List of American and British defectors in the Korean War
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soldiers and
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(one British and 21 Americans) who declined
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to the United Kingdom and United States after the
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in favor of remaining in China, and their subsequent fates. Also listed are soldiers who defected to
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.


Background

Prisoner repatriation was one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the long cease-fire negotiations between the forces of the
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and those of China and North Korea. The warring factions finally agreed on an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners,
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, which was carried out in April and May 1953. That June, the two sides agreed that no prisoner who did not wish to be repatriated would be forced to do so (this had long been a sticking point in negotiations, with the Chinese and North Koreans wanting all prisoners returned to their home countries). Prisoners who did not wish to go back to their home countries would be given 90 days in a neutral compound near
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to reconsider before being allowed to stay in enemy territory. Following the
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that was signed on 27 July 1953, effectively ending the Korean War (South Korea never signed), the main prisoner exchange was free to proceed. Operation Big Switch, the exchange of remaining prisoners of war, commenced in early August 1953, and lasted into December. 75,823
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fighters (70,183 North Koreans, 5,640 Chinese) were returned to their homelands. 12,773 U.N. soldiers (7,862 South Koreans, 3,597 Americans, and 946 British) were sent back south across the armistice line. Over 14,000 Communist soldiers, many of whom were former Republic of China soldiers who fought against the Communists in the
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, refused repatriation. Similarly, one Briton and 23 American soldiers (along with 327 South Koreans) also refused to be returned to their homelands. Two, Corporal Claude Batchelor and Corporal Edward Dickenson, changed their minds before the 90-day window expired. Both were
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ed and sentenced to prison terms, with Batchelor serving 4½ years and Dickenson 3½. This left 22 U.N. soldiers who voluntarily stayed with the Communists after the final exchange of prisoners. The 21 Americans were given dishonorable discharges. This had the
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of rendering them immune to court-martial when they finally returned to the United States (which the majority eventually did), because they were no longer active-duty military. However, they were still criminally culpable for any acts of collaboration or offenses against fellow prisoners committed while they were POWs. At about 4:00 am on 24 February 1954, a train carrying the 21 American defectors crossed the
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into China. The Chinese soon shipped some of the men off to study language and politics. Others went to mills, factories, and farms across Eastern China. However, all but 4 of them subsequently returned to the West.


List of defectors


American

# Adams, Clarence (Cpl.). A soldier from
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. Adams, an African-American, cited racial discrimination in the United States as the reason he refused repatriation. While a prisoner, Adams took classes in Communist political theory, and afterwards lectured other prisoners in the camps. Because of this and other collaboration with his captors, his prosecution by the Army was likely upon his repatriation. During the
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, Adams made propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi from their Chinese office, telling black American soldiers not to fight: "You are supposedly fighting for the freedom of the Vietnamese, but what kind of freedom do you have at home, sitting in the back of the bus, being barred from restaurants, stores and certain neighborhoods, and being denied the right to vote. ... Go home and fight for equality in America." Adams married a Chinese woman and lived in China until the increasingly anti-Western atmosphere of the
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led him to return to the United States in 1966. The
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subpoenaed Adams upon his return but did not question him publicly. He later started a Chinese restaurant business in Memphis. Clarence Adams died in 1999 and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. Adams' autobiography '' An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China'' was posthumously published in 2007 by his daughter Della Adams and Lewis H. Carlson. #Adams, Howard Gayle (Sgt.). From
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. He worked in a paper factory in
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. He refused all media requests for interviews."Where are Korean War Defectors Now?"
''Grey Beards''. Vol. 16. No. 4. July–August 2002.
#Belhomme, Albert Constant (Sgt.). A native of
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who emigrated to the United States as a teenager. He lived in China for ten years, working in a paper factory in Jinan, before returning to
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. #Bell, Otho Grayson (Cpl.). Originally from
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. Chose not to return despite having a wife and baby girl back in the United States. In China, Bell was sent to a collective farm with William Cowart and Lewis Griggs (see below). Bell described himself, Cowart and Griggs as "the dummy bunch", saying they were sent to the farm because they could not learn Chinese. They returned to the United States together in July 1955, were arrested, but were released when it was found that the military no longer had jurisdiction over the defectors after they were dishonorably discharged. Bell died in 2003. #Corden, Richard (Sgt.). A native of Chicago. He returned to the United States in January 1958. He was reported to live in
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in 1961 and moved to Chicago in 1962. He reportedly continued to support Communism after returning to the United States. He died in 1988 and is buried in Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee. #Cowart, William (Cpl.). Returned with Bell and Griggs (see below). Later the three soldiers sued for their back pay. The case went to the
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, which held that Bell, Cowart and Griggs were entitled to their back pay from the time they were captured to the time they were dishonorably discharged. #Douglas, Rufus (Sgt.). Died in China a few months after arrival in 1954. The manner of his death is not certain but is believed to have been from natural causes. #Dunn, John Roedel (Cpl.). Born in
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on 29 June 1928. He married a Czechoslovak woman while in China and settled in
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in December 1959. Died in
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in 1996. #Fortuna, Andrew (Sgt.). Originally from
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. He was awarded two Bronze Stars for his service in Korea before he was captured. He returned to the United States on 3 July 1957. He worked in
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, in 1958; in
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, from 1963–64; and Chicago in 1964. He was reported to be in
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, as of 1964. He died in 1984. #Griggs, Lewis Wayne. Returned with Bell and Cowart in 1955. He was listed as a senior majoring in sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University, graduating in 1959. He died in 1984. # Hawkins, Samuel David (Pfc.). From
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. He married a Russian woman in China and returned to the United States in February 1957, shortly before his wife was permitted to come to the United States. He successfully petitioned the government to change his discharge from dishonorable to other than honorable. He raised a family, and has given interviews to the press on the condition that his location not be disclosed. #Pate, Arlie (Cpl.). Worked in a paper mill before returning with Aaron Wilson (see below) in 1956. He died in 1999. #Rush, Scott (Sgt.). Married in China. After living in China for ten years, he and his wife moved to the United States and settled in the Midwest. #Skinner, Lowell (Cpl. ). His mother begged him to come home over the radio at the time of the prisoner exchange, to no avail. He married in China, but left his wife behind when he returned to the United States in 1963. Later he had problems with
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and spent six months in a psychiatric hospital. He died in 1995. #Sullivan, LaRance. Returned in 1958 and died in 2001. #Tenneson, Richard (Pfc.). Returned in 1955. He went to Louisiana a few months later to welcome home fellow defector Aaron Wilson (see below). He settled in Utah before dying in 2001. # Veneris, James (Pvt.). (1922–2004), Born to a
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family in
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, he stayed in China and became a dedicated Communist, taking the Chinese name 'Lao Wen'. He worked in a steel mill, participated in the
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, hung posters during the
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, married three times and had children. He visited the United States in 1976, but returned to China where he is buried.Veneris interview
#Webb, Harold (Sgt.). From
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. He married a Polish woman in China and moved to
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in 1960, reportedly settling in
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. In 1988, he was given permission to settle in the United States. He is the subject of the
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song "Turncoat" about rejection of a Korean War defector seeking a return to America. #White, William (Cpl.). Married and obtained a bachelor's degree in international law while in China. He returned to the United States in 1965. #Wills, Morris (Cpl.). From
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. He played basketball for Peking University and got married in China. He returned to the U.S. in 1965 and got a job in the Asian Studies Department at
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. His autobiography, '' Turncoat: An American's 12 Years in Communist China'', was published in 1966. He died in 1999. #Wilson, Aaron (Cpl.). (1932–2014) Originally from
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. Cpl. Wilson was one of five American defectors who never went beyond the eighth grade as a child. He was captured in 1950, during the first days of the Chinese-led counteroffensive that stymied US gains on territory held by the North Koreans. His lack of education and three years of indoctrination are cited as reasons for his decision to stay. He returned to the U.S. on 6 December 1956. Wilson married an American woman and worked in his
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hometown's mill. Later in life Wilson flew a U.S. flag from an pole in his front yard. For an interview he gave to the Korean War Veterans Association in 2002 he told the interviewer, "This is the greatest country in the world, and maybe when I was 17 years old I didn't know it, but I do now." He died in 2014 and is buried in Silverhill, Alabama.


British

Andrew Condron, a
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of 41 (Independent) Royal Marine Commando, was the only Briton to decline repatriation. Allegations of American biological warfare during the Korean War have been reported to have influenced Condron's decision to live in China; however, those who knew him have said he was motivated by admiration of
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and
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. Regarding his desertion Condron said "I made my gesture because I am against war. I have spent my years in China learning a lot." The
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refused to rule out the possibility of arrest and trial if he returned to the United Kingdom. Regarding Condron, Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Lindop of the Intelligence Division of the
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stated that the
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"regard Condron as a deserter and ... he is liable to be arrested and charged with desertion" and as a result it was difficult for Condron to return to the UK. In 1955, Condron was included in the editor's list for a book entitled: ''Thinking Soldiers – by Men Who Fought in Korea.'' In the following quotation written by Condron he expresses his disillusionment with military life:
'... the soldier today can no longer be viewed as a robot. The more different kinds of experience he has, the more he fits them together in his mind. That is why all those who consider the soldier merely as a thing to be used, like the rifle he carries or the pack he wears, are bound to come out very badly in their calculations. Our experience, and that of the men who wrote this book, included battle, capture and much thought in Korea. We were a few among many thousands.
Despite political and personal reasons for his defection, Condron's lifestyle in China challenged the core socialist values of the regime. The
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and British Embassy in Beijing reported Condron had been drinking "on a fairly hearty scale" and fraternising with Chinese girls, which was taboo at the time. In 1959 Condron was in a relationship with Jaquelin Hsiung-Baudet, an illegitimate daughter of the French diplomat Philipe Baudet whom he met while working as an English teacher at the
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. Condron returned to the United Kingdom in 1960 due to growing xenophobia in China, and received an honourable discharge from the Royal Marines. In 1962 Jaquelin moved to the UK to join her then husband. In 1963 Condron worked selling the
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door-to-door, while Jaquelin worked at the
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. Condron and his wife had a son, Simon, who attended the
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in the 1970s. Jaquelin divorced Condron due to alcoholism and later emigrated to the US. His son, Simon, worked at the BBC and Condron lived in his London flat until his death in March 1996 aged 68.


Documentaries

*'' They Chose China'' (2005), a 52-minute documentary film, directed by Shui-Bo Wang. Includes interviews with Samuel Hawkins and the families of Clarence Adams and James Veneris (both of whom were already deceased when the film was made), and archived interviews with Veneris and Adams. *''
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'' (Korean: 푸른 눈의 평양시민, "A Blue-Eyed Pyongyang Citizen in North Korea") is a 2006 documentary film by Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner.


See also

Six American servicemen are known to have defected to North Korea after the war: *
Larry Allen Abshier Larry Allen Abshier (1943 – July 11, 1983) was one of six American soldiers to defect to North Korea after the Korean War. He was born in Urbana, Illinois. Defecting Private Abshier, a member of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry, ...
(1962) *
James Joseph Dresnok James Joseph Dresnok ( ko, 제임스 조새프 드레스녹, November 24, 1941 – November 2016) was an American defector to North Korea, one of six U.S. soldiers to defect after the Korean War. After defecting, Dresnok worked as an actor in ...
(1962) * Jerry Wayne Parrish (1963) *
Charles Robert Jenkins Charles Robert Jenkins () was a United States Army deserter, North Korean prisoner, and voice for Japanese abductees in North Korea. It was a fear of combat and possible service in the Vietnam War that led then-Sergeant Jenkins to abandon his ...
(1965) *
Roy Chung Roy Chung (born Chung Ryeu-sup) is widely believed to be the fifth of six United States Army soldiers to have defected to North Korea after the Korean War. Life and disappearance Chung and his family were South Korean immigrants who arrived i ...
(1979) *
Joseph T. White Joseph T. White (November 5, 1961 August 17, 1985) was a United States Army soldier who defected to North Korea on August 28, 1982. Life and career Born to Norval and Kathleen White, he had four siblings and volunteered for the 1980 Reagan p ...
(1982)


References


Further reading

*''Turncoat: An American's 12 Years in Communist China'', by Morris Wills and J. Robert Moskin. *''21 Stayed: The Story of the American GIs Who Chose Communist China'', by Virginia Pasley. *''The Korean War'', by
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. See Chapter 16, "The Prisoners". *''An American Dream : The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China'', by Clarence Adams. . *Frederick, Jim
"In from the Cold"
''
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'', 4 November 2004. *


External links


Essay on the GIs by Adam Zwieback
*1963
TIME magazine article
with quotes from Albert Belhomme
Watch ''They Chose China'' at NFB.ca
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