The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-12-06
Fantastic Thai
Spy Base Barred;
Got Jap Secrets
Regent and Premier Shown
AS Aiding Allies on
Foe Movements.

of American information on Japa-
nese movements - the supposedly
enemy country of Thailand, by the
highly secret office of strategic serv-
ices, says the International News
Service.
Thailand, OSS disclosed, definite
ly was not an enemy of the United
States in the Pacific war, but one
of Americas best friends.
The secret of fabulous intelligence
work by both heroic That's and
Americans who were struggled into
Thailand during the war by sub
marine, flying boat, night parachute
jumps, landings on secret air
fields, and long overland tricks from
China across French Indo-China
came out when the state department
gave the hint to make it known.
The hint came when Secretary of
State Byrnes promptly accepted
Thailand's reputation of its dec
laration of war against the United
States shortly after Japan's surren-
der.
Thus did Byrnes show that Thai
land had never been considered an
enemy, but rather a secret sup
porter of the United Nations while
being linked to Japan as her ally.
Regent Helped Out.
OSS declared that Luang Pradit,
regent of Thailand, who spoke for
the king as leader of the govern
ment, actually led the courageous
Thai underground and resistance
against Japan.
Through OSS and its British coun-
terpart, Pradit was in constant
touch with the American state de-
partment, the British government,
and the Allied military command in
the India-Burma theater, while deal
ing daily with the Japanese in his
country and sheltering American in
telligence men under the enemy's
noses.
American officers of the OSS lived
in the heart of Bangkok, capital of
Thailand, in the midst of Japa-
nese garrison of 1000 troops and
watched enemy soldiers strolling in
the street as their radio kept touch
with the OSS base in Ceylon.
That radio kept American mill
tary leaders fully informed of the
discoveries of Thai underground
leaders and the network of intelli-
gence agents set up by That's trained
by the OSS.
AT the same time II jungle camps
were established by OSS army per-
sonnet who parachuted into the coun-
try to train guerrillas for a general
revolt of Thailand against Japan.
Such a revolt was postponed by
Thailand at the urging of the Allied
military command because of the
high value of the intelligence net to
the Allies.
Struggled News Out.
That's themselves who braved per-
sonal danger in aiding the Allies in
cluded such men as the premier,
Thawi Bunyaket, who led guerrilla
forces, and Chief of Police Luang
ABDUL Aduldeckarat, who aided in
smuggling Allied intelligence men
into and out of the country.
OSS said that through the OSS
men in the country and their COM
munications system, the That's made
known to our military command ev-
cry Jap movement, almost as soon
as it had occurred Thailand was
one of our very few sources of direct
intelligence on the Japanese.
"Since it was officially allied to
Japan, high Thai military officers
often had conversation with their
Japanese equivalents and these
conversations were repeated to the
American OSS men in Bangkok"
Thailand's clandestine alliance
with the United Nations dated back
to the summer of 1912, when OSS
men started efforts to contact the
potential Thai underground they
knew existed. The contact was made
early in 1943, when two Thai under
ground representatives, Sanguan Tu-
larak and Daeng Tilaka, came out
overland into China and were sent
back to the United States.
They and others, student volun-
teers of Thai origin, were trained by
the OSS in this country through aid
of M. Semi Pramoj, Thailand minis
ter to the United States, who organ
lied a free Thai movement. There
after wholesale intelligence work got
under way