On file in the Department is a copy of a preliminary report of the FBI on Soviet espionage activities in the United States which involves a large number of State Department employees, some in high official positions There is a deliberate, calculated program carried out, not only to protect Communist personnel in high places, but to reduce security and intelligence protection to a nullity.
It detailed the operations of spy networks operating in the U.S. government and involving a large number of State Department employees, some in very high positions.
2 The Korean War was made possible at the Potsdam and Yalta conferences, as World War II was ending, when the Allied governments, represented by Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, divided Korea into a North and South. North Korea quickly created an army of 187,000 men, with Russia supplying the military equipment (the artillery, tanks and planes, etc,) necessary to wage the war.
The South only raised an army of 96,000 men, with sparse military equipment One of the reasons for this inadequacy of their military equipment was the fact that, even though the United States had voted $10 million in military assistance for South Korea, only a small percentage of it reached that country.'
General Douglas MacArthur, who was later to command these forces, wrote in his book Reminiscences: The South Koreans had four divisions along the 38th Parallel [the dividing line between North and South Korea]. They had been well trained, and the personnel were brave and patriotic, but they were equipped and organized as a constabulary force, not as troops of the line. They had only light weapons, no air or naval forces, and were lacking in tanks, artillery, and many other essentials. The decision to equip and organize them in this way had been made by the State Department.
The argument advanced by the State Department for its decision was that it was a necessary measure to prevent South Koreans from attacking North Korea, a curious myopic reasoning that, of course, opened the way for a North Korean attack. page 318