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UNOFFICIAL DRAFT HQ Information Paper No. 549 July 26, 1950 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Division of Research for Far East OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SECRET Information Paper 349 (Unedited Draft) CHEJU ISLAND They are highly [illegible], however, and in recent years have reflected an antipathy toward their local officials because of the North Korean or at least [illegible] origin of virtually all the government personnel. From 1946 to the spring of 1949, the island was a major center of Communist-fostered guerrilla activity. In armed conflict between guerrillas and government security forces, all but 104 of the 400 villages on the island were [illegible] many government offices and schools were burned, at least a tenth of the entire population of 255,000 left their land and took refuge in Cheju City, and a large proportion of the population was destitute and in need of relief. The guerrilla activity was virtually broken in the spring of 1949 in the first of three organized campaigns of the ROK Army against guerrilla areas in Korea. There have been only a few minor outbreaks since that time. Early in 1950, the government of the Republic of Korea appropriated funds and began planning a program of relief and reconstruction for the devastated island. In the normal course of events, economic conditions probably have improved considerably over 1950, but the programs of the government apparently were not put into operation prior to the June 25 invasion. There has been no confirmation or refutation of the claims by Pyongyang radio that post-invasion Communist guerrilla activity has reached serious proportions on Cheju. I can see this appears to be a very faint/low contrast document page that is almost entirely illegible. The image shows what appears to be a document page with extremely faded or washed-out text. I can barely make out what appears to be a header line at the very top of the page, but the text is too faint to read reliably. [illegible] The entire page content is essentially illegible due to the extremely low contrast/faded nature of the document scan. Individual words or characters cannot be reliably distinguished from the background. 민간인 문서 I can see this appears to be a very faint or nearly blank page from a document collection. The image is extremely light/washed out with only a few barely visible marks: - There appears to be a faint horizontal line or header area at the very top of the page - A small dot or period mark appears roughly in the center-left area of the page - A few other extremely faint marks are scattered across the page The text content is too faint/illegible to reliably extract. The page appears to be either: - A nearly blank page - A page where the text has been almost completely faded - The reverse/bleed-through side of a printed page [illegible]