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1. The subject of the attached report is a man of interest: 1) astypical of the more successful of the *operators* among the purged higherarmy officers; 2) for his connections with SATCWI Saito whoa CI .2:7dubsthe •eminenc• grime* in the JOHAN Enterprises-Natio:al Peace L.,' Ana:Tend-ence Committee intelligence combine; and 3) for his contact with FEAT (seepars 7).

2. In reference to paragraph 7, MIXOSHI l e connection is probah4urXththe 6001 Special investigations Unit or with FBA? OSI. He was beaten up in1948 by some drunken 6001 officers who were subsequently court-martialed.

3. In April 1949, a 3 told that subject was *a man ofintegrity* inwhom full confidence would be placed. The decidedly unfriendlytone of the present report indicates a vadical shift in opinion possiblybased on closer acquaintance. C".._ apparently obtained a portion ofthe attached material in a personal interview, probably at the same time asthe report forwarded as ZJL,523.

19 February 1.951

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FOAM NO. .,F(S 1041

NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT

Declassified and Approved for ReleaseEXEMPTIONS Section 3(h) by the Central Intelligence Agency(2)(A) Pri • .(.;y El Date:(2)(E) Methods/Sources W-------(2)('TO ;.- ' Plelz:ions 1

Subject: urrosal Tasgruki, FormerMajor General

Report No: ZJL-

Date of Information: See Below

Place Acquired: Tokyo, Japan

Date Acquired:

27 Dec 1950

Evaluation: B-3

Date of Report:

14 Feb 1951

Source:

C- 19 Feb 1951

1, Former Major General MITOSHI Tasuyoki ( 5 lq ),once an Army Air Force Officer, is a purged officer of the Japanesemilitary:lb° according to Source hopes to see himself installed onceagain in the top echelon of a revived Japanese Army and who believesthat the inevitable rise of the Japanese Amy is Japan's only Chanceto regain her former status and power among ! -e nations. In post-surrender Japan, KIYOSHI has advanced his personal fortunes by capit-alizing on connections with high Occupation officials and local "bossenoin Kyoto and Tokyo.

2. mirosu was born in a village in Hiroshima Prefecture andreceived his early education in the primary and middle school attachedto the Hiroshi ma Normal School. After graduation from the Army StaffCollege, he served in the early 30 1 e as an Assistant Military Attachein Washington, D.C. Source knows little of MITOSHI l s military careerexcept that he was one of the pioneer pilots in the Japanese Air Force.

3. After the surrender MIKOSHI was sent to Kyoto as head of theArmy Liaison Office charged with the duty of demobilizing Japanesemilitary personnel in the area in cooperation with General IreugerlsSixth Army. He quickly established excellent relations with the Occu-pation officers and earned the reputation among the Japanese as a good“fixer" with the Occupation. According to a CIO source, he also made asmall fortune black-marketing the material cached by the former JapaneseArmy in the Kyoto area which he was,eherged with liquidating. A part ofthis money he invested in one of thi-Upanese hotels in Kyoto, the EINTAP.I0KAN, which *e-cass-of-thed serves as his head-quarters there.

4. Some of LIKOSHI l e contacts in Kyoto are:

A. Kyoto Fish Market, Ltd. (The real boss is ITAKUHA Menjiro,*younger brother of Mre. TSUJI, wife of the owner of the K1NTA Rroxim).urrom was rewarded with a cash payment and a position as permanentadviser to this firm for blocking, through his intercession with the

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Kyoto Military Government Team, the efforts of purgee FUKUIA Shunichito absorb the Kyoto Fish iarket into his Hokkaido Fisheries Co. (Operatedonly in Kyoto)

B. lamb° Cotton Mills, Inc. LIYOSHI quashed a case of cottonand silk black-marketeering and therebi earned a half a million yen's worthof the company's otock and an advisory position with a guaranteed annualbonus.

C. SASAKI Kyo.** Chairman of the Kyoto Branch of the japan SUMOAssociation and an admirer af TOJO. When TOJO was in Sumo SASAKI paid amonthly remittance to TOJO's family. Connected with a certain Japanese-Syrian jeweller named Anal (fnu) in a firm called the Towers, Inc. whichrecently went out of business.

D. 7ATSHJI Haruki, first post-war mayor of Kyoto and unsuccessfulcandidate for the mayoralty in the last election, and grug■ (first name notgiven), first director of the Kyoto Procurement Board. WATSUJI and MIURAwere indicated in the Kyoto District Court for illegal activity in the 1950Upper House elections. MIDSHI, despite his status as a purges, was vir-tually one of WATSUJI's staff officers in his election campaign.

MATSUMOTO Shigeaki, war-time profiteer inShanghai and elsewhere in China. When KIYOSHI was Army Liaison Office chief,he and MATSUMOTO are said to have made a nunber of profitable business deals.MATSUUCTO for a few years after the war published in Kyoto a magazine °riledthe JIHO-SEA, similar in content to the monthly SHIMS°.

F. IISHIWARA Koichiro, ex-tycoon in South-East Asian exploitation(rubber and tin in bidaya and Indonesia) who encouraged TOJO and his fol-lowers in their scheme for southern expansion. laTOSHI wrote a lengthypetition requesting ISHItARA ls exoneration from war-guilt and the purge.When ISHIWARA was finally released from Suromo, aroma maintained that hewas the major instrument and was given an ample cash award.

G. .ilAILSMI Shunji, a "financial magician" who has been labelledthe "marathon-borrower". MIYOSHI served HAIASHI as "foreign affairs advisor"for a few months after he got HAXASHI out of CID detention late in 1947.

5. At present =am' spends two-thirds of his time in Tokyo, theremainder in Kyoto. In Tokyo he entered into a partnership with a MadamsAplaILLand later made her his mistress. Madame KOMATSU is the proprieOseof the GAJO-EN restaurant-hotel which mom now runs as he does the KINTAR/OKAN in Kyoto. MITOSHI and Madame KOMATSU met when the latter was runningan army-protected geisha house in Singapore called the "Komatsu".

6. WIYUSHI has reportedly succeeded in biting the Dutch Shell Companyto invest in the SHMA Oil Co., Tsunohaan, Shinjuku, Tokyo.*** He alsoclaims to have established the Alafla Strait Pearl Cultivation Co., incooperation with Australian interests. According to tarom this firmis headed blASAWAle Henze, a former veteran diplomat. KIYOSHI is also

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closely linked with EAZONII(a_Ans,**** notorious China narcotic gangsterlinden sabitime SATOMI has been PUMA Shunichils(see pare above) boss since their China days.

7. For the past two years MIICSNI has reportedly boasted of his workfor Far Nest Air Forme' "CIO". H. maintaine he procured a score of ableformer Japanese airmen, for FRI who are now vorkimg as ground personnel.He also claims that Fl&F invites his opinions on air strategy.

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sle Ina previous undiseminatod report dated 22 Nny 1950, Sourcereported thet SASAKI and MAXI immediatelyattor the surrenderwent into a business partnership with a Colonel 10931110, thenwith the 6th Army in Kyoto. Low's° is said to have returned tothe U.S. with "quite a quantiir of Jewels and established theNassachueette Bra Co. in New reek. While waiting for the returnof LONGO°, whom Source believes was denied entry by SCAP, SASAKIand ANTAEI set sip the Tower's Inc.

es* See za448-.7 for a report on a transantion apparently identicalwith the one mentioned here. C._ :7 Economic Office reportsthat as far as is known negotiations between SHWA and the ShellCompany are underway but it is believed that no contract has yetbeen signed.

sem aka MOM No, SATOMI Nyman. See EJL-538 and 09. Given inthese two reports as chief of Liaison for the JOHAN Company* kWJIB cover company.

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