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Defense Counterintelligence Command

South Korean intelligence organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Defense Counterintelligence Command is the military intelligence security agency of the Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense (MND) tasked with advancing military counterintelligence through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world. It was founded as the Army Counter Intelligence Corps on 21 October 1950.

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“Defense Counterintelligence Command” enters the record as south Korean intelligence organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Defense, Counterintelligence and Command can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Defense, Counterintelligence and Command.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “Defense Counterintelligence Command” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.