Political Grind

SEOUL (Yonhap) - A former South Korean intelligence agency chief who disappeared in 1979 was killed at a chicken farm in the suburbs of Paris by a team of South Korean agents, a weekly news magazine here reported Monday. Sisa Journal quoted a former agent who allegedly led the team at the time as saying that his team abducted Kim Hyung-wook, who was then chief of the Korea Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), at a restaurant near a casino in downtown Paris on Oct. 7, 1979.

"We were waiting at the entrance of the restaurant at a time when Kim was supposed to meet a South Korean actress and succeeded in kidnapping him by disguising ourselves as a guide sent by the actress,'' the man, identified only by his family name Lee, told the magazine.

We then anesthetized him inside a Cadillac and pushed his body into a grinder at a chicken farm located 4 kilometers northwest of Paris at about 11 p.m., to feed chickens."

Lee said he killed Kim in a team with an agent called Kwak, who was sent to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and trained to be a special assassin.