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, 1 MOIHARA, Geaeral Kenji Jap-21-1-1, WS JAPAN lA 1215 104: 5.uu04...a.4sacca-). OSS Report Japanese super-spy, agent-provocateur extraordinary and manufacturer of F.E.D. of 1-2 incidents who figures prominently in the inner workings of Japanese espic- June 1943 nage in China. Hp has been called the Japanese T. E. Lawrence and is one of the few Japanese who can pass in all respects as a Chinese in China. However, he has had so much publicity that his identity is now well known. He is clever, but, according to the Chinese, he has made many blunders. His 14th Division was severly defeated in Ronan when the Chinese cut the Yellow River dikes and drowned most of his raldiers. This defeat con- firmed the suspicion that he was a better trickster than he was a fighting general. In August 1942 he was taken out of China for a time and made Inspector General of Army Aviation.
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General Kenji Doihara was born in August 1883. He graduated from the Min- 31108 tary Staff College in 1912. He was Mayor of Mukden at the time of the Man- Based on an CZ) churia incident and later Chief of the Special Service Department (a sec- Article in the ret intelligence organization) of the Japanese Kwangtung Army Garrison in Detroit Newsitaila Mukden and Dairen. He was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1936 and made 21 Sept. 194inszcsos Commander of the 14th Division in 1937. After the defeat of this division in Honaa he was recalled to Japan and made Inspector General of Army Aviation. For more twenty years Doihara bouLht and sold Chinese politicians and war lords in an effort to dermine ChinOs power and establish Japan s Empire in Chins. Dothara was early imbued the ideas of Mitsuru Toyama, of Black Dragon Society fame, for a world-wide super-intell - wasumax NAZI, WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE OVER ACT 1113=ig: 1 orsak. menmalo 1 EXEMPTIONS Section 3(b) DecIäslfid And Approved for Release (2)(A) Privacy by the Geritfil Intelligence 4 0 Agency 112=3: Date: ! (2)(B) M ethods/Sources gr ! (2)(G) Foreign Relations fl anmetagia 4 • _ • V 4 • 0 •• • 4 0 - • 0. 4 - • • 0 • 0 4 d. 4 • • 4 0 3 4 a Z a • • • 4 • • 4 4 0 4 r a • • • S. b w In N. : 4 4 • w 4 e 3 • 4 • ... lb A f• T 1 1 • ., • 4 • ..! f . • V V 4 4 • 4 1 • b P 4 4 4 • a 7. 4 4 3 • a 4 4. ;.-. • • A A 4 ...A. • Z 4 V 4 4 4 II 0 • IV • 4 v • 4 4 V 4 e .. 0 . • 4 • 4 4 4 0 4 e 4 ; • • • 11 a e A A a 11, i A t V • . .> t ,. ..7 a S A • 8 • 4 . • 4 A P 4 . S e i. a. • • 4 4 4 • i A ,C, 4 4 4 • • 0 • .,S. ,. • • 4 • A • • • • a . • 4 • • a • 4 4 4 • • .:. it i 4 4 A a a 4 • 4. 4 4 . • • • • • . . A. 3 • a 4 4 a .. . • . . . • a. i , i . .i, - . .... . . . . • ar_ e a • r 4 4 • •
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Dothan: (Contint:ed) gence, directeC towardt furtherini, Japan s eggre:-E.ive, e:Thnzionist policy. Doihnra ih soid to hhve once trudLed au i over Korea disguised a:, a peddler furlherinf, the doctrine of Toyarmi.. polio:re concentrated on Chinete affair: and became one of the few Jcpanee officers who so mastered the Chinese language that, when wearing Chiaar.e clothes, the Chinetx them- ceives could not tell that he ?fat a Japvtit,..se. He also learned Chine:.e tricks of eticuette and manner and wa:; abie to sing Chinehe scnge end discuss Chine: . e literature and art. This added to his fame, but 6h time weal on, he became !JO widely known that he was unable to preserve his incognito.
Doihera in the early thirties was middle aged. An emiatle-lookini, person, with in hthi.tic built, he had none of the mannerisms of the typical Japanese spy of fiction. He Is :Aid to have a good-nhtured, pleeshnt manner, rnther like h YMCA ecretary. He mace r v.pecitty of information about people hnd Whh said to have he b dcsLier on every Lm.r.lcan In Shang- hai, down to the last hair on hit. chest. rolhara as WyGr of kukden ca the time of the Mukden Inciuent anu crotttA. with being one of the piermen., of the incaieut• His ai_peurance in any .ecailty invarialL5 bode a fresh Japene:le plot. Poinara wa hign 4:a111...,er to Chant, Lot: peoted of having engineered toe plot that x..J.ed him. He is said tu have srovmed Eenry Pu Yi for the ;ob of Puppet Emperor of irlanc:hhkun and to nave leen ih ..trumenta.J.. In plecinL on the thrme. It i:i belirveo tuet Voinars fhiiec to rea.i=e his Exea.te:. /. r.mbition of —
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_ (Continued) 3 Doihera s. I the scheme to separate the Five Northern Provinces from China and make them "autonomous; i.e., under Japanese control. His plans were thwarted by the wily Chinese and in 1935-36 Tokyo was not yet ready to go to war: So Dolhara was repudiated by his government and his schemes for an Autonomy Movement collapsed. As a face-saver, he was able to set up a Puppet Regime in East Hopei which proved of great startegic value to Japan and -aas usefui. as a vast narcotic and smuggling base from which operations were carried on southward under the direction of Doihara l s own Special Service Section of the Japanese Army. In the long years of his undercover political maneuverings, Doihera kept the press and public in the dark as to his activities, but suddenly in 1936 he broke forth with press inter- views that fairly dripped of Japan s honeyed gospel of peace, happiness and prosperity • 43. 53.1, for China. At the same time he denied emphatically that Japan was anti-foreign or that he
had any ideas whatsoever of an Asia-for-the Asiatics. After the military mutiny in Tokyo `a. !Vt:Ct Cal In February 1936, Doihara was recalled to Tokyo and made Commander of the First Division. 4 nr:":1AF.fi After the war started, he was back in China commanding troop divisions. It was his 14th Division which was so severely defeated in Honan when the Chinese cut the Yellow River dikes and drowned most of his soldiers in the famous battle of Taierchwang in May 1938. He returned to Japan thereafter and later was made Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. In 1943 it was reported that he was Commander of the Eastern Military Defense Zone and concurrently a member of the Supreme War Counchl.
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In support of intensive speculation on the possibility of a Japanese drive Dossier into South China, special reference is made to the report that the notorious No source and formidable Lt. Gen. Kenji Doihara has recently arrived in Macao. He has given long been Japan s outstanding fifth-column expert and his presence always forbodes trouble wherever he appears. His headquarters are now at Fatahan and his immedi- ate purpose is the organization of secret operations against American installations and personnel in South China.
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:mmom =ow 5 10IHARA (Continued) MX Z9 A - 1 C=P This report states that Diyuhara (sic) (presumably a misspelling of Doi- 26 June 1944 hare), an extremely capable man whose exploits in North China earned him Cusiv, the title of "Butcher; has been sent by the Japane to a small village south of Canton to organize sabotage and assassination groups. (Note: This may be Fatshan, a suburb of amiL.Ji Canton. See note on Card 4 and also see card INTELLIGENCE CENTER IN FATSHAN (China - 1) There are at least four schools with approximately one hundred students each, located in NOWPARA the Hong Kong - Canton area. Student agents are graduated about every three months and sent into Free China to damage and destroy American installations end to assassinate Ameri- can personnel. Most Americans in the armed forces in China dislike China and apparent Chinese assassination of some of their number might cause serious trouble. m$NOOMAI hlc woit!!!:: VAGM6-11 This cable states that Chinese G-2 reports the presence of Koihara (sic) CHAFX (very probably an error for Doihara) in Hankow and that "if true thisitua- Kunming 114911a tion warrants attention" IN 15697 25 July 1944
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. . , 7 DOIHAWA, Kenji (Continued). s I Files 4 April 1944 General Doihara contributed an article on the "Roots of Japan s National Policy Towards china" to the Chuo Koron in November 1938. 1 translation of this article appeared in paresis. for March 1939.
The following is from the New York Times of March 26, 1944:
"In view of the seriousness of the present war situation, the commanders-in-chief of the ;toms Eastern and Western Defence Zones, which are important responsibilities in the defence of the Japanese mainland, have bean changed. Out of the top job in the Eastern Defence Mkmai Zone to an un-named certain important post went General Kenji Doihara, 61, specialist 11=g0 in intelligence and propaganda, and once, briefly, Commander-in-6111er of the Japanese Air Force. tzsosi2).
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