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At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence - gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man — sworn to secrecy for a half-century—survived Operation Broken Reed. Arthur Boyd recalls his role as cryptographer on a team of Army Rangers, Navy Frogmen, Air Force officers, and CIA operatives that posed as the captured crew of a B-29 bomber in January 1952. Given cover names and cyanide capsules in case of discovery, the men were transported by Chinese Nationalists wearing Communist uniforms across North Korea, where undercover allies delivered information about troop strengths, weaponry, and intention. Fraught with danger, the mission came apart on its last day when the Americans came under fire from Chinese forces wise to the operation. The members of Broken Reed supplied Truman with proof of massive Chinese and Soviet buildups and a heavy Soviet bomber group in Manchuria, fully loaded with atomic weapons. With the potential destruction of the world outlined in front of him, Truman chose not to escalate the Korean War, saving millions of lives.
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From Publishers Weekly
Career army officer Boyd breaks his half-century of silence to tell the remarkable story of a top-secret black operation behind enemy lines during the Korean War. Code-named Broken Reed, the operation sent a 10-man team into North Korea to collect badly needed intelligence on enemy capabilities and intentions to aid President Harry Truman in making a fateful decision: to escalate the conflict or accept a stalemate. Boyd, a young signal corps lieutenant, was selected for the mission because of his top-secret clearance and his knowledge of Morse code. Boyd would transmit whatever intelligence the team gathered to a communications aircraft over the Sea of Japan. Inserted into North Korea by submarine, the team collected and transmitted intelligence that revealed a staggering enemy buildup and convinced Truman not to escalate the conflict. Discovered and ambushed, seven of the team were killed and three wounded—two grievously. In a desperate flight, the wounded reached their rendezvous point and were rescued by a waiting ship. If true—and there are no records, transcripts, or evidence of the operation and Boyd is the only known survivor—this suspenseful saga of heroism and sacrifice is further proof that truth can be stranger than fiction. (Nov.)
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Review
"A chilling story and, if true, certainly an amazing one in the annals of wartime espionage." -- Library Journal, 10/15/07
"A fascinating account." -- Military Officer, October 2007
About the Author
In August 1951, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur L. Boyd, U.S. Army (Ret), was a twenty-three-year old first lieutenant serving in Germany when he applied for a Top Secret “black intelligence” mission during the Korean War.
The mission director, operating out of the Pentagon and answering directly to President Harry S. Truman, picked Boyd to serve on a ten-man military intelligence team. Lieutenant Boyd was responsible for encryption and transmission of twenty intelligence reports collected from operatives within North Korea. Reports were relayed to Truman under an “Only-for-the-President’s-Eyes” order.
Following Operation Broken Reed, a successful operation that claimed the lives of seventy-five brave patriots, Boyd returned to Germany and was promoted to captain. As a captain, Boyd commanded units at Fort Bliss, Texas; within the 7th Infantry Division in Korea; at Fort Benning, Georgia; and at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Promoted to major, Boyd served as Chief of Communication Division for Fort Richardson. After his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, Boyd served as Chief, Communication Service at Fort Knox, Kentucky, until his retirement in 1967.
Colonel Boyd moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he graduated from Bethel Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. After graduation, he served as a chaplain at the Metropolitan and North Memorial Hospitals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After completing his tenure as a chaplain, he served as a financial consultant with a Saint Paul firm. Colonel Boyd now lives with his wife of sixty-one years in Tennessee.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Get the story straight - Carefully read the entire text to include the Prologue, the Epilogue and the Afterword.
By Arthur L. Boyd
Please read my in-depth comment following the negative critical reader review posted by R. Axelrod. It is imperative that the reader fully understands and comprehends the fact that the Operation Broken Reed story was written based upon a factual event, not some mind-generated military intelligence mission. The nine Americans and sixty-six Nationalist Chinese military who died for their country demand to be honored by a grateful nation for their heroic deed. Had they failed, a third world war and a doubtless nuclear holocaust would have ensued, claiming the lives of millions. This story is not, as Axelrod stated,"a fraud." Abundant historical, circumstantial and presumptive evidence abounds, fully supporting the authenticity of the mission. Axelrod's review is a cruel and a disgraceful insult to the memory of my dead comrades. Axelrod, following outlandish and unsupported remarks, drove a nail into the heart of the story with a closing comment, "You can delight in a creative adventure story." One fact remains. Anyone may lay claim to being a "specialist" within any given field, however unsupported words from a self-made fake specialist will lay waste to any boni-fide claim, thereby revealing the non-existence of any true level of training, experience and expertise.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Brave men on a top-secret mission
By Amazon Customer
Four-five years back I read a terrific book, "The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War," by Eugene Franklin Clark. I blogged about it Sept. 15 of last year. It is the first-person account of a secret, commando-like mission at Inchon that helped turn the tide of the war in favor of the U.N. side. Clark at the time was a Navy lieutenant who at 39 was "getting a little old for the commando game." The book is the record of his two-week adventure--a hair-raising reconnaissance strikes, night raids, firefights, a blazing naval battle between Chinese sailing junks--among the islands and mudlfats of the communist-held Seoul-Inchon harbor area. Clark wrote it in the 1950s, intending it not for publication but as a keepsake for his wife and children and as a personal memorial to the Korean men and women who fought and in many cases died to help him accomplish his mission. The manuscript lay in a safe deposit box for decades and only came to light because historian and novelist Thomas Fleming happened to come across it in doing research for an article about Clark's exploits.
Now I have found another such book, "Operation Broken Reed: Truman's Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III" (Carroll & Graf), similar to it in secretiveness and amazing events. Written (extremely well) by its central character, Lt. Col. Arthur L. Boyd (Ret.), and published in October 2007, it is the story of Boyd's participation as a 20-something Army Signal Corps lieutenant in a super-secret mission in North Korea in January 1952. Written as a compelling narrative rather than as a journal-like chronicle, there is so much about it that I like. The astonishing mission of course, but beyond that Boyd manages to give some flavor of the times and an understanding of his personal circumstances (married with a family). It has tension and a palpable sense of danger, and even touches of humor.
Operation Broken Reed had been authorized at the highest of high levels--President Harry Truman. Only he and his closest advisers, and the bare minimum of lower echelon people needed to get it prepared and in operation, knew of it. The little intelligence on the enemy that Truman had been getting was all but worthless. So a 10-man team of Army Rangers, Navy frogmen, Air Force officers and CIA operatives was landed by submarine into North Korea to collect intelligence on enemy capabilities and intentions to help Truman decide whether to escalate the war or work for a truce. They were accompanied by Nationalist Chinese from Formosa/Taiwan posing as Communist Chinese who supposedly had captured the team from a downed American airplane and were escorting them to captivity.
Boyd was selected for the mission because he was a highly qualified Morse code radio operator, was trained and experienced in cryptography, and had a top-secret security clearance. He was to transmit information the team gathered to aircraft over the Sea of Japan. Discovered and ambushed, seven of the team were killed, leaving Boyd alive with two grievously wounded men whom he believes may have died later. In a desperate flight, the wounded reached their rendezvous point and were rescued by an Air Force helicopter that had been called in by a Royal Navy warship that spotted their distress light signal.
Here's the rub: There are no records, transcripts, or other evidence of the operation. Everyone on the mission went under an assumed name (Boyd was "Sergeant Michael Lavern Baker, U.S. Air Force, B-29 radio operator"). Boyd is the only known survivor. He was sworn to secrecy until 1998. Troubled all his life by memories of the brave comrades killed, he decided to write the book to honor their memories.
That is the story Boyd tells. Some readers will consider it to be literally incredible--that is, untrue, incapable of credibility--because of the lack of any corroborating evidence. This is understandable. All I can say is that, as a person with more than a passing interest in and knowledge of the Korean War, I find it to be at the very least highly plausible. I find it to be at the very least highly plausible. Abundant circumstantial evidence held by Boyd and historical evidence enumerated within the book's afterword by Jay T. Young, a former CIA senior military analyst, give great credence to the mission's authenticity. Boyd, now 81, has made a plea for anyone having knowledge or evidence of the mission to come forward and make it publicly known.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Conflicted Reviewer
By Aloysius Oneill
I have been quite conflicted over this book, from the basic issue of whether such an operation took place to the less fraught question of whether everything happened as described by LTC Boyd, and whether it had the crucial significance he attributes to it. I want to believe that the story of this astonishingly bold and dangerous mission in early 1952 is completely authentic. As described in the book, LTC Boyd and those with him, American and Nationalist Chinese, were among the bravest men in the Korean War. He and nine others were to impersonate a downed B-29 crew (infiltrated into North Korea by an unidentified US sub) being moved across the peninsula by their Chinese captors (actually Nationalists in Peoples' Volunteers uniforms). Along the way then-LT Boyd was to encrypt and transmit, by Morse code, reports from other Nationalist teams on enemy strength and intentions, reports that bypassed the intelligence and operational chain of command and went directly to President Truman. (Unlike some reviewers, I didn't think the use of Nationalist soldiers was improbable; the US used Japanese-crewed minesweepers to clear Inchon harbor, an incendiary fact that was long kept secret.) At the end, Boyd and two other wounded US survivors were picked up off North Korea's west coast by a Royal Navy surface vessel, also unnamed.
One of the oddities in this story is the selection of Boyd himself, plucked from a tour as a Signal Corps officer in Germany, to disappear for who knew how long. In the entire Pacific area, were there no Signal Corps lieutenants with the requisite clearances and crypto skills?
Another quirk of the book is that LTC Boyd writes of the Korean situation in late 1951 and early 1952 as if it were the fall of 1950 and almost as if MacArthur were still in command, with all his hubris and deeply flawed approach to intelligence, especially regarding the Chinese. But by the time of Operation Broken Reed in January 1952, MacArthur was long gone and the armistice talks at Panmunjom had been going on for seven months. While they would drag on for another 18 months until the Armistice Agreement was signed in July 1953, the lines of what was to become the DMZ were largely fixed. It is certainly true that Truman was under intense pressure from many, especially in Congress, to expand the war, both in terms of geography and the types of weapons that could be employed. Truman himself had earlier caused a furor when, responding to a reporter's leading questions on November 30, 1950, he said he would take whatever steps were necessary. When pressed, Truman made clear he included the atomic bomb, continuing "there has always been active consideration of its use" and that MacArthur (who had not yet been fired) had the authority to decide to use the weapons. Nearly instantly, the White House stated that the President had misspoken, but the British in particular were terrified.
By late 1951, however, Truman and his key military and diplomatic advisors were adamant that a negotiated stalemate, not escalation, was the only way out of the war. One wonders how Truman would have used information from Operation Broken Reed to refute his critics. Could he have said that because of a super-secret ground mission in North Korea he knew that escalation was too dangerous? The information from an operation like Broken Reed would have been much more useful to the Joint Chiefs and General Ridgway in a military context than to Truman in the turbulent US political arena.
Feeding my skepticism is the knowledge that after the Viet Nam War there were many lurid accounts of ultra-secret "black" missions behind enemy lines with no records kept, false names, etc. etc., which turned out to be frauds, concocted by people who either had never served in that war or who had been supply clerks. There were indeed clandestine operations in Viet Nam, conducted by extraordinarily brave men from MAC-SOG, SEAL teams, South Vietnamese "Road Runner" teams and others. I spent two and a half years as an Army advisor with Vietnamese forces -- in circumstances of only occasional and mild enemy action -- but the fraudulent stories from that war kept popping into my mind as I read Operation Broken Reed.
There were covert missions in Korea, some as hair-raising as the one LTC Boyd recounts. Several of them are found in "Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea" by William B. Breuer. These include the remarkable actions of CDR Eugene Clark in preparation for the Inchon landing and other feats along the coast, including by Americans who advised anti-Communist partisans in North Korea. And although "Shadow Warriors" leaves something to be desired in terms of notes and documentation, it is miles ahead of "Operation Broken Reed" on that score. In his own posting on Amazon.com, LTC Boyd writes "Abundant historical, circumstantial and presumptive evidence abounds supporting the authenticity of the mission." Unfortunately, that's one big lack in his book.
If this operation was declassified in 1998 (in itself an odd 46-year classification period, the significance of which I can't decipher), it is strange that no one with knowledge of the operation has come forth to vouch for any detail of it.
Whatever the facts of Operation Broken Reed, I think LTC Boyd did himself a disservice by using novelist Michael Peterson as a ghost writer because the style of the book sounds more fictional than LTC Boyd presumably intended. (Peterson seems to have a flair for invention. According to a Wikipedia entry, he has claimed he received a Purple Heart as a Marine for injuries in a car accident. If so, that must be a first for the USMC.) There's an awful lot of detailed dialogue quoted throughout the book. And although certain intense events do make a lasting impression, recounting minute-by-minute conversational details after the lapse of a half century seems strained at best. While writing this, I read a June 6 Washington Post review by Jonathan Yardley of quite a different book in which Yardley saw the identical problem. Writing of that book's "frequent and extended passages of dialogue," Yardley "can't help wondering ... how much is accurately remembered and how much is sheer invention."
I know from several things LTC Boyd has written that he believes in Broken Reed. Ultimately, he knows what he did. I am more or less willing to accept that the operation took place but I think that the organizers of the mission gave then-LT Boyd an exaggerated impression of its significance, though not of its dangers.
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