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[Jan Klimkowski]

Senate disclosures and press coverage regarding past activities of the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald and Richard Case Nagell disturb members of the Japanese government.

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CIA ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN

https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1...286_b.html

Anthony - thank you.

This one deserves quoting in full.

In addition to the Lee Harvey Oswald and Richard Case Nagell references, note talk of LSD experimentation at Atsugi base where Oswald was stationed.

We now know that Atsugi was the largest MK-ULTRA field operational base outside the USA.

There is also mention of the mysterious "MK-ULTRA iceberg" project known as Operation Derby Hat.

CIA ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN
Date:
1976 April 28, 09:55 (Wednesday)

Canonical ID:
1976TOKYO06286_b
Original Classification:
LIMITED OFFICIAL USE

Current Classification:
UNCLASSIFIED
Handling Restrictions:
-- N/A or Blank --

Character Count:
6163
Executive Order:
-- N/A or Blank --

Locator:
TEXT ON MICROFILM,TEXT ONLINE
TAGS:
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency | JA - Japan; Okinawa; | PINT - Political Affairs--Internal Political Affairs | US - United States

Concepts:
ALLEGATIONS | CENTRAL LEGISLATURE | ESPIONAGE AGENTS | INTERVENTION
Enclosure:
-- N/A or Blank --

Type:
TE
Office Origin:
-- N/A or Blank --

Office Action:
ACTION EA

Archive Status:
Electronic Telegrams
From:
Japan Tokyo

Markings:
Margaret P. Grafeld Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006
To:
Commander United States Forces Japan | Commander in Chief US Pacific Command | Department of State | South Korea Seoul



SUMMARY. PAST TWO DAYS HAVE SEEN A FLURRY OF REPORTING ON ALLEGED CIA ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN, MOSTLY STIMULATED BY RELEASE OF SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT IN WASHINGTON. GOJ WAS QUESTIONED ON CIA IN APRIL 27 DIET SESSION. PRESS COVERED SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT EXTENSIVELY AND FONOFF REACTION TO ALLEGATIONS THAT US BASES HAD BEEN USED FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS. END SUMMARY.

1. REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON AND DIET INTERPELLATIONS GAVE NEW LIFE TO COVERAGE OF CIA AND OTHER US INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN APRIL 27 EVENING AND APRIL 28 MORNING PRESS.

2. FOLLOWING IS APRIL 27 UPPER HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE EXCHANGE ON CIA BETWEEN (JAPAN COMMUNIST PARTY) JCP'S KOICHIRO UEDA AND GOVERNMENT SPOKESMEN (ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM ASAHI LIMITED OFFICIAL USE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 02 TOKYO 06286 281129Z TRANSCRIPT): UEDA: THERE IS SUSPICION THAT IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF THE CIA ARE IN JAPAN. SHOULDN'T THEY BE ASKED TO LEAVE? FONMIN MIYAZAWA: ORGANIZED CIA ACTIVITIES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN JAPAN AND THIS HAS BEEN THE POLICY UP UNTIL NOW. WHETHER ONE IS A MEMBER OF CIA OR NOT, IF A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT DOES SOMETHING OFFENSIVE TO JAPANESE SOVEREIGNTY, WE WILL DECLARE HIM PERSONA NON GRATA AND ASK HIM TO LEAVE JAPAN. UEDA: WILL YOU NOT INVESTIGATE? FONMIN: IF THERE SHOULD BE A CONCRETE ILLEGAL ACT WHICH DAMAGES THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE, WE COULD LODGE A COMPLAINT. ASIDE FROM THIS, WE INTEND TO DO NOTHING.

UEDA: FORMER HIGH-RANKING STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL HILLSMAN SAID THAT THE CIA GAVE MONEY TO ONE OR MORE POLITICAL PARTIES IN JAPAN. IF IT WAS THE RULING PARTY THAT RECEIVED THE MONEY, WHAT DO YOU INTEND TO DO? PRIMIN MIKI: AS THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS QUESTION, WE HAVE QUESTIONED ALL OF THE FORMER LDP FINANCE CHAIRMEN, AND FOUND THAT CIA MONEY HAS DEFINITELY NEVER FLOWED TO THE LDP. UEDA: IS NOT THE FONMIN EXCHANGING INFORMATION WITH CIA PERSONNEL? FONMIN: IT IS NOT. UEDA: HOW ABOUT THE CABINET REASEARCH OFFICE (CRO)? CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY IDE: ABSOLUTELY NOT.

UEDA: I HAVE A 1955 CRO DOCUMENT. REGISTERED NUMBER 129, CASE NUMBER 36. IN THIS DOCUMENT IS WRITTEN THAT LIAISON SHOULD BE MAINTAINED WITH THE FOLLOWING ORGANI- ZATIONS: CIA, CIC, OSI, ONI, OTHER US INTELLIGENCE ORGANI- ZATIONS AND AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. IDE: THE PRESENT CRO WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1957. UEDA: HOW ABOUTS ITS PREDECESSOR? IDE: WITHIN THE PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE (PMO) THERE WAS "SECRETARIAT RESEARCH CHAMBER." UEDA: THE ORGANIZATION I SPOKE OF WAS THE ONE AT THAT TIME, IS THERE ANY CONTINUITY? PMO GENERAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR UEKI: I WILL INQUIRE ABOUT THINGS AT THAT TIME. UEDA: ARE NOT THE SELF DEFENSE FORCES SECRETLY COOPERATING WITH THE CIA, KCIA, ETC$571'3 '3//2 84GEN SAKATA: THE JDA HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RELATIONS WITH THE CIA OR KCIA. LIMITED OFFICIAL USE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 03 TOKYO 06286 281129Z

3. BUDGET COMMITTEE EXCHANGES ON 500 MI ACTIVITIES IS BEING REPORTED SEPTEL.

4. WASHINGTON DATELINE APRIL 27 EVENING PRESS ACCOUNTS OF RELEASE OF SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES TENDED TO FOCUS ON CIA BACKING OF AIR AMERICA, CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT, SOUTHERN AIR TRANSPORT, ETC., AND USE BY AIR AMERICA AND SAT OF TACHIKAWA AIR BASE IN THE 1960S. AS A BASE FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS. ACCOUNTS ALSO REFERRED TO OPERATION "DERBY HAT" WHICH SENATE REPORT STATES WAS CONDUCTED IN FAR EAST AND SPECULATES WHETHER IT MIGHT NOT BE RALATED TO PREVIOUSLY ALLEGED CIA EXPERIMENTATION WITH LSD ON HUMANS AT ATSUGI NAS (TOKYO 4979). (TOKYO TEXT OF YOMIURI ACCOUNT IS CARRIED BY FBIS.)

5. APRIL 28 YOMIURI ALSO CARRIES REPORT THAT FONMIN HAS OPENED AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS BY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT THAT TACHIKAWA HAD BEEN USED AS BASE FOR CIA OPERATIONS IN ASIA. REPORT ADDED, HOWEVER, THAT FONMIN DID NOT INTEND TO SEEK ASSISTANCE OF US AUTHORITIES IN DOING SO.

6. IN A RELATED STORY, APRIL 28 YOMIURI CARRIES REPORT FROM WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT TAKAHAMA WHICH REPORTS DISCOVERY OF A "CONFESSION" OF FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN, RICHARD C. NAGEL (PHONETIC), WHO HAD BEEN STATIONED IN JAPAN AND ROK FROM 1956-58, ALLEGEDLY UNDER CIA DIRECTION. ACCORDING TO NAGEL, THE CIA INDIRECTLY ASSISTED IN THE PLAN TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT RHEE IN OCTOBER 1956 AND ASSISTED MANY AGENTS IN SURREPTITIOUS ENTRIES INTO JAPAN, USING FALSE US PASSPORTS. REPORT ALLEGES THAT NAGEL BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD WHILE IN JAPAN AND THAT HE KNEW OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION BEFOREHAND. (FULL TEXT BY FBIS)

7. IN AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN APRIL 28 JAPAN TIMES, BUT NOT IN JAPANESE PRESS, TOKYO BUSINESS EXECUTIVE HYAKUSABURO IKEDA, ALLEGES THAT HE TRAVELLED TO CHINA IN 1950 AS AN AGENT FOR A US INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, PURPORTEDLY TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF US POWS. ACCORDING TO IKEDA, HE AND SEVERAL OTHERS DEPARTED FOR CHINA IN DECEMBER 1950 AND WERE ARRESTED BY CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN JANUARY 1951, AND LIMITED OFFICIAL USE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 04 TOKYO 06286 281129Z IMPRISONED FOR SIX AND A HALF YEARS. IKEDA SAID THAT THE OPERATION WAS DIRECTED BY G-2 OF GHO AND RELATED TO THE ACTIVITIES OF YOSHIO KODAMA.

8. COMMENT. DESPITE EXTENSIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF WASHINGTON REPORTS OF US INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES, THERE HAS BEEN REMARKABLY LITTLE COMMENT THUS FAR. WASHINGTON REPORTS PROVIDE EXCELLENT AMMUNITION FOR JCP ATTACKS ON THE GOVERNMENT IN THE DIET, HOWEVER, AND JCP WILL TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO USE THEM TO ADVANTAGE. CIA ISSUE WAS NOT RAISED IN HIGH-EXPOSURE APRIL 28 UPPER HOUSE BUGET COMMITTEE SESSION AND ONLY ONE MORE DAY REMAINS TO UTILIZE THIS FORUM. ISSUE COULD CONCEIVABLY BE RAISED IN OTHER COMMITTEE HEARINGS, HOWEVER, WHICH RECEIVE LESS PUBLICITY AND ARE NOT SCHEDULED TO RESUME UNTIL AFTER MAY HOLIDAYS. HODGSON LIMITED OFFICIAL USE NNN

From Acid Dreams' author Martin Lee:

Documents pertaining to Operation Derby Hat record the results of several EA-1729 interrogations conducted by the Army in the Far East during the early 1960s. One subject vomited three times and stated that he "wanted to die" after he had been slipped some LSD. His reaction was described as "moderate".

After another target absorbed triple the dose normally used in such sessions, he kept collapsing and hitting his head on a table. "The subject voiced an anti-communist line," an Army report noted, "and begged to be spared the torture he was receiving. In this confused state he even asked to be killed in order to alleviate his suffering."

From Mae Brussell's Operation Chaos:

July 1961 LSD READY FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES.


Feb. 1962 OPERATION DERBY HAT
Hawaii military bases, LSD experiments.