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[16]eYBAT WipASHA REDTOP - Beheiren and the Four U.S. Navy Deserters
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[20]; ' As noted in reference, forwarded herewith is a copy of the sub-
[21]haf - : ject memorandum, Please ‘note. that the information in the memorandum
[22]7 "Paragraph B. 4. b) is particularly sensitive and should only be
[24]. a given properly restricted dissemination. o
[25]Mark J. Laps ae
[26]_ ATTACHMENT .:. — ae
[27]'. Memo dtd 27 Nov. 67 .
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[51]; : “Respectabie 3 Inteilectuat Front:  Followin fund ~
[52]mental Communist principles for mass moverent sits (better,
[53]than the JCP itself follows these tenets), the ex-JCP _.
[54]organizers of BEREIREN kept themseivos in’ the background |
[56]‘and lined up 2 number of prominent Jepanese progressive .\--
[57]intellectuals and leftist cultured persons to front for _
[58]BEHEIREN, The choice of ODA Makoto, ex-Fulbrighter and .- ~
[59]popular young novelist, to b@ the chief front man ~ Chair=
[60]man - was an extremely lucky stroke for BEERIREN. ODA has
[61]‘taken to this grand-standing, front work liko a duck to .
[62]water. it has given him 2 chance to give unbridled vent to”
[63]his own latent anti-American foolings, puffed him up to the ° 7
[64]extent that he has been dubbed “the emperor" by other BEHEIREN vot
[65]activists, and given him at long last an ideological mission » |...
[66]to pursue. ‘YOSHIKAWA has performed magnificently in feeding ces
[67]ODA's ege needs and in infusing and indoctrinating ODA se ...3....
[68]that his words and actions take on sufficiently virulent
[69]anti-American overtones. GDA has served another vital . ;
[70]function for BEHEIREN by recruiting a sizeable number of. an
[71]‘fellow intellectuzis te join the ranks of BEREIREN activists. _ can
[72](Attachment 1 is a listing of a number of those Japanese who |...
[73]‘have been identified as active BEBEIREN Suppor tors | or sympa~
[74]thizers.) .
[76]or; anizational Development: In dts 2- 1/2 ‘year history, =.
[77]BEERTREN” aB not appreciably changed its organizational format, ..
[78]‘although it has moved its office three tines and modified its. -—
[79]mame even oftener. BEREIREN is not a “mass organization”, hex, mo
[80]cause it has had no sizeable popular backing to the present -
[81]tine. Its hard core, secretariat organization is run by . :
[82]YOSHIKAWA and his lieutenants. Its public image, intelicctual
[84]front is led by ODA, and given body by a:score of like-minded —
[85]“intellectual friends of ODA and YOSHXKAGA, who form the loose -
[86]body of BEHEIREN's activist leadership.: Under this BEMEIREN
[87]dJeadership superstructure lies a paltry base of only several -
[88]‘hundred BEHEIREN “rank-and-file“:supporters, mostly young =."
[89]‘Japanese students. Organizationally, BEREIREN has no forms]
[90]menbership system, so its base of supporters is fluid and not.
[91]precisely measur2ble.: However, the base support for EEHEIREN °.
[92]-has definitely been on the upswing during 1967, and made such. *
[94]notable strides during the past summer that JCP Headquarters =.
[95]officials finally felt conStrained to note with concern. that =.
[96]BEREIREN was beginning to drain off a growing number of-pro- °°
[97]‘gressive youth who otherwise would have been absorbed into 9 9...
[98]the JCP's own youth movement. BEERIREN leaders have tried to...
[99]help this growth along by setting up a youth section, calling :
[101]it "Young BEHEIREN.” BEERIREN's imaginative actions and . oO
[102]. publicity-conscious programs have been oeponsibio Lor: its *
[104]fos recent growth, aad this peried of Grows seens to be now en
[107]the verge’ of ¢ renily pieking « up speed and momentum.” ‘Ag a ‘result ar
[108]of its role in the case of the four deserting sailors, BEWEIREN ~~
[109]‘has reaped bountiful publicity, has succeeded in touching a coe
[110]- delicate Jnpanese. public nerve of sympathy and pacifism, open- =) -
[111]ing a floodgate of support for BEHEIREN from a1] over Japan. -
[112]When this case fades from the limelight, it’ is still most .
[114]likely that a fair percentage of current wave of popular ~ a
[115]‘ support for ett will solid ermanent mass backing, —
[117]x the first time ES ._meandng ul base to. Tare
[119]_ Support te future activities,
[121]eB | Activities and Accomplishnents: " REHEIREN has engaged”
[122]in a number of propaganda actions, and participated in inter- -
[123]national anti-Vietnam War activities. It has tried to co- |.
[124]operate with certain front activities in Japan controlied by
[125]‘the JCP, most notably the Japan Committee to Investigate War -
[126]Crimes in Vietnam activitiés, which culminated in the Tokyo —
[127]- Court of last Atigust, but has been soundly and rudely rebuffed
[128]-by the JCP... In spite of this, BEHEIREN bas churned along at. °
[129]: its own pace, with a continuing series of anti-Vietnan war: --
[130]_ actions, most of them related in some way to the American coe aoe
[131]“pacifist movement. In this regard, BEHEIREN has succeeded in. -
[132]‘cornering a virtual monopoly on Japanese contacts with the U.S. =).
[133]“ pacizist movements, and has effectually capitalized on this to
[134]promote its own action program. The case of the four deserting |
[135]sailors, while an -spparent lucky windfall for BEHEIREN, only
[136]points up the fact that BEHEIREN, through past organizational .
[137]‘work and promotional activities, was “johnny~on-the-spot",
[138]‘vyeady and capable (unique in Japan in this regard) to take |
[139]. the ball and run with it. BEHEIREN ran all the way in this
[140]- case and scored its most notable success since it was organized. |.
[141]- (Attachment 2 is a listing of BERRIREN's more notable activitios
[142]_ since its founding. Attachment 3 is a partial listing of . :
[143]American and other foreign persons kno to have been an.
[144]contact with or . cooperated with BEHEI > ae “ a
[146]“The Case of the Four Sailor Doserters and SEBEIREN.
[148]v ls How It Started: The consensus” of all ‘available overt -
[149]medina material, with no recorded dissent, indicates that the
[151]~ four sailors voluntarily left their ship, went AWOL, and ended |
[152]up wallowing around Tokyo's hippie-land. = Precisely what. personal :
[153]grievances prompted the four to embark on this mis-adventure is es
[154]not yet known. But, up to this point, the four could fairly be _
[155]“ gategorized ag misguided youngsters, gone astray in a foreign’. :
[156]Zand, and due to get slapped back in line with traditional . we
[158]: Navy justice when they finally decided to stop the fun and go.
[160]- haek to the BMAP. So far, this made their canes far from eee
[162]Pee SECRET.
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[167]? How It Becare an Incident: But nstead of returning to
[168]theirs ship. of their own Volition or being apprehended by tha
[169]Shore Patrol, the four made contact with BBHEIREN leaders.
[170]Again, press reports indicate that ‘this was just a coincidence,
[171]that. there was no pre-planning by the four to contact BEHEIREN.
[172]There are ‘Ro available overt nor ‘covert reports that indicate
[173]otherwise.’ But, once the BEHEIREN people nade contact, they .
[174]recognized. the potential inmediately and: moved fast for the
[175]xill.:: _Gttachnent 4 fe a Yoniuri Newspaper clipping, 22 Nov~-
[176]ember 1967, that is both a representative and comprehensive —
[177]account of this phase of the case.’. Even if this article .
[178]should contzin some minor inaccuracies, the basic dine seens
[179]actual aad bas not been challenged cleewhere. Yo aye a.
[181]re ‘RETIEIREN Takes over: hen: the ‘four made contact with
[182]“RBEEEIREN, it puddeniy becase an entirely different ballgane. .
[183]-BEHSIREN had everything needed to capitalize on this: veteran
[184]activist leaders who are experieuced enough to recognize the ,
[185]‘windfall that had come their way; an apparatus that could .
[186]“provide hiding places for the four; long standing liaison.
[188]- contacts with Soviet Embassy officials for use in piecning
[189].@xit from Japan; solid conta reliable American - -
[190]*pacifists with whom the bona fides of the four sailors could |
[191]be checked; money and organization to capitalize on the |.
[193]: propaganda potential (such as preparing a movie film for the
[194]initial BEHEIREN press conference announcing the desertion, - of
[195]prepared more likely than not by BEHRIREN stalvart
[197]Kein an independent film producer)? and Bugiish epeaking
[199].* ° ‘The ) BERRTREN Appar aratus At Work: - “Whe many of the. a
[200]anall pieces of this puzzle, which Soule put the whole case an
[201]proper detailed chronological order and elininste speculation
[202]on minor points, are still missing, enough is known now, .
[203]through overt and covert sources, that the picture of BEYEIREN's
[204]=adept handling of this case shines through clearly. The fLollow~-
[205]ing Sloments » ail part of. the BEEDIREN APPASTUS 5 make. “Up the ae
[207]ule of: the ‘picture B 4
[209]+t, we te icky
[211]; “eel? a) Hide-out:. When EBERCIREN got hold of the four on _ v4 7
[212]F about’ 26 October, they had to be hiden ont for the appr sfente” 7
[213]two. week period until their exit fron Japan could be arranged...
[214]" This presented BEHEIREN no. ereat logistical problem. .A number.”
[215]ef the EESSIREN activist leaders have homes vell suited to an
[216]* "harboring jugitives. For example, BEHEIREN activist leader | ~
[217]has 2 villa hidden avay in Chigasaki, which
[218]“was used on the night of 12 September for a meeting of about —.
[219]-20 top BEEEIEEN leaders, and which would be highly suitable | a,
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[224]~ fer hiding the four desorters. Other private.d -
[225]’ longing; to BEXEIREN leaders and loyal eae
[226]u remanent both ‘the Kanto and Kansai sreas,
[228]od _ b) BELEIREN/Soviet Linison: PEBEINEN Seeretaxy | Genera
[229]- FOSUIEANA has maintained periodic contact with Soviet Embassy
[230]officials for years. BEYSIREN Chairman ODA hes met Soviet
[231]_ Peace Committee officials in Hoscow. - The exact rears of how —
[232]- this Jiaison was accomplished in this case is precisely known_
[233](from a covert phone tap on the Soviet Embassy's line. <A full
[234]Ltranscript. is available of two phone calis{[made on
[235]. first by Brian o Chief Press Attache Nikolay
[236]“ Vasilyevich, and second by YOSINKAWA to First Secretary oo
[237]Sergey D. Anisinov, urgently requesting a private mecting ae
[238]later that day to discuss “an extremely important, extrencly:_
[239]7 delicate matter", without doubt the case. o2 the four sailors.
[241]fe Ne eb. BEREIREN/U. S. Pacifist Liaison: BENEIREN contacted’
[242]: Dartmouth’ University professor Ernest. P. Young, who flew to °.
[243]. Japan om & November, apparently helped BEEEIREN leaders check.
[245]. out the bona fides of the deserters, and returned to the U.S. -.
[247]On 11 November, (Attachment § isthe transintion of a Sankei _
[248]. Shimbun article, dated 21 November, reporting an interview mo
[249]with Young, giving his version of his role in this case. yo:
[251]; 5. Esca to Yoscow: - ‘the four deserters. turned up ‘dn:
[252]moxcow on m 20 ovenber. The press has speculeted widely and
[253]unanimously that the four left Japan on tke Soviet passenger |
[255]. ship Baikal on 11 November. Again, there is no dissenting =.
[256]- opinion, overt nor covert. The only mystery concerning this
[257]final phase of the Japanese portion of this case concerns the |°
[258]mechanics of how the four boarded the Baikal and who assisted: —
[259]in this manenuver. But with the sailing of the Baikal from *.
[260]Yokohawa, BDEXSIREN coupleted its most bighiy successful and =). -
[261]heautifully executed activity in its 2 1/2 year history. Not a
[262]only did BEBEIREN smear the American Government's image ino 00
[263]Japan, not only did SEHEIREN gain 2a vast amount of priceless -
[264]. publicity that will swell the ranks of its supporters anc be
[265]invaluable in future activitios, but BESEIREN doubtlessly - a
[266]even made a prozit, financially, on this low budget operstion nee
[267]~ donations are still pouring into BERLIREN Headquarters fron. wt
[268]all over Japan “help and protect U.8 deserters”. & eee
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[273]y SOSHTRAWA Yuichi (BEHEIREN Seoretary General) - ~ former sop’
[274]“SS ymember . ; 2
[276]3 ODA Wakote ‘GumEinen Chesrman) - popular novelist.
[277]“ KAKO ion -~ Akutagaca prize winning novelist. :
[278].. KUBO Keinosuke | - ‘film producer and irector. o
[279]_ sTSURUET ‘Shunsuke - Doshigha University professor ae
[281]” TSURUMY Kazuko ~ sister of Shunsuke (thoir father is the ‘late 28
[282]a philosopher, Yusuke)». ere eg
[284]rt. EURUYAMA Yozo - bigh school teacher.
[286]a KOTO Yohs 10 ~ “exaJCP (tried to ‘travel ‘te Us. ‘to: represent
[287]” BEREIREN at October 21 demonstrations this year, but wae
[288]7 denied, a visa to ) enter | the a. +8), .
[290]+) TOAENAGA Iehire ~ - cartoonist
[291]a ‘FUKASAED i Witeusada ~ ‘professor:
[292]a AWAZU Kiyoshi + =” - graphic designer.
[293]i. TAKADO Kanane ~ - Christian leader.
[294]- yOSHTDA Riga - - - fim director.
[295]“UMNTHARA Shun - = . writer.
[296]; ‘HASEIMOTO ineo - 2 Buddhist priest
[297]g .. HORTA Yosh ie ~- novelist. :
[298]8. GOTO. Hiroyult - = scientist.
[300].. KUWABARA Takeo - - - professor & at : Kyoto 0 University.
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[305]5 = TERAL Hinako o
[306]oS ARAL “‘Funihiko,
[307]a NASU Masanao - ¥
[308]MATSUMOTO Tebiju.
[310]_ FURHTGHT Sotsuo
[311]SO. KUBIHANA Yukio —_ |
[312]1. eter” "ANDO Jimbes, CHIBA IBA Hido, EGANA Take, FUSIL Hittetso, ac .
[313]antya Ichiro, HOSHINO Yasusabure,, TOHIE: Saburo, IKBYAUA Suro,
[314]‘ISHIDA Takeshi, ANAT Yoshiko, ASAT. Seiichi, - RATAGIRI Yuzurn, ,
[315]KATO Shuich’, EAZAMA-Michitaro, HATSUURA Soz0, » KEBEEOHO Hasso, |
[316]KITAKOSI Satoshi, KOBAYASHI Bhoichiro, KOWATSU Sakyo,
[317]‘ROBAVASEI Tomi, KUNO Osamu (shu), KURODA Hidetoshi, BARDYAMA
[318]Masao, MIDORIKAWA Toru, WIZUSAWA Yana, NORITAKE Ichiro, fs, fe
[319]“MUCHAKY Seskyo, MURARATSU Hizo, NISHIO Noboru, RONURA Koichi,
[320]‘ososat Terus,, OTSUKOISU Yoshiko, “SERIZAWA Tac, SRA SEIS
[321]SHINMERA Takeshi, SHISHIDO Hiroshi, SUGIURA Hitsuo, SUGIYANA »
[322]‘Tatsusard, SUZUKI Masahira, ‘TAKEUCHI Yoshitono, WADA Ragahisa, :
[323]YAMADA Munenitsu, YAHADA ‘Toshio, YANAGUCHT Kosaku, YAMANESHT | |
[324]ELichi, YASUDA Takeshi, YOSHINO Genzabure, YOSHIFARA Koichiro,,
[325]“ ORAMOTO Taro, MATSUMOTO Seicho, BI Rokusuke, THOT Toke, =
[326]* AWAYA Noriko _EATO Yoshiro, SUTROYAMA Saburo, TAKAHASHE
[327]—_ Takotono, ODAGIRI Hideo, ORUMA Hinoru, SANS Kenji, SUZUEI
[328]oe % Hichiniko, RUBATA Hanya, SHINGHARA HNGHARA Seiei, MARUTAIA funio,
[330]SEG CRET Tr
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[335]“Although not recorded here, |
[336]Bre. ex-JCP BORbELS |.”
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[341]Regular once~per-nonth demonstrations at 2 public ‘park in’
[342]Tokyo, “consisting « of anti~Anerican ,Seeeches and tellowed by street
[344]Sa. Am all ‘night wv “teach-in* with BEHEINEN activist. Jeadors, we
[345]elong with special guest, U. S. pacifist Carl Oglesby (Chairuan ¢ of.
[346]. the ‘Students, gor a Denocratic Society.) . ro. fal.
[348]3. A full page advertisenent in the. New York Tines. ae Noveabor
[349]1965) » Lollowed by another full pare ad in the Washington Fost: oo
[350]; G Aprid 1967), appealing to Americans, to stop the war in Vietnan. 7
[352]he we ‘Meet in Conference of Two Rations ‘for Peace in Vietnam, an
[353]hold in “Tokyo in August 1966, and attended by BEHEIREN activists and -
[354]“seven U.S. pacifist leaders (including Dave Dellinger), and observers
[355]from France, England, Canada, the USSR, Fokistan,. end Mongolia. os
[357]2 52° § mass meeting in Tokyo ‘in ‘October 1966, guest speakers of
[358]. which were Preach pacifists » sean-Paul Sartre and Simone de. Beaavoiz .
[360]- 65 “Nationwide tours of Japan for Lectures and peace ‘rall ges for .
[361]such anti-Vietnan war pacifists as Professor Howard Sinn and the late
[363]te of the Tnited States, Claude e Bourdet ‘of Frances and Thica
[364]Nhat Hanh of South Vietnam. # Tomige tance :
[366]a oA mass meeting ‘in Tokyo in | January. 1967, sponsored oe
[367]‘BREET and featuring u.5. folk singer and. pacifist Joan Baez.
[369]ee 7: : A continuing program of direct distribution of panphiets to.
[370]“we S. troops stationed in Japan, and those coming to Janan on. ‘warships, ’
[371], and for rest or hospitalization fron Vietnaz. Lowey
[373]: gy: ‘Participation by ‘two BEREIREN activist leaders (Kyoto. °-
[375]° University professor KUWABARA Takeo and International Rouse staffer
[376]TSURUUI Yosbikyuict taking advantage of a trip to the U.S. to attend”
[378]a Hon-political Japan-fmerica Congress on Cultural Problems} in. -.-_.
[379]anti-Vietnam war Speech rallies and cenonstrations at Dartmouth ne
[381]University in early Hay 1967, followed by an unsuccessful attempt. .
[383]£0 invite Cassius Clay to visit Japan on -bebalf of ‘BEEEIREN.
[385]Continuing efforts to bring to ‘Japan for a nat somvi¢ ae - cf
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[390]to our on bonalt of  BENSTARH, ‘Soviet: poet ‘Yevgeni Yovtu ughenke,
[391]that has not, yet reached fruition but “is sti por” aS
[393]"* “participation in the Stockholm July 1967 “World Conferezee 2
[394]yiotsen," by sending two BENE IREN activist leaders as dolegates.
[396]12° Cooperation ‘with the! ‘v. Ss. Qankers,: pacifists, and Earle
[397]ynolds iu sending the yacht “Phoenix” with medical 2id, first to -
[398]jphong, then on o second trip in the Fall of 1967, secking but
[400]yatiing to find tandfal1. to deliver medical nid to > edthor North or ° -
[401]gouth Vietnam, ee |
[403]13.  Rttenpted, “put failed due to inability to , obtain Uv. ‘Ss. visa,
[404]to send a BEHEIREN activist leader (HUTO Ichiyo) to the U.S. to a
[405]participate in the 21 ‘October 1967 Bnti-\ tetuem War denoastrations. oo
[407]a wali ‘Currently carrying out: a ‘fund rais ing canpaiga to send an
[408]aid ship to. North Vietnam. In this, and other activities, DEHEIREN »
[409]leaders are. maintaining ever closer liaison contact with their . —
[410]counterparts abroad, such as the French “Coiiitet Vietnan Rational Sin
[411]in an effort to generate public stipport for this aid ship
[412]raising campaign, BEMEIREN succeeded in issuing a public appeal,
[414]under the endorsing signatures of Tokyo Governor MINOBE Ryokichi and
[415]Yokohama Mayor ASUKATA Fehsoe as + Wolk as a the 1 usual intellectuals. So
[417]7 4s. ; ‘In October 1967, 1 BERRIREN solicited appioval: ‘to ‘hod anti-.
[418]Vietnam War demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,
[419]expecting ta be denied and then intending to make | ‘this denial a court
[420]test case. Instead, BEEEIREN was given this’ permission, and conducted
[421]two orderly and well-publicized denonstrations in ‘front of the Americar
[422]Enbassy, garnering a lerger public turn out of participants than in.
[423]any Breve ane ‘BEREIREN-sponsored Genonstration. | ,
[425]16. Assisted. ‘and abetted the defection to the USSR of four. a
[426]American sailors from the U.S. Navy carrier ‘intrepid. Following this —
[427]success, BEMEIREN's most effective activity to date, BSEEIREN leaders |
[428]are Organizing a permanent “underground railwny" of Japanese intell— _
[429]ectuals cho will volunteer their hones as possible “way stope" for = |
[431]hiding future U.S. - military ¢ desorters ‘that BENE IBEN now r hopes * to.
[433]other dotaiis, seo 5 Yokyo intelligence reporting
[434]11547, 31 Hay 1966 .
[436]EST-12046, 14 October 1966 7 ws .
[438]i 32680, 10 Mey 1967)... ae
[439]22(FIJT-L2851, 5 July 1967" wo
[441]IE ST-1IG81, & September 1967 .
[443]Q 13154, 27 Septenber 1967 .
[445]13903, 22 Nevember 1967.
[447]- Also, ( AES 8796, il Jaly 1967:
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[452]ATTACHMENT 30
[454]cat *
[456]: partial ‘Listing of of Anertcan and Other Foreign
[457]: Persons Known to Have Been in Contact with or
[459]HL _Looperated with BERRIEN . a
[461]: David Uckeynolds (Chairman, War Resisters'
[463]OO League) :
[465]a. 5. Buste > (now deceased)
[467]. Charlotte Thurber |
[469](Hiss) Quentin Bascett (Students for a Denocratd
[470]; . Society) |
[472]Murray Lovin | Goston uw professor
[474]Se Barbara Deming Ussostnte editor of : Liberation)
[475]2 Joan Baez s folk singer)
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[480]a Ira  worris (paris expatriate)
[482]7 Otto Haisan (phonetic, Hew York eaty penco activis st) ;
[484]Barbara and Rarle Reyoolds (divorced but separately
[486]: - petive iong-tine xesidenta
[487]dn Japan). - .
[489]oa Willian Re ‘Christensen Con American pact fist drifter,
[490]-.Who gave BEDEIREN its first:
[492]: SEperience in the ssummer of
[494]. 2866 in exploiting for pro-.
[496]~ paganda in Japan, and then in
[498]- avranging the onward journey
[500].. Of an American who wanted to”
[502]. defect to the USSB)
[504](head-shaved ‘pacifist ‘and "converted" -
[505]_ Buddhist priest, knew to be in ...0 |
[507]' yegular contact with he. Soviet
[508]_ Embassy. din Tokyo) ©
[510]Brian Victoria
[512]ur. widdowby ‘(fou, phonetic, "chief of the Quaker
[513]7 Tae Heace Action movement in the wv. Ss"). :
[515]. as unidentified ‘Anerdcan of Japanese descent, trom oO
[516]Hawaii, who ds- currently a student at Waseda. Univereity’
[518]Kosaku Yamaguchi “(reportedly born ‘in ‘U.S., ’ “present _
[520] “@ktizenship status unclear) (formerly | ;
[521]was & professor at Honoyana University
[522]40 Osaka, but has been teachin, at the”
[523]niversity of Calizornia in Berkeley |
[525]Other Fore igners. : ba
[527]“) wanada Kotov, ‘USSR ‘Goviet Peace Coanitteo)
[530]Sisude Bourdet,, Francs (french
[531]: z : iy, the Viet opie) eS
[532]Posey. Dutt, ‘ereat Britain Campa for uciea: Bis- go |
[534]‘James ‘Endteott: Canada (ora Pence | Bounces)
[535]"Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistan ma wae
[537]\ Gabita Muslepov,. USSR
[538]“. — Oe
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[542]Bra. Erdeneba t Ojon, Mongolia
[543]& Konstentin Shugnov, USsR
[545]Francis Marcel Kaha, | ‘France © (Conttet Vietnam
[546]re _ Rational) : ‘
[547]~ Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone ‘de Beauvoir France
[550]A
[552]Thich What Hanh, | South Vietnam .
[554]Thig is not, by any means, a complete listing, nor.’
[555]‘does it necessarily list BEHSIREN's most important -
[556]activist contacts abroad. But this List is re-- .
[557]-presentative in showing the breadth of BEHZIREN
[559]jizison abroad, particularly with the American
[560]“new ieft'
[562]SECRET
[565]for the Far. East
[566]re ; aa Net Worriec
[567]” Sources ; np. 7 ai var, | When he. first met the deser
[568]day thay maaan “sald Tues [ata renen corer ees Pennies put rea gPearealh
[569]Way: that the four ‘Americans | y 3: Ce Ty Uneonte ne N BP said quite
[570]could have bodrded the ship by! - Yoshikawa Said “that :the .de/ He said “the Sesetinrs ap.
[571]Special “Bangway for Soviet |; rst. Wanted ~. to" live parently . enjoyed hipple *. life
[572]. ; iy in-Jdpan ‘and aon ed iving on cheap “Japanese food
[574]“ize ANd — drink such as ‘udon
[576](noodles) und shochu, ° -
[577]’. He said the four Americans
[579]Japan irregularly
[580]n_ November 17
[582]guard at another gangway; for
[583]ordinary - passengers when ‘222
[584]listed... . passengers, : -
[585]“elght = America Ns,
[587]Japan If popes vein Japan, and
[588]: : : "the f “Possible in ‘okyo. a
[589]Chama eerere i de; US Pritt Naito and his friend. Yamao
[590].. The: watchmen , Yo.
[592]Py oe @ | pended to ask the help of the.
[593]. : " : eS . : : “and = delivered the:
[594]‘that ‘they didnot . “sald.” oe tour ren and
[596]“son whe Was-not ‘on’ the pas . .- ifour men ito, the Rehelren.
[597]y Senger .. Nst.. board a Fe L-Nalto,." 20 “pain : t
[598]though the ord told ‘The : Yomiurij all the four
[600]mao, a-hippie|had no interest in communist
[601]1 member : of -the| ideology,’ . eee nan
[602]acted as go-betweens| He sald the four must '}
[603]‘Geserters” ang. - the] decided to go to some..ncu
[604]Behetren, rae JCountry -via the -Soviet*: ;
[605]paito . said “-he met two ‘offafter they ‘learned that hey:
[606]jthe. . four. deserters—Airman, could: not. live in’ Japan. + ‘f
[607]Dick. ley..19, and Alrman]|*.-.A spokesman. forthe Justica i
[608]e A. Lindner, 19—at a -hip-+ Ministry * said “Tuesday that
[609]fn | Shinjuku] there Was -, nothing: legally
[610]“yop Wwrong! in the ‘four Americans
[611]‘Américans leaving Japan because the ad-|:
[612]and other! Ministrative “agreement ‘in the!
[613]which y /Japan-US Security Treaty gua-|
[614]wed from their. Yantees US - mii ry -personnel
[615]bpie friends hang-.the right to come, to stay
[616]8 ing around: the Shinjuku: area, Or leave Japan,
[617]d. not to ‘do go.‘ -| ‘Bailey. and“ Lindner and the’,
[618]He neither affirmed wior den ie Oo aemnan bn
[619]ed the report ‘that the Amer. ‘Prentice - Cr, oe
[620]feans left Japan by thé’ Baikal 20—went - around Inu
[621]n November .11,°; . ae Naito. gaid.. . vote ‘
[622]It was the. Behelren’ “which | ¢ Naito’ sald he let Bail and 6 US authorities
[623]| qmuounced «for: the, frst | time Lindner ‘sta ‘overnight *y his made. an official request to the
[624]me aesertion of the four crew house .in Way amiyacho,.. Neri-'Japanese police to search’ for
[625]an mia. Octet. “to -o8-lthem, he added, :
[626]nom . vt He. also said there. were no
[627]apanese Jaws allowing charges
[629]specla
[632]possible” that the
[633]| ranged ‘the deserters’ exit, --. ;
[634]Pons Beheiren Pledge ' pi
[635]’ Yuichi Yoshikawa, Secretary:
[636]Seneral of ‘the. Japan Peace-For
[638]exit]
[641]ih 11, it
[643]anege People who: *
[644]ithe - Americans “in J
[645]jhelped - their departu
[646](Soviet. Union,
[648]apan and
[649]re to the
[652]14-00000
[654]Went! to Tokyo and Tried to Dissuade Them; o>.” aa
[655]“ Frobably Escaped from “apan on. the 12th or the 13th . | 7
[656]* (New York, ' November 20, Correspondent Tadashi ONODERA}"*
[657]= Ernest Pai YOUNG of Dartmouth College in the U. 5.5 ‘consented to an interview
[658]with. this . ‘reporter on the question of the four American seamen who deserted
[659]from the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid. ‘At the interview held on the 19th,
[660]«Professor YOUNG clarified that the.:Peace for Vietnam Association : ‘(Beheiren,
[661]’ with Makoto ODA acting as its ‘vepresentative) | contacted an anti-war organiza~
[662]‘tion in ‘the U.S., and at this, Professor YOUNG hurriedly wisited Tokyo, and -
[663]meeting ‘the four seamen in a room in an apartment ‘house in Tokyo on the 9th
[664]‘and 10th; tried to persuade them to return. In. regard . to ‘the pies ent ‘where
[665]‘abouts - ‘Of: these .four seamen, he. made tthe ‘noteworthy, statement’ “that “those
[666]¢’four were still in Japan, up. until, the. een the HRB phen t
[668]~~ ~ tiny; aia.y you g0 to: Japan? wees we
[669]. professor: | “Beheiren ‘contacted ‘David “DERRINGER, ‘a , pacifist’ activist
[670]in the U.S., asking him to "send someone to Japan to hear the stories of
[671]ythe four seamen. and announce them in the U.S." I have been in Japan’ twic
[672]and I also once served as special. assistant to Ambassador REISCHAUER. ©
[673]During that time, I became friends with Beheiren representative’ ODA' and”
[674]yiiother intellectuals in Japan. It was for these reasons that I was given
[675]vthis: Vieteam wars I personally have | never, ,participated,, actively in Fhe
[677]: ; Professor::. i. arrived, in Haneda ¢ on | November. 8, “and met the four seamen
[678]oon the 9th and the. 10th... The place of interview was in an apartment house”
[679]&4in Tokyo, but I -cannot say. at. this time where that apartment, house was and -
[680]-twho owned it,.-However, on both days, I talked. ‘fully with. these. four seamen,
[681]efor more than three hours. on each occasion (according. to an investigation -:
[682]i made by the public security authorities, Professor. YOUNG. arrived in, Japan
[683]toward the evening of the 8th, and stayed at Hotel Tanakanwa in Shiba,
[684]: Minato-ku, until: ‘the: morning of ‘the. p-adth).... *
[686]~ professor's - “the desertion’ was. 5 conpletely the ‘decision. of ‘these four ||.
[687]persons. . It seems that the .four seamen decided not to return. to the ship, oe
[688]+.Wwhen the Intrepid - entered. Yokosuka, Port on October 173; and they | were pere «-
[690]ay mitted to go ashore for rest for one week. My impression.on meeting these’ ~~
[692]jj four seamen was that they wera, definitely not ‘deserting for the purpose of
[693]: ch selfeadvertisement or that they. were giving false reasons. I an, convinced a
[694]‘that they deserted really. out of doubt. about. the Nietnam, Ware a oe |
[696]po. oad a
[698]oo what were . the movements of. ‘the. foun, after, they desertear®
[700]; ” professor: On the night of ‘the 23rd, two ‘days before ‘the “Intrepid
[701]yas: due to.sail, the four went to Shinjuku, and told the people whom they |
[702]_ met at 4 bar they happened to visit, that "we ave fed up with war." The.
[703]:,,, Japanese who heard them sympathized "with them,: and. atone time, the four -
[704]: lived with seme hippies (according ‘to this paper’ s investigations, they -
[705]\° dnelude Mr, K., a student of Tokyo University's Liberal Arts Department , © —
[706], and Nanguard : artist Ay who gather at Fugetsudo in a Shinjuku. ) ‘Finally, wo
[709]14-00000
[711]they were taken: to Beheiren by a student ‘who spoke English (according + to.
[712]this paper's investigation, this was Mr. S., a Waseda Univer sity student). 7
[714]Ne that, _ they” were hidden by Beheiren. I cannot say where @ they. were.
[715]ONet a l s wep .:
[717]Professors: ty ‘purpose in 1 yiedting Japan was to: ‘dissuade the; four. ae
[718]I explained to. them what the results of their desertion would be. I even |:
[719]told them that they would never again be permitted to stand on American soil; .
[720]their fatherland.*:. At the time I met: “them ,- it. was. still. at.a-stage where. ;
[721]‘they. would only receive light punishment , they weported back immediately,
[722]saying that: they "had missed their ship. lowever their. determination was
[724]Firm) vend my persuasion had: ‘m9 effects
[726]+e The ‘four! “seamen's ‘desertion + was: ‘announced: in. ‘the form of a press. -. ce:
[727]interview given by Beheiren, :- . Were there. no. facts of their haying.b been
[728]forced t tov “desert, during © that, Poried? & rf :
[730]. stoo However, ‘they firmly denied :
[731]any fact of their having been £ forced, saying ‘that they had voluntarily 7
[732]-consulted Beheiren as to whether they should publicly. announce the >»
[733]intention to desert, and, aad 80, in Nhat form this should be made. ae
[735]imnere are ‘the four seamen. Row, and where ¢ are they planning to go?
[737]7 ‘Professor: 1 am certain that the ‘four: of “them were ‘still in Japan,
[738]up ‘yntil the lith, the day I left for home. However, they already knew .
[739]fully well that it was not possible for them to obtain asylum in Japan...
[740]They even said that "we will probably have to go to some third nation, |
[741]which is neutral," (The public security authorities judge that. the four
[742]seamen left Japan immediately after Mr. YOUNG's persuasion, and consider that
[743]they: probabiy were smuggled out: of Japan -after-the l0th,:and before the -
[744]evening .of ‘the 13th, when : ..-Beheiren. announced their ‘desertion. ata press
[745]‘conference, |. However, Mr, YOUNG says ‘chat the .four seamen, were in ‘Japan up.
[746]until the night of the ilth.. : Therefore, the, possibility .is strong that they
[748]“between. ‘the ‘night of :the. ith and the .
[750]: " peltcseor: “When “the ‘fLlms ‘were. ‘publicly hown there was bigt excitement,
[751]with rows and rows of television and. :press cameramen.’ TI thought I would be~
[752]exposed to persistent questioning by the FBI and the CIA, after I returned..
[753]shome, but. so, far, I have only. been, questioned once . by: the. wNavy.'s. Intelligence.
[754]“Seetion , about the circumstances, ;. «Et, seems that. -American , authorities con-
[755]cerned do not want to make: ‘too big, a fuss ‘over the matter. a
[757]we ‘Profissor: A certain. ‘television ‘station- ‘asked, “the ‘mother: of, one of
[758]{the four men. about her son's. life..;, This mother was completely . ‘perplexed;
[759]saying: "My son-is.a. most. average - American: youth. »- His :school records
[760]were quite, ordinary, . and he. liked sports.,:, just:: Like; “any. other student.’ oe
[761]. cannot . ‘mderetand why. he; acted iin such a: ways :