fodt00730279 es. . . ence names ener a) i § P A T ra “ih , “3 . _ CLASSIFICATION “ ic PEO TEAS eG AL Ths wae iri “me —_— ; an = waests Ste wid tee, x RO INOERIeC Pf GuneED ORLY QUALIFIED Of5R CAN JUDGE INDICES cal Chief of Aietion MICROFILM 7 <YBAT udpASHA REDTOP — Beheiren and the Four U.S. Navy Deserters ~ Tacnio ERENCES ~ | 7263 (6-3 As noted in reference, forwarded herewith is a copy of the sub- ro a Jeet memorandum. Please ‘note that the information in the memorandum | Paragraph B. 4. b) is particularly sensitive and should only be given proper ly restricted dissemination. oo Mark J. LIDGE ae . ATTACHMENT -. '. Memo dtd 27 Nov, 67 . Distribution a ie ® - C/SB a w/1. cy attach . . ee ; E -. 1 = C/FE w/1 cy attach - ee a “RETURN | A hea ge re TO CIA " oe ae ae “Bo Not Reproduce - _ CASSTACATION REVIEW GROSS REFERENCE TO —_ DEC 6 1987 HOS FILE HUMBER WoC SUNKNOWN
14-00000  Rospectabre Ynteitectuat Front:  Follewin fu = mented Communist principles for mass movenent wing funda ‘than the JCP itself follows these tenets), the ex-JCP .-. organizers of BEREIREN kept themselves in the background and lined up 2 number of prominent Japanese progressive = -- | intellectuals and leftist cultured persons to front for _ BEEEIREN. The choice of ODA Makoto, ox-Fulbrighter and . ~ |. popular young novelist, to b@ the chief front man - Chair= man =- Was an extremely lucky stroke for BEHEIREN. ODA has - ‘taken to this grand-standing, front work liko a duck to . a water. It has given him 2 chance to give unbridled vent ‘to Boal bis own latent anti-American feolings, puffed him up to the ~~ extent that he has been dubbed “the emperor" by other BEHEIREN 0: ‘activista, and given him at long last an ideological mission = =~. to pursue. YOSHIKAWA has performed magnificently in feeding ...° ODA's ego needs and in infusing and indoctrinating ODA se... 5... that his words and actions take on sufficiently virulent’: anti-American overtones, ODA hus served another vital 2005680000 -function for BEHEIREN by recruiting a sizeable number of: °°) | 'fellow intellectuals to join the ranks of DEEEIREN activists. =” Attachment 1 is a listing of a number of those Japanese who .. - this =) identified as “active BEBBIREN SUPPOFEGrS or os ce \th Zers. : “ed oA ~ organizational Develorment: “In its 2 Ye. year history, BEERTEEN has not appreciably changed its organizational format, ‘@lthough it has moved its office three tines and modified its... — mame even oftener. BEHEIREN is not a “mass organization", bew cause it has had no sizeable popular backing to the preseat . time. Its herd core, secretariat organization is run: by . sae “YOSHIKAWA and his lieutenants. Its public image, intellectua 2. _front is led by ODA, and given body by a-score of like-minded .: ‘intellectual friends of ODA and YOSHEIKAGA, who form the loose body of BEHEIREN's activist leadership... Under this BEDEIREN . leadership superstructure lies a paltry base of only several ‘hundred BEHELREN “ranke-and-filie“i:supporters, mostly young =: -scns:> -Japanese students. Organizationally, BEHETREN has no fermal =: : ‘gembership system, so its base of supporters is fluid and not. :.... precisely measurable... However, the base support for BEHEIREN —°. -has definitely been on the upswing during 1967, and made such = -* -moteable strides during the past summer that JCP Headquarters. ss. officials finally felt constrained to note with concern: that =|. BEBEIREN was beginning to drain off a growing number of-pro- =o  .- ‘gressive youth who otherwise would have been absorbed into ~ 9... the JCP's own youth movement. BEEEIREN leaders have tried to .°. °°. help this growth along by setting up a youth section, calling - ‘“) £t fPYoung BEHBRIREN.“ BEHBIREN's imaginative actions and . —— “ publicity-conscious programs have been responsible for its” Jos. recent  Rrowth, and Shis period of growth, seems to be now on
. the verge: ‘of really pleking v up speed and ‘momentum. * ing a floodgate of support for BEHEIREN from a11 over Japan. © “When this case fades from the limelight, it is still most . . dikely that a fair percentage of current wave of popular — me - support for BEHELEEN will solid ermanent mass backing, | : moe &. “Activities and hccouplishnente!” BEERIREN has engaged” .din a nuniber of propaganda actions, and participated in inter- -of its role in the case of the four deserting sailors, a rosult ne “fas reaped bountiful publicity, has succeeded in touching a - delicate Japanese. public nerve of sympathy. and pacifism, open- =. .” - national anti-Vietnam War activities. It has tried to com 00-3 | ’ operate with certain front activities in Japan controlied by ‘the JCP, most notably the Japan Committee to Investigate War - . Crimes in Vietnam activitiés, which culminated in the Tokyo . Court of last Aligust, but has been soundly and rudely rebuffed -by the JCP... In spite of this, EEHEIREN bas churned along at - its own pace, with a continuing series of anti-Vietnanm war: - ‘actions, most of them related in some way to the Aucrican “pacifist movement. In this regard, BEHEIREN has succeeded in. ‘gornering a virtual monopoly on Japanese contacts with the U.S. °:.” - pacifist movements, and has effectually capitalized on this to -. . promote its own action program. The case of the four deserting «.. sailors, while an apparent lucky windfall Zor BEHEIREN, only a points up the fact that BEREIREN, through past organizational | work and pronctional activities, was “johnny~on-the-spot", =~ ‘veady and capable (unique in Japan in this regard) to take | . the ball and run with it. BEHEIREN ran all the way in this case and scored its most notable success since it was organized. - (Attachment 2 is a listing of BEHBIREN's more notable sctivitiog - since its founding. Attachment 3 is a partial listing of 7 American and other foreign persens kno >» have been ine _, contact with or cooperated with BEREIRE rial ie The ‘Case of the Four Sailor Dozerters and BEREIREN. fe 1: How It Started: © “The consensus of all ‘available overt. “medin material, with no recorded dissent, indicates that the ~ four sailors voluntarily left their ship, went AWOL, and ended _ up wallowing around Tokyo's hippie-land. - Precisely what personal ° not yet known. But, up to this point, the four could fairly be a categorized as misguided youngsters, gone astray in a foreign -. land, and due to get slapped back in line with traditional . : Navy justice when they finally decided to stop the fun and go. - back to the FRAP. So far, this made their canes far: from nn grievances prompted the four to embark on this mis-adventure is os
14-00000 ey ic; ass ~ How it  Becene an Incident “put instead of returning to bets stip of their ovn volition or being apprehended by. the Sbore Patrols the four made contact with BEHEIBEN leaders. Again, press reports indicate that this was just a ce DEaminee’ ‘that there.was no pre-planning by the four to contact BENEIRE} tr. Tnore are no available overt nor ‘covert reports that indicate otherwise.': But, once the BEHEIREN people made contact, they recognized. the potential immediately and: moved fast for ‘the Kill... (Attachment 4 is a Youiuri Newspaper clipping, 22 Nov-— enber 1967, that is both a representative and comprehensive ~ account of thie phase of the case. Even if this articic . should contain some minor inaccuracies, the basic ling seens zactual subse has not been challenged elsewhere. > ake) iS he  BENEIREN ‘Takes over! When the ‘four made contact with “PEREIREN, it suddenly became an entirely different ballgaxce. . BEHEIREN had everything needed to capitalize on this: veteran - getivist leaders who are experienced enough to recognize the s windfall that had come their way; an apparatus that could . ay Y ae provide hiding places for the four; long standing. disison contacts with Soviet Enbassy officials for use in pientin " exit from Japan; solid conta r@liabie American _ *pacifists with whom the bona fides of the four sailors could | be checked; money and organization to capitalize on the . . propaganda potential (such as preparing a movie film for the initial BEHEIREN press conference announcing the desertion, prepared more likely than not by BEHEIREN stalwart Eeinosuke, an independent film producer) and English speaking | activists capable of sympathizing, encouraging, soothing, or _ agitating the four young sailors, 8o ) that there would be no -- - turning backs opi USE ee wes es ae * ‘The BEHEIREN Appar aratus Att Work ; While any of the. anail pieces of this puzzic, which would put the whole case an proper detailed chronological order and elininste speculation — w On minor points, are still missing, enough is known now,” ~ through overt and covert sources, that the picture of BEYEIREN 's adept handling of this case shines through clearly. The follow- dng elements, all part of the arreedraaas make “BP the as bulk of the ‘picture: Doge - a "ad Hide-out: hea BERRIREN got hold of the four | on ae about’ 26 October, they had to be hiden out for the approximate. . tvo: week period until their exit from Japan could be arranged... This presented BEHEIREN no great logistical problem. A number eof the BESEIREN activist leaders have homes well suited to i harboring tugitives.: For example, BEHEIREN activist leader | has 2 villa hidden avay in Chipasaki, which was used on the night of 12 September for a meeting of about |. 20 top HEEEIEEN jeaders, and which would be Aighly suitable _
14-00000 > for hiding the four deserters. Other private.dwel bs | - . donging to BEXEIREN leaders and loyal res Te 1008 sed / Sbroughout both the Kanto and Kansai areas. : ~ yosmeawa has maintained periodic contact with Soviet Embassy . Officials for years. BEGSIREN Chairman ODA hss met Soviet . Peace Committee officials in Hoscow. The exact nears of how | this Jiaison was accomplished in this case is precisely known — ' tb) BEUEIRUN/Soviet. Liaison: PEDBEIREN Secretary sa ap made on GU uctoucr : Tirst by rian Victoria to Chic? Press Attache Nikolay V. os “ Vasilyevfeh, and second by YOSHIKAWA to First S@¢retary ©. -: | _Sérgéy D. Anisimov, urgently requesting a private mecting ae -~“Yater that day to discuss “an extremely important, extrencly ". Gedteate matter", without doubt the case. of the four sailors. oe ms ed. BEBEIREN/U. S. Pacifist Linison: BENEIRER contacted : : Dartmouth’ University professor Ernest. P. Young, who Zlew to ©. . Japan om & November, apparently helped BEBEIREN leaders check — | out the bona fides of the deserters, and returned te the U.S. -- on 11 November. (Attachment § isthe transintion of a Sankes — Shimbun article, dated 21 November, reporting an interview with Young, giving his version of his role in this case. “>: 5. Escape to to Hoscow: | ‘The four deserters: turned up in: _mogcow on 20 November. The press has speculeted widely and ' “gnanimously that the four left Japan on the Soviet passenger | .. ship Baikal on lI November. Again, there is no dissenting : | opinion, overt nor covert. The only mystery concerning thie . final phase of the Japanese portion of this case concerns the [> mechanics of how the four boarded the Baikal and who assisted. -in this maneauver. But with the sailing of the Baikal from «. Yokohawa, BEHSIREN conpleted its most bighly successful and ==)” beautifully executed activity in its 2 1/2 year history. Not oe .only did BEHZIREN smear the American Government's image in 2°: ‘Japan, not only did BEBEIREN gain a vast amount of priceless oe publicity that will swell the ranks of its supporters and be “: dnvalusble in future activities, but BEHEIREN doubtlessly - : @yen made a profit, financially, on this low budget cperetion - Se donations are still pouring into BEEZIREN Headquarters 4 froa- an . “help and protect U. 5 Geserters". ; ee
14-00000 yg YOSHIKAWA Yue | CODHEIREN Secretary General) - ~ forser scp . oma Makoto ‘oumeines ¢ Chatrean) ~ - popular novelist.  RAIKO Hen _ Akatagana prize winning novelist. a 7 | _ KUBO Keinesuke | = ‘film producer and director.” “Be _sisuagux ‘Shunsuke ~ Doshishs University professor. ut veh 6. - TSURUNY Kazuko ~ siater of Shunsuke ) Chose father is the late o 2 philosopher, Yusuke). - oe ” EURUYAMA, Yozo ~ bigh school ‘teacher. a “a. HUTO tons 1G * exnSCD (tried to ‘travel ‘to U.S. ‘to: “ pepresent: oa S BEEEIREN at October 21 demonstrations this. year, but was re eS denied 3 a visa to ) enter the u. 5.) oe 10. _ FURUDA, Foshiyas ~ playuriter : ie / TOMENAGA Ichiro o- . cartoonist. 12. i _ FUKASAEY Mitsusada = ‘professor: : 3. * ARAZU Kiyoshi - “» - graphic ‘designer | " ‘TARADO Kaname o - Christian leader 48: ¢ YOSHIDA Ragu - ~ - 231m director. : ‘UNTHARA Shun ~ - writer. | ; | HASHIMOTO Winco - ex Buddhist priest. “HORTA ¥ oshie om novelist. s ca Goro Hiroyuk - - scientist. oon 20. KUWABARA Takeo « - - professor « at : Kyoto University. | 7 a, ac 7
14-00000 5 4 TERAL Minako 0 : aad - oe ARAL ‘Buathiko oa , . oe ASU Masango - ae MATSUMOTO Tebiju se. Rasa Setnie 0. “MURIHARA Yukio 0 TOE | eted” , “aNpo Simbei, “CHIBA Hido, GANA ‘Take, FUSE Nittatee, i | “ ganryg Ichiro, HOSHINO Yasuseburo, ICEIY Saburo, IXEYAUA Juco, - ISHIDA Takoshs, ANAL Yoshiko, EASAT. Seiichi, ee, Heth Sey KARO Shuich1, KAZAMA Michitare, MATSUURA Sozo, 1 KIDOKORO Hasac, EITAEOST Satosht, KOBAYASHI Bhoichixo, Sousey sate, | _KOBSYASEI Toni, KUNO Osanu (Shu), KURODA Hidetoshi, ARUVAMA “Masao, MIDORIKAVA Yoru, MIZUSAWA Yana, KORITAKT Ichiro, oe ‘MUCHAKU Seikyo, MURANATSU Hizo, NISHIO SHIO Noboru, NORA eine “ocosmi Teruo, CTSUROTSU Yoshiko, -SERIZAWA Tae, SIA Suispsl,. : SHINMIA Takeshi, SHISHIDO Hiroshi, SUGIURA Hitsuo, SUGIYANA - ‘. Tateunara, SUZUKI Hasabira, TAKEUCHI Yoshitono, WADA Nagahica, ; YAMADA Monenitsu, YAHADA Toshio, YAMAGUCBY Kosaku, YAMANISHT ‘BiichS, ASUDA Takeshi, YOSHINO Gonzeburo, YOSHIVARA Kotehiro,, OKAMOTO Taro, MATSUMOTO Seicho, BL Rokusuke, zu Take, a  AVAYA Noriko, KATO Yosh ROTAWA Saburo, TAKAHASHI | — Taketono, ODAGIRI Hideo, OXUMA iinoru, SANO Kenji, SUSUEL oes Wichiniko, KUBATA Hanya, memes oe Seiei, MARUYANA iuanio, eG bent ane see my nt wee re Oe ee pe 2 on I eo ween eh cedeeceeares ep cette ee
14-00000 eres 11uR0 tend, KONAKA Yotaro, SAKAMOTO “Although ‘not ‘recorded here, a many. of the. above ‘persons. yf BLS Ox x=JCP BOabErs.,
14- 00000 = a “Regular once-per-—aonth demonstrations at a public park ‘an’ Tokyo, consisting ¢ of. anti-American Bpaeckes | aad tellowed by streot marches. fo hte Says of vats bags eR Ae Oy CAEL, “> By Am all ‘night ony “teachein"* with BEREINEN activist leaders, ¥ . along with special guest, U. S. pacifist Carl Oglesby (Chairman ¢ of. the Students, for a Denocratic Society.) a rr acs . “3. A gull page advertisement im the New York Tines ae Novenber_ | : 1965). Lolloved by another full pare ad in the Washington Post: o .@ April 1987) » appealing to Americans: to stop the war 4D Vietnan. re Mee kh Meet in Conference or 0 Rations for Peace an Vietnaz, wo held in Tokyo in August 1966, and attended by BEHEIREN activists and 7 seven U.S. pacifist leaders (including Dave Dellinger), and observers from ‘France, Englend, Canada, the USSR, Pakistan, and Mongolia, — 5. A mass meeting in Tokyo ‘tn October 1966, guest speakers of “which were Prench pacifists, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simane de. Beauvoir, 6. “Nationwide tours ‘of Sapan for dectures and peace ‘rallies for : such anti-Vietnan war pacifists as Professor Howard Sinn and the inte ; fuste of the United States, Claude Bourdet of France, and Thich Nhat Hanh of South Vietnam. = (ee ee oo vo - A mass meeting in Toxyo ‘in January. 1967, sponsored by BERG IREN and feataring U.S. fol singer and ‘pacifist Soan Baez. . plarienien inane See a A continuing program of direct distribution ef panphiets to U.S, troops stationed in Japan, and those coming to Japan, on “warships, and for rest or hospi talization fron Vietnan. . : oped Hee 9.” ‘Participation. by ‘two BENEIREN activist. ‘Leaders (kyoto. University professor KUWABARA Takeo and International House staffer TSURUMI Yoshikyuki, taking advantage of a trip to the U.S..to attend” § non-political Japau-America Congress on Cultaral Problems} in . roe anti-Vietnanm war Bpeech railie Lois Ptmouth © University in early Say. 1967,. followed by an unsuccessful attempt . so iavite Cassius Clay to visit Japan on “bobalt of ‘SEGETEEN « ae "10.: : Continuing efforts : to o bring to Japan for : a nat attomido
14-00000 Pl on. pohalt of PEESTREN, ‘Soviet: poet! . Yevgeni Yevtu Fert ‘that has not, yet reached fruition but" S stis yr. “participation in the Stockholm July 19867 “World Conference : a yietnant,” by sending two SR AREN activist leaders as dolegates. 7 7 125° Cooperation with the U.S. Quakers,” pacifists, and Earle oe goynolds in sending the yacht “Phoenix” with medical aid, first to. - ‘guiphong, then on a second trip in the Fall of 1967, secking but Wiling to find landfaii. to deliver medical aid to » ed thor North or © wouth Vietnam. ee OH en, . . 13.) " Attenpt ed, put failed due to ‘dnability + to , obtain U. ‘Ss. visa, to send a BEHEIREN activist leader (HUTO Ichiyo) to the U.S. to a participate in the 21 October 1967 enti-| ietnem War denonstrations. | ° 14: ‘Currently carrying out: a ‘fund rais ing canpaiga to send an : aid ship to North Vietnam. In this, and other activities, DEREIREN - -- leaders axe. maintaining ever closer liaison contact with their. — < gounterparts abroad, such as the French “Conite’ Vietnan Rational. : in an effort to generate public siipport for this aid ship f raising ceupaign, BEDEIREN succeeded in issuing a public appeal, under the endorsing signatures of Tokyo Governor sual ineeliectusis ang Yokohama Mayor ASUKATA Tehio, | aS + wolh ag the usuad atellectuals | * supporting REHE Ts . Cae <a ‘In October 1967, BERRIREN solicited appsoval to ‘hold anti— . Vietnan War demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tckyo, expecting ta be denied and then intending te make this denial 2 court | test case. Instead, BEEEIREN was given this’ permission, nnd conducted two orderly and Soliopubliciaes demonstrations in ‘front of the american Bubassy, garnering a larger public turn out of participants than in. any Previous BEEDIREN@sponsored denonstrations 0/2 es 16. | “Assisted. ‘end abetted the defection to. the USSR of four - cee American sailors from the U.S. Navy carrier Intrepid. Following this | success, BDEMEIREN's most effective activity to date, BSHEIREN lea ders | are Organizing 2 permanent “underground railwny" of " Sapaneso intell~ ' ectuals cho will volunteer their hones as possible “way stops" for ©’ hiding future U.S. ‘military ¢ deserters that BEES IREN now 7 hopes ' to. Induces. : ‘ other ‘details, sea Tokyo inter 1igence reporting: 211547, 31 Kay 1966 . aoe by 12046, 14 Gctober 1866. i126S0, 10 Mey 1967. 22(FIVi2851, 5 July 1967." TPIT-13G81, & September 1967 L3i54, 27 September 1967 —. 2z|BST+13203, 22 November 1967 a Algo, + (sfo700, il daly 1967: ” SEGRET.
14-00000 Partial ‘Listing of of Anertenn. and Other Boxes ‘Be Persons Known to Have Seen in Contact, ; wath or mo 7 Cooverated with BERUIREN : ) . > Staughton Lynd (ex-Yale professor) | «Korman Bailer (novelist) Dave Dellinger (Editor of Liberation) ‘Howard Zinn @oston uw. professor) “Donald Keyes (National Committee ‘for a , Bane : _ Huclear Policy) * Dovid McReynolds ‘@hairnaa, | War Resisters! A. oe Busto now deceased) 9, | William Davidson 0. Bradford Lyttle | Lee ‘Charlotte Thurber (utes) Quentin Bassett (Students for a Democratic 7 . Society) | Murray Levin | Goston ca professor), sservists to End cart optesty (Ciateman, : Students for a Denoeratic
... Iva Morris (Paris expatriate) - Dito Haiaaa (phonetic, ew York city peace activis st), . Barbara and Earle Reynolds: (divorced but separately a on |  eetive Longe tine xesicents ": in Japan). : “ winltan BY ‘Christensen “an Anericen pacifist drifter, mo! -. Who gave BEEEINEN its first: ee eeperience in the ssummer of 32866 in exploiting for pro- ‘paganda in Japan, and then in  aoranging the onward journcy -. oF an Amorican who wanted to ~ a defect to the USSR) - ‘Brian Vietaria (hoad-shaved 1 pacifist ‘and converted" | ie - Buddhist priest, Enown to be in | reguiar contact with the Soviet aoe . Embassy an Tokyo) | “ye, witlosby ¢gau, phonetic, "chief of the 2 Quaker 7 re Beace Action movement in the wv. BI) . An unidentified ‘Anerican of Japanese descent, from . | Hawai, who is- currently a student at Waseda Univeresty:: ‘Kosaku Yanaguchi (reportedly born ‘in U.s., present AES Un. Citizenship status unclear) (formerly ; EC EN ee es & professor at Homoyama University ‘fn Osake, but has been teachin, at the- ‘ Undversity of Cajizornia . an Berkeley for sone tims) 7
14-00000 "Wwe, Erdeneba t Ojon, Mongolia 8. Konstantin Shugnov, USSR - Eraneds i Marcel Kahn, | France (Comite? YVietnan | nena nea ee . National): : Jean-Paul Sartre ‘and Simone ‘de Beawvotr, France nnn ares Tate What: tanh, | South Vietnam - his ds not, by. any means, | a. . complete liating ; nor. does it necessarily list BEHEIREN's most important -": ~ activist contacts abroad. But this list is re--. -presentative in showing the breadth of BEHEIREN. _ iieison abroad, particularly with the American, “new iefit"
14-0009Q * WUC LOG OGG! leet aa ~. 4 the four deserters ‘from. the US aircrafs cartier Intrepid who made @ dramatic tele. : >; Vision Gppearance Monday in Moscow are believed -f@ have fef;. Japan irregularly . by the. Soviet liner. Reikal Which left Yokohama on November 17 for the. Far. East 7 Soviet’ port of Nakhodka, ae ea cay ag ae wt to” Not Werria: the. Metropolitany test. against. the Vietnam wary} When he first met the deser . ment ‘sald .Tues-| at. 4 press*conference'-held No: | ters, lees nue re, Practical : wie four’ “Americans | vember ‘18: In. Tokyo..." 4] penniless "but appeared « quit could have bodrded the ship by! - Yoshikawa “Said “that :the de pencerned, jNaitp Said... Govornal Baneway for Spviet |serters ava «Wanted. to” live] He said: the Geserters “ap Government ' officials. ‘hit. | peacefuny’ in Japan ‘and. asked} paren ¥ .€njoyed hippie. life, Japanese’ watchmen werd ton the" Behelren ‘to. find them:: obs, nae Gri pieap Japanese, food guard at another Sangway; for/in. which they. could | utlige noodles) ae nat don ordinary . passengers when 1222 | their English’ profictency..« «7 | He’ 3. the “mee “Ameriez ._Jisted.”” passengers, - including}. The Beheiren’ told ‘them: that ‘wanted « Hive ad 3 merleans : a “Clght. Americans, boarded the / they could: not: live: in’ Japan| W2 ° ible in ‘te .apan,, and a . HIKAW A ‘Mner ‘before it: departed Yoko. ‘without ‘ being “found: by : the;™ Naite nd hl hed ; x Ay . hama’at'11.50 am, November 11. | Japariese- police. ér. US. military! , Naito a She wud: Yamao [; Fetary-genera} Of the “Japan : ; ‘ i “ " ; : " “later, Yo.) Geclded to ask the hel of the Of 50H . The”; watchmen *,told Police / authorities sooner. or ‘later Yo. aon. Voces Le. y-Peaee-For-Vietnam:: \Commit- ‘that‘they did not ies to] Beheiren and thevered | the j.tee (Beheiren), tells! ay Peer omen Hee HOt ‘on’ the | pas: |’ “conference Tuesday \that the «Senger : list.. “bo: . a Z: 20, "a N four. Geserters:of the Ws war." Te Was dean ty, EANEWaY. of Tokyo, * told - The : Yomiurt all the four Americans - were. i ship: Antrepld hoped "£6 stay.‘ clals of the Soviet Embassy and plembun ' Beh va he cand his hog no inten: (in. Japan: but’ the:: Boheiren | meade mission in’ Tokyo and | cet: "and mennae’, ‘of "the ideology," OY eo Veould Rot ‘help them ‘to‘tlo 20 Baler oy sitors. boarded ‘the Behelren, acted as go-betweens!’ He caid the four’ must “have. , Semmens Hort nad -. |ganeway. ee | for . the. “Geserters. and. : the} decided to go te some--neutral it was ulte possible” that the|:, Nalto. said" he met: two offafter ‘they learned _ th; ree Soviet atthorit in’ Tokyo ar. | the. «four desertersexAirman| could - not. Jive in- Japan.'?-* “f |ranged ‘the a te n xe © ar I Dek. 19, and Airman|~...A spokesman. forthe Justica i | Fangec ve deserters ex “Nike as Lindner, 19—~at -a -hip- Ministry Bald” “Tuesday that} as Beheiren Pledge! ple- 2 aneout fn . Shinjuku wrong’ ws eta Ae ocgally: ‘ . {around October | ‘ E I general of Gnawa Peaceiron | He ssid” coitig Americans|leaving Japan because the adi}: Vietnam Committea:: (Beheiren), Wore leather jackets and other! Ministrative agreement ‘in the! tt 5 : - , it’ had|iMB around: the shinjuky- rea, Or leave Japan, wv suuericans left “becsiuse vit had "Bailey and Lindnes and the’, He said he’ understood. that! other two-Airman ohn - M,-the four Americans were ‘techs! Barilla, -20,-:and ‘Atrinan Ape nically still Gnisted Us mili-| .. . @ a, Aeon “tary personnel... Df kN cans left Japan by the’ Baikal Zo-went eS jan < pairs: Purthermons "if. their’ exit i ee Naito. said.. -,: tg Wt took place. on’ November ‘Li, it ” Nalto" said“he let. Bailey and ‘Was before. ie" Us authorities Lindner ‘stay ‘Overnight -at! his.made. an official request to the house: .in nGamivacho,., Neri. Japanese Price to search’ for from Ctober,.24: to 28 fe also said there. were .no , Japanese Jaws allowing charges ito be | preferred against the ‘iBeheiren officiais and-other Jae ipanese people who: “protected” ithe - Americans “in ‘Japan and jhelped their - departure to the Soviet Unlons oe eo 1. It. was’ the. Behelren’ which ' Announced - for’ the. frat _ tine ithe’ desertion of the four. crew imemb of the Intrep| 2, pro- “Broweh ad he ot rig eee
14-00000 Went to Tokyo and Tridd to Dissuade Them; | ee anne 2 Baba Esca ed from Japan on. the i2th or the 13th wo. - a “a or 3 * (New York, "November 20, ‘Correspondent Tadashi ONODERA):* Professor” + Erne: a of Dartmouth College in the U. Sey “consented to ‘an ‘interview - with. this. ‘reporter on the question of the four American seamen who deserted | ; from the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid. At the interview held on the 19th,- Professor YOUNG clarified that the.:Peace for Vietnam Association ' (Beheiren, ‘with Makoto ODA acting as its. vepresentative) | contacted an anti-war organiza=- “tion in the U.S., and at this, Professor YOUNG hurriedly visited Tokyo, and -° meeting ‘the four seamen in a room in an “apartment jhouse in Tokyo on the Sth_ «and 10th; tried to persuade them to return. In. regard to’ “the pres ent‘where- [abouts - ‘of: these .four seamen, he. made ‘the ‘noteworthy, statement “that “those ‘four wera still in Japan, up until, the. night. of the Lith, when: I left Japan et ue ethey & are (Probabiy.? no: Aonger in Japan; now," ere 2 iy “eougsea ri a professor: | “Beheiren ‘contacted ‘David “DERRINGER, ‘a  hacteist activist : cin the U.S., asking him to "send someone to Japan to hear the stories of tthe four seamen. and announce them in the U.S." I have been in Japan twice, and I also once served as special. assistant to Ambassador REISCHAUER. °:"~ During that time, I became friends with Beheiren representative ODA’ and* ‘other intellectuals in Japan. It was for these reasons that Iwas given “ne this :assignment..’:.I personally have | never. Partie tparee, actively in the, | oyanti-Vietnam war movement. so far... carn - : LTS ee: ‘ines ey ore oe Skee? Professor. z arrived. in . Haneda ¢ on , November. 8, “and met the four seamen * ven the 9th and the. 10th... The place of interview was. in an apartment house’. ‘pein Tokyo, but I cannot say, at. this time where that apartment, house was and - who owned it... However, on both days, I talked - fully with, these. four seamen, efor more than. three hours. on each occasion (according. to an investigation «/ 4 made by the public security authorities, Professor YOUNG. arrived in, Japan | --toward the evening of the 8th, and stayed at Hotel Tanakanwa_ ‘in Shiba, : " Minato-ku, til: ‘the: morning oF ‘the. > ath)... : bode. é "professor: | The desertion was. 5 completely the ‘decision. of ‘these four on priPePEONs It seems that the .four ‘seamen decided net to veturn. to the ship, . .: ‘x¢.when the Intrepid entered. Yokosuka Port on October 173; and they were per= 0005 | y mitted to go ashore for rest for one week, . My impression. on meeting these’ = - fen four seamen was that they were. definitely not ‘deserting for the purpose of. _ : ay selfradvertisement or that they were giving false reasons. I 2D | convinced |. +5, BE ‘that they. deserted really. out of doubt. about: the Nietnam WORE le ' Joe ee a. ee “ee ‘What were . the movements of. ‘the. foun, after, ‘they deserted?” ” Professor: ° On the night of ‘the. 23rd, two “Gays before ‘the intrepid nae . ¥\.was:due to.sail, the four went to Shinjuku, and told the people whom they | coe met at a bar they happened to visit, that "we are fed up with war." The. 0 | “.. 4, Japanese who heard them sympathized ‘with ‘them, : and. at’ one time, the four = ~ lived with some hippies (according ‘to this paper's investigations, they — include Mr, K., a student of Tokyo University's Liberal Arts Department, - a : and vanguard 3 artist Bees who gather at Fugetsudo in 2 Shinjulsie ). _Fanalays
14-00000 . they were “taken: £6 Bebieiren by a student ‘who * spoke English (according + to. : ; ‘this paperts investigation, this was Mr. S,, a Waseda University student). wy nafene" that, they’ were hidden by Beheiren, t cannot Bay where a they, were ‘Professor:" My ‘purpose in n visiting. “Japan ‘ ‘was ‘to ‘dissuade the, four. a I explained to. them what the results of their desertion would be. I even gtold them that they would never again be permitted to stand on American soil; atheir fatherland... At the time I met. -them ,- -it was: still. at..a-stage where re «they. would only receive alight punishment y: Af. ey eet é back immediately, a 7 Saying that they “had migsed i their ship ; : te There, ate =a ate “yates , pee? a ‘ . pe The ‘four’? seamen's ‘desertion was. ‘announced: “tn. ‘the form of a. ‘Press, r interview given by Beheiren,:..Were there, no. facts -of thein haying. been © forced to desert, Curing. ‘that, period? | ie ‘ day : “Professor? L ascertained. “that: point ;° ‘too: “However, ‘they firmly denied: any fact of their having. been forced, saying that they had voluntarily ‘consulted Beheiren as to whether they should publicly. announce the °x ve 8 intention to desert, and, at 80, in what form this should be made. : oo Where are ‘the four seamen. Row, and where § are they planning to go? on ; “Professor: 1 am 1 certain that the four’ of “them were ‘still in Japan, * up ‘until the lith, the day I left for home. * However, they already knew. fully well that it was not possible for them to obtain asylum in Japan... They even said that “we will probably have to: go to some third nation, | which is neutral." (The public security authorities judge that.the four - seamen left Japan immediately after Mr. YOUNG'"s persuasion, and consider that 7, they, probably were ‘smuggled out: of Japan. :after the l0th,-and before the «°:: vir evening .of the. 13th, when :.~.Behedren announced their désertion ‘ata press .  gonference, .. However, Mr, YOUNG says that the four seamen were in Japan up. wuitil the night of the 11th... Therefore, the, possibility -is strong that they were: emuggiea out of reper by. ‘Ships ‘between ‘the night of: ithe.. Lith and the. os pelicososs When “the Films were. publicly shown ,there was ‘bigs “excitement, _ ‘with rows and rows of television and‘ press cameramen. TI thought I would be« =": exposed to persistent questioning by the FBI and the CIA, after I returned.- chome , but. so, far, I have only been, questioned : once .by* the. Wavy.'s. Intelligence 7s ‘Section, about the circumstances, ;.Jt, seems that: -American authorities con- ” Tr cemned fo. not want to 2 make too > big, a fuss ‘over. the matter. aca het : “Ring en: am et, “Pragessor: A certain. “television ‘station. ‘sskea, “the ‘other: of one of ae the four’ men about her son's. Life..;, This mother was completely ; -perplexed, saying: "My son -is | a: Most. average American: youth. His:school records © were quite, o ordinary and he. “otea Sports: ae ‘dake, ‘any. other student.” ak wore ‘Ve ene page pete a ay i, fu £ aeTKe.