"The first part of the war the prisoners belonged to the North Koreans but after the Chinese got in the war in October November 1950 they began to take over all the prisoner of war administration and they applied this lenient policy high re-education policy to the prisoners. They didn't have very much success with officers and NCO's in particular and they didn't have that much success with the majority of soldiers but they did have success with some and that was blown up in a propaganda way. Then they settled on things like the ill treatment of their own prisoners in Koge but we couldn't do anything about that. Then they settled on germ warfare and they rattled that along the whole of the period of the peace negotiations.

"Now the peace negotiations started in January 1951 and didn't come to a satisfactory truce until August 1953. So in that intervening period this battle of ideology was pursued in the prisoner of war camps and we were the people who had to resist it in every way we could. Bill Wilson, who I mentioned was our American commander in the camp, he disappeared from our camp in January and he was in a hole in the ground until released. We had a number of other Americans who were removed and were put under intense pressure to make false confessions about germ warfare. So this was the struggle that went on inside the prisoner of war camps".

CAPTAIN PHIL GREVILLE