 Information about the refugee killings reached the U.S. command in Korea , and the Pentagon , by late August 1950 , in the form of a captured and translated North Korean military document , which reported the discovery of the massacre . A South Korean agent for the U.S. counterintelligence command confirmed that account with local villagers weeks later , when U.S. troops moved back through the area , the ex @-@ agent told U.S. investigators in 2000 . Evidence of high @-@ level knowledge also appeared in late September 1950 in a New York Times article from Korea , which reported , without further detail , that an unnamed high @-@ ranking U.S. officer told the reporter of the " panicky " shooting of " many civilians " by a U.S. Army regiment that July . No evidence has emerged , however , that the U.S. military investigated the incident at the time . 
