How many western POWs choose not to repatriate?
(From Hastings) 21 Americans and one Briton refused repatriation at the end of the war. Most of these Americans went to China. 2 Americans chose not to repatriate but changed their mind after hearing explanations from their priest and officials. By 1959, the Americans claimed to have identified 75 former POWs in Korea as Communist agents. The most serious case was that of George Blake, who became a key Soviet agent inside the British Foreign Office after released by the communist.
