SOUTH KOREA. SPY AGENCY UNEARTHS MOST SHAMEFUL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

South Korea's spy agency said that eight innocent men were tortured and sent to their deaths in 1975 by the military government of late dictator Park Chung-Hee in a case that ranked as the nation's worst miscarriage of justice.
The executions were orchestrated by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), which mounted a red scare conspiracy to divert public attention from discontent over Park's dictatorship.
In 1974 demonstrations by students and dissidents opposing Park's authoritarian rule swept the country, the spy agency said in a report on an internal probe of the events surrounding the executions of the eight dissidents.
The KCIA, which was reborn as the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in the 1990s, arrested some 1,000 protesters and indicted 24 of them for establishing a pro-North Korean party which it said was devoted to overthrowing the South Korean government. But the so-called "People's Revolutionary Party" or Inhyoktang never existed. It was a complete fabrication by the spy agency, the NIS report said.
The KCIA tortured detainees to secure confessions and doctored depositions in a conspiracy to create evidence to file charges of treason against eight of the detainees for setting up the imaginary pro-North Korean communist party.
Eight of the accused, all denying the charges, were sentenced to death by a military court. They were hanged just 18 hours after the Supreme Court upheld the verdict on April 8, 1975.
"We can judge without difficulty that the presidential Blue House set guidelines to carry out the executions immediately after the conviction at the Supreme Court," the panel said.