This happened in the summer of 1969, when protests against the Park Chung-hee government's attempt to amend the Constitution for a third term were in full swing in university areas. The government violently suppressed the protests, and in the process, something happened that embarrassed the U.S. Embassy in Korea, which on the surface had nothing to do with the third constitutional amendment. A sign from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) informing the truck that the police officers dispatched to suppress it was a vehicle that received aid from the U.S....