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Olisiko kuitenkin kyse ollut hieman muusta kuin siitä, että nyt hommataan ITF:in kaikki ohjaajat WTF:ille

Dear All,
I hereby would like to inform you that, as of today 21st August 2014, a historical meeting between Prof. Dr. Chang UNG, ITF President and Dr. Chou Chungwon, WTF President took place in Nanjing, China where both Presidents apposed their respective signatures at the bottom of Protocol of Accord under the presence of Dr. Thomas Bach, IOC President.
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Sincerely yours
Professor. Kim Sung Hwan
ITF Secretary General (EB Member)
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Vienna, Austria

Hi Janne,

That's a fair question, asking for names and dates. Here are three stories that I heard about:

1) The Korean CIA threatened General Choi Hong-Hi many times, beginning in the early 1970s and continuing into the 1980s. He himself has written about this, but others have corroborated what he said. Robert Walson, for example, is a retired American CIA agent who helped Choi and told me that he knew about the threats. Michael Cormack, who travelled the world on TKD demo teams, also told me that the threats occurred.

2) KCIA agents or their thugs visited the mother of Han Sam-Soo, a TKD pioneer, telling her that Han might be kidnapped unless he switched. This is in my book, on page 139.

3) The Consul General of Los Angeles, USA, was a KCIA man and threatened Choi Sundak (of Arizona, USA), saying that Choi Sundak's relatives would face trouble in South Korean unless he joined the WTF.

4) C. K. Choi, a TKD pioneer, told me that the KCIA tried to bribe and threaten him into joining the WTF. I forget the date; it likely was the 1970s sometime. This info isn't in my book, as he told me after it was published.

5) Michael Cormack told me that he personally knew of many scenarios where KCIA agents had approached ITF instructors, Korean and non-Korean, and threatened the instructors into switching to the WTF network.

These are five solid examples of people going on the record to talk about the threats to switch to the WTF. Overall, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, it was routine for the KCIA to bribe, threaten and torture anyone who spoke out against the South Korean dictatorship. Threatening instructors to leave ITF and join WTF was naturally a part of that campaign, or "the Plan," as I call it in my book (from pages 104 to 178).

Hope this helps, Janne. Please tell me how it goes.

Alex