In 22 June 1977 , he testified to the Fraser committee about the Koreagate scandal and the activities of Tongsun Park . He also claimed that the Japanese police had had foreknowledge of the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung . Park had offered him $ 1 million not to testify , which Kim refused . Kim accepted $ 500,000 not to publish his memoirs , but reneged on the deal and published them in Japan in April 1979 . He disappeared on 7 October 1979 , after last being seen in a Paris nightclub . A popular rumor is that Kim was smuggled back to Seoul and personally shot by President Park in the basement of the Blue House . This version was shown in part 12 of the North Korean film series '' Nation and Destiny '' . His memoirs were published in South Korea in 1985 . In February 2005 , the '' Wolgan Chosun '' published claims that Kim had been lured from New Jersey to Paris by a hired female entertainer and then been murdered by a French criminal syndicate in pay of the South Korean government . In May 2005 , a report from the National Intelligence Service 's Truth Commission concluded that Kim had been killed on the orders of Kim Jae-kyu , his successor as director of the KCIA . He was reportedly shot with a silencer pistol and his body was dumped in the woods outside Paris . Three weeks after Kim Hyong-uk 's disappearance , Kim Jae-kyu assassinated President Park
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