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The online edition of Sisa Journal said Monday the mysterious disappearance of former KCIA director Kim Hyung-wook 26 years ago had been solved. A former special agent confessed Kim was assassinated after being kidnapped from a restaurant in Paris and fed into a feed mill at a chicken farm on the outskirts of the French capital.
The magazine said a certain Mr. Lee, a KCIA special agent, testified to forming a hit squad with another agent who had been dispatched to Israel's Mossad for special assassination training to eliminate the former South Korean spy master.
The weekly said the confession sounded genuine since the agent exhibited knowledge of infiltration routes, terrain and murder methods that would have been difficult for someone not involved in the incident to discover. It said the operative told the story behind the disappearance on condition of anonymity.
"Kim came from the United States to Paris to meet a female entertainer, who was a honey-trap, and on Oct. 7, 1979, the other assassin and I drugged a slightly drunk Kim Hyung-wook in front of a restaurant attached to a downtown Paris casino," Lee said. "We drove him to a chicken farm we had scouted out beforehand about four or five km northwest of Paris. We picked the farm's feed mill for the task so as not to leave any traces."
He said he felt no pity since he acted in the conviction that Kim had to disappear "for sake of the nation and the Korean race." He said both assassins minutely prepared for a year and were ready to commit suicide if they we were caught.
Lee denied reports that Kim was abducted to Seoul and murdered there since French intelligence and police were no "fools".
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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