Report No. 1. (Confidential) Eye Witness Reports from North of the 38th Parallel (Russian Occupation Zone) in Korea. 13×8″, 5 leaves, offset printed. Offset printed. WorldCat/OCLC locates NO copies. $750
Condition: old vertical fold at the bottom quarter. Stamped “declassified” by the exchange and gift division, Library of Congress, with their surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear page.
There are various reports with the “eyewitness” names left out, replaced by subscript lines. The materials removed are categorized so: coal, food, machinery, Manchuria, heavy industries, manufacturing machinery, steel mills, textile mills, electric smelting mill, railways, and so on.
This document seems to offer proofs of large-scale stripping of North Korean facilities back to the Soviet Union–at just the time when it was said that there perhaps wasn’t good evidence for this. (See: The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 By Charles K. Armstrong, page 150, available online).