CABLE DISCUSSING HUNT'S BOOK TITLED 'THE PRESIDENT'S SPY'
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 04/08/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1, MAJOR CIA STORY 8 APRIL IS IN ASAHI VERNACULAR ON INSIDE

PAGE AND - IN BOLD PRINT • IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASAHI ON PUBLICATION

IN JAPANESE OF HOWARD HUNT'S BOOK "THE PRESIDENTIS SPY-- MY 2D

YEARS WITH THE CIA," REPORTEDLY PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. IN 1974.

2. LENGTHY ACCOUNT FOCUSES ON JAPAN. ALTHOUGH NAMES

DISALA

NOT MENTIONED, STORY HAS RUNDOWN ON NORTH ASIA COMMAND AND ITS

(STATIONS AND ON HUNT'S WORK AS NAC OFFICER IN CHARGE OF SECRET

OPERATIONS, E.G.

A. RASTVOROV CASE

B, DEFECTION INDUCEMENT OPS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN PILOTS.

C. SPOILING OP AGAINST FIRST PRO TRADE FAIR,

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D. PROJECT WHICH OBVIOUSLY BGSAMURAI.

3, ASAHI PAYS CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO LAST PROJECT BECAUSE HUNT fiLE

SAID CIA USED "A FAMOUS OLD SAMURAI AND HIS SON IN TOKYO" AS COLLABORA-

TORS IN POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS-- SEVERAL MILLION

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PUBLICITY FIRMS AND ANTI-COMMUNIST LABOR UNIONS.

4, ASAHI BEGINS GUESSING GAME THAT IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE

AS TO IDENTITY OF SAMURAL, EXPERTS THINK KODAMA AND HIS SON WERE

TOO YOUNG AT THAT TIME.

5, WE UNABLE LOCATE HUNT 1974 BOOK HERE. IF IT CONTAINS

MORE THAN THE ABOVE, PLEASE AIR MAIL ONE COPY.

6 OKINAWA TIMES 7 APRIL REPORTS THAT G-2 ANNEX UNIT ON

OKINAWA DENIES ACCUSATIONS OF JOINT OPERATIONS WITH FBIS, JCP

AND MILITARY SPECIALISTS DOUBT THE DENIALS.

7. 15 APRIL ISSUES OF WEEKLY MAGS, OUT NOW, ALSO GETTING

INTO ACT, SHUKAN ASAHI PUBLISHED OLD COLBY INTERVIEW WITH .

ORIANA VALACCI AND A NEW ASAHI INTERVIEW WITH TAD SZULC. TRASHY

SHUKAN BUNSHUN RAN REHASH ON GH@/CIC/DOCUMENT RESEARCH SECTION/

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