Western intelligence states have procured a secret North Korean document according to which, the late dictator Kim Jong-Il was in charge of a kidnapping program where foreigners were abducted and brought to North Korea and turned into spies against their own native countries.
According to the Washington Times, unnamed diplomatic sources familiar with the discovery said the document detailed how Kim who died in 2012, directed a covert spy unit in the 1970s called the Investigation Department that kidnapped foreign nationals and brought them to North Korea.
North Korea's Investigative Department, which is a part of the ruling communist Korean Workers Party Central Committee abducted several foreigners and used them for training its intelligence operatives.
The classified North Korean government report was reportedly created within the past many years as part of a historical archive.
The report says that the secret document is considered authoritative because of its origin and the importance within the North Korean system of precisely recording the words of supreme leaders.
