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(1)Dosan Ahn Chang-ho and Syngman Rhee
(2)2024-02-15 Neck Philip An Cuddy Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, maternal grandchild
(3)Lee Hye-ryeon Helen An, Dosan’s wife and my grandmother, considered Dosan’s one-time support for Rhee Syngman as his biggest mistake Since the days of the independence association in the 1890s, Syngman Rhee has mainly stood against him and spread false information about him, causing great difficulties to his family and bankruptcy throughout the entire independence movement. Not many people know that since Syngman Rhee took the Korean government into his hands in 1948, he has prevented his aides and family from returning to or visiting Korea It lasted until 1963
(4)There is an important flaw in the current historical evaluation of Syngman Rhee Is he really an honorable independence activist? The misunderstanding some Koreans and Korean-Americans have is more worrisome than expected. In the days of active independence movement, he was more of a leader with selfish power desires than a commitment to Korean interests Do they really know that he has betrayed the patriots who were sacrificing their lives for the independence movement many times
(5)Syngman Rhee formed a Dongji Association to counter the bankruptcy of the Korean People’s Association, embezzled funds from the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and took away funds raised for the independence movement in Shanghai The Korean American Association United Korean Committee left many official reports on how Rhee interfered with the independence movement during the period from the early 1940s to after the Korean War The association could not participate in the Korea-U.S. alliance because it tried to steal the provisional government funds
(6)These documents I donated are currently in storage at the Independence Hall of Korea and the University of Hawaii. Besides this, I still have original documents about Rhee Syngman’s confusing and negative leadership, and of course I have a copy of what I donated
(7)After 1945, Syngman Rhee banned members of the Korean-American Association from entering Korea because he claimed that the Korean-American Association was also communist, just as he reported to the U.S. military government that all members of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea were communist
(8)In 1925, Syngman Rhee submitted a false report to the United States, leading to Dosan’s arrest in Chicago He falsely reported that Dosan was a Bolshevik communist and claimed that the Korean People’s Association and the Heungmin Division were anti-American forces threatening U.S. securityThis leads the U.S. government to seize and search Dosan’s home in Los Angeles This claim by Syngman Rhee and the Dongji Association complicated the situation of Dosan, who was arrested in Shanghai after Yoon Bong-gil’s bomb attack in Hongkou Park in 1932 Dosan was imprisoned in Korea to prevent him from returning to the U.S. under the suspicion of being a Bolshevik If Syngman Rhee’s claims were true, how could Dosan’s daughter and my mother, Susan Ahn Cuddy, work for the U.S. Navy intelligence and become the top analyst at the National Security Agency
(9)Kim Gu, who was president of the Provisional Government, was very close to Dosan’s family He was also a founding member of Dosan’s New People’s Association in the early 1900s and once promised to marry Ahn Shin-ho, Dosan’s younger sister Kim Gu once sent a message to my grandmother, and in 1941 he sent a Korean flag with praise for Dosan This flag is currently kept in the Independence Hall of Korea When the shocking news of Kim Gu’s assassination broke in 1949, no one in Dosan’s family thought that Rhee Syngman would be free from the responsibility It was because Rhee was well known for his corrupt ideology along with violent conflicts in Hawaii in the past Syngman Rhee tried to kill Park Yong-man during the Hawaii conflict in 1915 Park Yong-man worked for the Korean People’s Association at the time and was a close colleague of Dosan from 1897 until he was assassinated in 1928
(10)Syngman Rhee was not an honest man, contrary to what some claimed Dosan, who saw Syngman Rhee next to him, and the history my family knows is quite different from the stories in the Korean media now
(11)My grandfather was arrested and imprisoned by vicious Japanese colonialists
(12)And after suffering, Ahn Chang-ho was killed. Ahn Chang-ho, Dosan, saw the door of his own
(13)I sacrificed my life with my family and devoted myself to the Republic of Korea the present
(14)It was Dosan’s true leadership that helped Korea’s existence
(15)It’s probably not a false act of Syngman Rhee. Facts about distorted history
(16)I believe that some Koreans and Korean-Americans think that it’s a hit
(17)It’s so close
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Philip An Cuddy
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Dosan Ahn Chang-ho’s eldest daughter and Philip Ahn Cuddy’s mother
She was the first Asian female officer in the U.S. Army and the first female aircraft officer in the U.S. Navy
Susan An Kudian-Susan, a former NSA secret intelligence analyst