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Lee, Hu-rak
Yi became the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) in 1970 and led the 4 July 1972 North-South Joint Communique.
LEE HU-RAK (1924-2009). Born in Busan, Lee served as a noncommissioned officer in the army during the Japanese colonial period. He attended the Republic of Korea (ROK) Military Academy after liberation, and from 1963 to 1970 he served as private secretary to President Park Chung Hee. After a brief period as ambassador to Japan in 1970, he became director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA; now the National Intelligence Service of the ROK) the same year. In May 1972, he visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as Park's special envoy. Later that same month, he hosted a return DPRK visit, led by Vice Premier Pak Seong-cheol, which led to the 4 July 1972 North-South Joint Communique. Lee lost his job in 1973 over the KCIA' s kidnapping of opposition leader Kim Dae-jung. In 1979, Lee was elected to the ROK National Assembly but was purged for corruption and banned from politics in 1980. The ban was lifted in 1985 but Lee never returned to public life.
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