] (JACK), headquartered at Tongnae, a village near Pusan, on the peninsula's southeast coast.<ref name="historynet.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/korean-war-cia-sponsored-secret-naval-raids.htm |title=Korean War: CIA-Sponsored Secret Naval Raids |publisher=History Net |access-date=May 19, 2011 |date=June 12, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515082518/http://www.historynet.com/korean-war-cia-sponsored-secret-naval-raids.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> These paramilitary teams were responsible for numerous maritime raids and ambushes behind North Korean lines, as well as [[prisoner of war]] rescue operations. | ||
These were the first maritime [[unconventional warfare (United States)|unconventional warfare]] units that trained indigenous forces as [[Proxy war|surrogates]]. They also provided a model, along with the other CIA-sponsored ground-based, paramilitary Korean operations, for the [[Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group]] (MACV-SOG) activities conducted by the U.S. military and the CIA/SOD (now Special Activities Center) in Vietnam.<ref name='Southworth'/><ref name="historynet.com"/> In addition, CIA paramilitary ground-based teams worked directly for U.S. military commanders, specifically with the 8th Army, on the "White Tiger" initiative. This initiative included inserting South Korean commandos and CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers prior to the two major amphibious assaults on North Korea, including the landing at [[Inchon]].<ref name='Southworth'/> | These were the first maritime [[unconventional warfare (United States)|unconventional warfare]] units that trained indigenous forces as [[Proxy war|surrogates]]. They also provided a model, along with the other CIA-sponsored ground-based, paramilitary Korean operations, for the [[Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group]] (MACV-SOG) activities conducted by the U.S. military and the CIA/SOD (now Special Activities Center) in Vietnam.<ref name='Southworth'/><ref name="historynet.com"/> In addition, CIA paramilitary ground-based teams worked directly for U.S. military commanders, specifically with the 8th Army, on the "White Tiger" initiative. This initiative included inserting South Korean commandos and CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers prior to the two major amphibious assaults on North Korea, including the landing at [[Inchon]].<ref name='Southworth'/> | ||