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27 Novenber 1967}

MELORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

SUBJECT:

BEHSIREN and the Four U.3. Kary Deserters

A. Origin and Dovelopment of BEHEIREN.

1.

Founding: •BELEIREN (Japan "Peace for Vietnam" Con-

mIttee) was organized in April

nontually as & politically

Independent group of intellectuals and cultured persons whose

purpose vas "to help restore peace in Vietnan."

Actually, it

in a loosEly organized gIOuD Of OX-JCP members, progressive

Intellectuals, leftist cultured persons, and leftwing students

- banded together in the name of opposition to the Vietsam var

by two cosmon denominators, dedicated anti-inericanisu and i

refusal to be dontuated or controlled by the orthodox Japan

Communist Party.

Hard-Core Secretariat: The real force behind the

organization of BILEIRaN,

right Irom the beginning to the

present, has been a brilliast Communist named YOSHIKANA

Yuichi, whose conspiratorial organizational skills bave

been perhaps the nost indispensible ingredients; In BEHEIPIN's

development.

YOSHILAVA WAS expelled fIOn TObyO UnIverSitY

for his role as a ZENGAKUREN leader in the 1960 U.S. Japan

security Treaty riots.

Ho then went into fulltime JCP nass

movenent professional work, becoming the Secretariat official!

in charge of international

relations for the Japan Peace.

committoe.

YOSFIXATA broke with the Jel in lato 1964,

{0110N225

the rupture in relations between the JCe and CPSU

: 12 day that year.

The inspiration loT ERFEIREN SprIngs in

largo measure IrOn YOSHIKAVA's personal cessIo to use his

organizational talents in countering the ICP and 1ts Japan

Peace Connittee.

¿OStILLiA, in addition to being a veil.:

qualffled English linguist hinself, years ago surrounded

hinself with a srall following of similarly quallfied

licutenants, thon he brought slong into saltiReli to give

him the necessary depth and experience to run this new

orgaa1zat102. JOSHIKANA functions as BEHEIREN's Secretary

Generat..:

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Rospoctable Intellectual Front:

FOLIONIIN fuRda-

mental Communist principles

novement work (better

than the JCP itsolf follows these tenets), the ex-JCP

OrganIZErS Of ELBEIREN Lept themsolvos tI

and lined up a number of prominent Japanese progressive

intelloctuals and leftist cultured persons to front for

BERLINE!.

The choice of ODA lakoto, ex-Fulbrightor and

popular young novelist, to be the

chief front ban - Chair-

M2N - WAS an eXtINOLY lUCy stIOle fOI BLHEIREN.

taken to this grand-standing, front vori 1140 a duci to

It has fiven him a chance to siva unbridled vent to

his own latent anti-anerican

foolings, pulled hia up to the

extent that he has been dubbed "the euperor" by other BEHEIHON

activists, and givon him at long last an Ideological mission

XOStIKAYA has performed magnificently in feeding

that his mords and actiona tako on sufficiently viruleat

anti-sterican overtones.

Odd has served anothor vital

LunCtiOn fOr BETEIREN by reCrULting e sizeable nunber of

¡elloy satellectuals to join the ianis oi buisiRel activists.

lattachnent 1 is a listing of a nurbor of thosa Japanose tho

haVe bEen IdentifIed aS ACtiVe BEHEIREN SUppOrteIS or ajupa-

ithizers.)

Oryanizational Developient: In its 2 1/2 year

history,

FIRSIREN has not appreciably changed 1ts orgunizational fOrnat,

although, it has noved its office three times and nodified its

name even oftener.

PELEIREN 15 not a "mass organization",

cause it has had so sizeable popular bacing to the present

Its hard core, secretariat organization la run by

YOSHIKAHA and his Ijeutenants.

Its public image,

Iront is led by ODA, and given body by a score of Ilke-inded

-Intollectual friends of ODA and YOSHIKAtA, who form the loose

body of subtlash's actlviat loadership. Under this BANDIPEN

leadership superstructure lios a paltry base of only several

hundred BEHEIREN "rank-and-file" supporters, mostly young

JapanESe StUdentS. OLEAniZAtiONaLlY, MMITIRS sS nO ICTRaI

nenbership systen, so its base of supporters is fluid and not

preCiseLy NasurabLe. HOWeVeI, the bISe SUppOrt dot INaSIRiN

has definitely been on the upswing during 1967, and made such

notablo strides during the past summer that JCP Headquarters

officials finally folt constrained to noto uith conccrn that

BEEFIREN was beginninE to dials oft & growing number of pro

gressive youth who otherwise would have been absorbed into

the JCP's own youth novenent.

BEFRIREN leaderS have tried to

help this grouth along by sotting up a youth section, calllag

It "Young BELGIREN. "

BEFSIREN'a imagluativo actions and

publicity-conscious prograns have been respossible for 1ts

recent growth, and this period os growth seens to be not on

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the

verge

of really picking up speed and nonentur.

of its role in the case of the lour deserting sallors,

As a

Iesult

BELEIREN

has reaped bountiful publicity, has succeeded

in touching a

delicate japanese public nerve of sympathy und pacifisu,

оред-

Ing a floodgate of support for BEHEIREN fron all over Japan.

When this case fades

it is still most

Iskely that a fair percentage of current tave of popular

SuppOrt {ON BEHEIREN wIll sOlidifI tate permanent mass backing,

giving Burtose ior the first time: a meaninziul base to

support its future activities.

5.

BEHGIREN has engaged

in a number of propaganda actions,

and participated in inter-

national anti-Viotnam Var activities:

It has tried to co

operate with certain front activities in Japan controlled by

the JCP, most notably the Japan

Comnittee to Investigate Har

Crines in Vietnam

which culminated in the Tokyo

Court of last august,

but has been soundly and rudely rebuffed

by the JCD.

In spite of this, BEHEIRSN bas churned along at

its own pace, with a continuing series of ant1-Viatnan war

sctions, most of then related in some way to the American

pacifist novement.

In this regard, ERFEIREN has succeeded in

cornering 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 for BElEIREN, only

points up the fact that BEECIREN, through past organizational

wori and pronotional activities, was "johnny-on-the-spot",

ready and capable (unique in Japan in this regard) to take

the ball and run with 1t. BElEIREN ran all the way in this

case and scored its most notable success since it was organized.

(Attachment 2 is a listing of BECIREN's more notable activitios

since its founding.

Attachnent 3 is a partlal listing of

American and other

foreign persons known to have been in

contact with or cooperated with BEFEIREN.)

B. The Case of the Four Sailor Deserters and BOHEIREN.

1:

How It Started:

The consensus of all available overt

medis material,

with

no recorded dissent,

indicates that the

four sailors voluntarily left their ship,

went Alch, and ended

up wallowing around Tokyo's hippio-land.

Precisoly that personal

grievances prompted the four to embark on this mis-adventure is

not yet known. But, up to this point, the four could fairly be

categorized as misguided youngsters, gone astray in i foreign

land, and due to get slapped back in line with traditional

Navy justice when they finally decided to stop the lun and go

back to the ship.: So far, this nade their cases far from

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2.1 Hor It Beche an Incident:

instoad of returning to

tol ship of their ord volition of being apprehended by. the

sbaro Patrol, the

four nade contact with BEELIRiN leaders.

Assis, pross reports indicate that this vas just a colncidence,

Tist there was no pre-planning by the four to contact BaLEIRDN.

Tooso are no available overt nor covert reports that indicate

But, once the BEHEIREN people nade contact, they

rocogated the potential inmediatoly and moved last for the

1111.

(Attachuent 1 is a Ioniuri newspaper clipping,

22 NOV-

auber 1957, that is both 1

representative and comprehensiva

account of

this phase of the case.

Even if this articlo

•abould contrin sone sinor Inaccuracies,

basic line seCHa

factual and

has not been challenged claewhere.

: 3.

BENEIREN Tates Over: then the four made contact with

PETEIRIN, it suddenly bacare an entirely different ballgane.

BEFCIRIN had everything needed to capitalize on this:

veteran

activist lendors who ara esperlanced enough to recogniza the

windsall that had come their way; an apparatus that could

provide hiding places for the four; long standing l1JisOn

contacts with Soviet EMbassy OffICIalS LoI Use in preming

exit sron japan; solla contidis with rollable Anerican

pacifists with "hon the bona fides of the four sallors could

be checked; noney and organization to capitalize on the

propagands

1AIt1a1 BEFEIREN pIESE CONfereNCe annOUncinE the descrtiOn,

•propared more likely than not by BEHIIREN stalvert EUEd

kelnosuke, an independent film producer, and English speaking

activists capable of sympathizing, encouraging, soothing, or

afstating the four young sailors, so that there vould be no

-turBing back.

A. The BEBrIPEN Apparatus At Hork:

"allo many of tha

sas1l pleces of this puzzle,

which would put the whole case 1t

proper detailed chronological order and eliniusto speculation

on sinor points, are still wissing, enough 1s kuonu sow,

through overt and cavort sources, that the picture of BarEllEN's

adept handling of this case shines through clearly.

Ing alonents, all part of the BoLIREK apparatua, uake Ep the

buld of the picture:

a) Hide-out:

When EEHEIREN got hold of the four on

about 26 October,

they had to be hiden out for the approzimate

two week period until their caft Iron Japan could be arranged.

This presented BEHCIREN no great logistical problen.

& number

of the BESTIREN activist leaders have hones vell suited to

barbaring fugitives.

tor example,

BEHEIIEN activist leader

FURSAK MItENradI baS a VLIla hidden auay 1I ChIgAsaNE, thicA

was used on the night of 12 Septenber for a moeting of about

tOp BEFEIREY leaders, and which would be highly suitable

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for aiding the four deserters.

Other private-drollings, be

Longing tO BSTLIRIN Icaders and loyal supporters, are scattered

throughout both tho fanto and Lansai sreas.

D) BEHEITCH/Soviet Linison:

RELEIREN SeCrOtarY GeNELAI

FOSINKAld has raintained poriodic contact with Soviet Zubassy

BELGILEN Chairman OBA has net Soviet

PEACE COnNitICO OLLICINIS in MOsCOT.

ThE OXACT BERNS OL DOW

this jiaison was accomplished in this case is precisely inom

fron a covert phone tap on the Sovlet Embassy's line:

transcript 1s available of tro phone calls bade on 20 Octobor,

first by Brian Victoriaito Chicl Press Attacho Nikolay V.

VasilyeviCh,

and second by YOSMIKAVA to First Secretary

Sergey D. Anisinoy, urgently requesting a private meating

later that day to discuss "an extremoly important, extrenoly

delicato untter",

without doubt the case of the four sailors.

C) BEEEIREN/U.S. Pacifist Liaison:

BELEIRIN contacted

Dartmouth University profossor Arneat P.

Joung, who flew to:

Japan on & November, apparchtly helped BElEIREl leaders chock

out the boas fidos of the deserters, and returned to the u.s..

on 11 November.

(attachnent 5 1e; tho translation of a Sankel

Shinbun article, dated 21 Novenher, reporting an interview

with Young; giving his version of his tole 1a this case.

5.

Escape to doscow;

The four desorterg turned up 1n

MosCow on 20 Novenber.

The press his speculated widely and

unanimously that the lour left Japan on the Soviet passenger

Agali, there is no dissenting

sbip Baidal on Il Novenbor. The ouly mystery concerning this

opinion, overt nor covert.

finzi phase of the Japanese portion of this cuse conceras the

unchanics of how the four boarded the Balkal and tha assisted

in thIS MEncIUver.

But with the sailiag of the Balkal fron

jokohana, BEISIREN conpleted its nost bighly successiul and

beautifully executed activity in its 2 1/2 year history.

Not

only did BEEKIREN snear the American Govornnent's inage

in

Japan, not ouly did BEIFIREN gaIn & vast anount of priceless

publicity that will swell the ranks of its supporters and be

Invaluable in tuture actiritios, but Burlier doubtlessly

even nado a proilt, financially, ou this lor budget operation

- donations are st111 pouring into BEFYIREN Headguarters fIon

all over japan to "help and protoct U.S. deserters".

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Attachnent No. 1.

Japaneso Tho Have Been Identified as

ActIve DEFEIRIN Supportors of Evapathizers

1.)

SOSAIRANA Xulchi (DIFFINEK Secrotary Genexal) - fOruer JСР

52@8210+32

2.

ODA Makoto (BEHEIREH Chairman) - popular novelist.

3. TAIKO Men - Arutagana prize vinning novolist.

4o KUBO KOlnOsUkO - LIIn producer and director.

5. TSUNtuI shussuke - Doshisha University professor.

6. TSURUNI Kazuro - sister of Shunsuke (thoir father le the late

pailosopher, lusuke).

7.. FURUYAMA YOzo • high schoal toscher.

8. MUTO lchiyo - ex- ICe (Iried to travel to U.S. to represent

BELGIREN at October 21 denonstrationg this year, but was

denied i vica to enter the u.s.)

Q.. XENADA Atsushi - ex-JOr.

10.

JUKUDA Joshiyuil - playwilter.

11. TONING IChiro - cartoonist.

→12. - FUKASALU lItsusada - professor:

13. AWAzU kiyoshi = exaphic designer.

1%.. TARADO Kasane - Christian leader.

•15.: YOSHIDA RIjU - Lilu director.

16. UMIHARA Shun - writer.

17.

HASIIKOTO HineD - Buddhist priest.

18.

HOTTA Yoshie - novelist.

18.

• GOTO HIroyuld • scientist.

=30.

EUVABARA TakeO - prOICssOr dt Kyoto University.

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21. SAKAHOTO Yoshikazu - Asststant professor at Tolyo University:

22. SIDALA BOkurO -professor at Tolyo Univcrsity.

23.

LIDÀ Mono - uriter.

25.

TSURULI Toshiyukt - euployed at International House la Tosyo.

25.

TERAl Minako

26.

ANAI FUMIBIKO

27.

NASU Magan20

28:

KATSULOTO Ich1ju

28•

FUKUTCI. Setsua

30. BULIHARA YUILO

31.

otc:

ANDO Jimbel, CHIBA Mido, EGANA Taku, FUJII Nittatsu,

HARIYU IChITO, HOSHINO YaBuSEbuTO, ICHII Saburo, IXBYALA JuTO,

ISHIDA Takesh1, KANAI Yosbiko, HASAI Selichl, KATÁGIRI Tuzuru,

KATO Shuich1, FAZALA Michitaro, HATSUURA SOZO, EIDOEGRO Hasao,

I2T4X0J1 Satoshi, KOBAXASEI Shoichiro, KOATSU Sakyo,

ROBAYASEI TORI, KUNO OSaRU (Shu), AURODA Eldetashi, MARUYALA

Lasao, MIDORILATA TOrU, HIZUSATA YaDA, MORITAIT Ichiro,

LUCHAKU SOibYO, WURAMATSU HiTO, NISITO Nobort, NOURA loicht,

OGOSEI Teruo, OrsUKOrsT Tochiko, SSRIZAMA Tae, SEIRAY Shingel,

SEINMA Takesa, SHISIIDO Hiroshi, SUGIURA MItsuO, SUGIYANG

Tatsunar", SUzUKI Bagabira, TALGUCHI Toshitouo, WADA Kagahisa,

SALADA Kunenitsu, YAMADA TOshiO, YALAGUCHI SOSaLU, YAMANISEI

E11ChSe JASUDA Takeshi, JOSTINO GODZabUrO, YOSIIYARA Boichiro,

ORALOTO TarO, MATSULOTO Seicho, EI Bokusuke, IZUlI Talu,

AVAYA NOTikO, KATO YOShÍTO, SHIROYAMA Saburo, TAKAFASHI

Taletomo, ODAGIRI Bideo, OKULA MinOrU, SANO KeD11, SUZUKI

SITIROGARA SeJe1, BARUYANA SuRIO,

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TOBBIKAZU, SAITO Masahiko, otC.

Although not recorded here, many of the above persons

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Attachnent No. 2

lSone BEREIRUt Activities and Accomplsshments

Regular once-per month denonstrations at a public parí ia

Tolyo, consistilg of antinacrican specches and falloned by streot

marches.

An a11 xight TV "teach-in" vith BEBCINEN activist leadore,

along s1th special

guest, U. S. pacifist Carl Oglesby (Chairnan of

the Students for a Denocratic Society.

A full page advertisement in tho Mer Jork Iines (16 Noveaber

1965),

Tolloned by another iuit page ac ia the fasuzarton fost

(3 Apx1] 1957), appealiny to hacricans to stop the var in Vietnau.

4." A "Meet in COrICTENCe of IWo Natlons for Icaco in Vietuan,"

and attended by BLEriRiN actávists aud

WEVenD.So Poeiistiedere(adudiee dee dellinger, eeaosserte .

Eron France, lngiand, Casada, the USSR, Pabistad, and Mongolia.

A uasE nectiny, in Tolyo in October 1966, quest speakers of

which were Exeach pacifists, Jean-Paul Sartre and Sinone de Beauvolr.

Nationwide tours of Japan foz lecturea and peace Iallios f0I

such ant1-Vletnon var pacifists as Professor Hovard Zian aud the late

Ae Je Miusta of the United States, Claudo Bourdet of France, and Thien

That Hash of South Vietsau.

A mass neeting in toiyo In January 1967, spongored by

JEFTIREN aDd Leaturing U.S. Lolk siuger and pacifist JOIl Baez.

3.' & continuing progran os dircct distribution of panphlots io

!.S. EroonE stationed in

Japan, and those conlng to Japan on narships,

and for rest or hospitalization IrO YíatIa.

•Participation by tuo BElEIREN sctivist leaders (Kyoto

University professor XUHABARA IRiGO and Internationnl House staffer

TsuauaI roshilsyurt, tazing sovantago of a trip to the v.s. to attead

і non-pOlitical Japal-morica Congress on Caltural Problens) 1n

enti-Tietnan uar Speech rrittes ani desosstratzons at vartrouth

Unsvcrsity in early day 1967, followed by an unsuccessiul attemot

So iavite Cassius Clay to visit Japan on bobalf of SEELIREN.

20. Continuing offorts to bring to japan for a nationulde

Fier:

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speech tour on boball of BElEIREN, Saviot poet Yougeni lertusheako,

an effort that las not jet rauched fruition but is still per tas

Participation 1n the Stockholn July 1967 "Norld Cónfererco

on Vietnan," by sending tuo BLItIEN activist leaders as delegates.

•Cooperation nith the JJ.S. Quakers, pacifists, and tarle

Roynolds in sending the yacht "phoenia" with modical aid, first to

Haiphong, thon on a second trip in the fall of 1967, secking but

Ialling to f1nd landfall to deliver modical aid to aitbor North or

South Vietilam.

Attcapted, but failod duo to inabllity to obtain U.S. visa,

BEHEIREN activist leader (AUTO Ichivo) to the U.s. ta

participate in the 21 October 1967 anti-Vietnam far demoastrations.

11. currently carrying out a fund raising campaign to send an

ald ship to North Vietnam.

ders are want let ever coes lad a catate their

and other activities, BEFFICE!

counterparts abroad, such as tho french "Conito! Vietnam National."

In an cffort to generate public support for this aid ship fund

ralEing carpaiga, BEnCIREN succeadad 10 158u1ng 4 public appeal,

Under the AndOrSiNG signIturES of lOKyO GOVErIOr LINOBE BrOTIChi and

Yokohana Kayor ASUKATA Ichio, as woll as the usual intcllectuals

supportinE BElEIREN.

In October 19S7, PEREIREN solicited approval to hold anti-

Vietnan far demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,

expecting to ie denied and then intending to male this denial a court

test case.

dIstord, satIral tas fiven this permission, and conducted

two orderly and voll-publicized denonstrations in front of the incrican

Embassy, garnering a laveci public turn out of participants than la

aNy preViOUS BELLIE!-SpOnSOred dOnORStIatIOn.

16. Assisted end abetted the defection to the USSR of four

ANOTICAN SAILOYS

Iron the U.S. Navy carrier Intrepid.

Folloving this

BuCceSS, BElEIREN's nost effcotive activity to date, BEECIREN leaders

aro organizint a permanent "underground tallwy" of Japaneso iItell-

ectuals tho will volunteer their houes as possible "way stops" for

hiding Luture U.S. military desertors thit EriEllEN non hopes to

Comment: For other details,

sed Tokyd) antclligence reporting.

134145960 51 427

21-12046,

Cutovar

104-12650,

10 May 1967

E7412851,

5 July 1967

PIT+13O81,

8 Sepiember 1967

FJT-13154,

27 Septenber 1967

NM-13303

22 Novenber 1967

A15o, 10

SS

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ATTACFHENT' 3

Partial Listing Of American and Other Foreign

persons known to lave Been 1n Controt with or

Cooperatod with BELEREN

Americans.

1. Staughton Lynd (ez-Yale professor)

2.: Norman baller (novelist)

3. Dave Dellinger (Editor of Liberation)

k Boward Linn (Boston U. pIOfeSEOI)

5. : Donald Keyes (National Comittee for a Sane

Euclear Policy)

G. David Hickeynolds (Chairan, Har Fesisters'

boague,

T: A. J. Husto (non deceased)

8. K771 Heye5

8. : M1llian Davidson

10. Eradford Lyttio

11. Charlotte Thurber

12. : (Hiss) Quantin Bassett (Students for & Denocratic

Society)

19. : Hurray LeViD (Boston I. prOfCEBOr)

Ié- Robert Ockeno (Veterans and Reservists to End

the Har la Viataan

15. Carl Oglesby (Chairnan, Students {O5 a Donocratic

society)

16. Barbara DeRiDE (lasociate editor ol Llberation)

17. J022 Baoz (l0lk Elager)

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18.

Ira Morris (Paris espatriato)

19. Otro Kaisan (phonetic, Her Xork City peaco activist)

20. Barbura and Farle Resolds (divorcod bat separately

ective long-tine residents

In Japan)

21. 1111121 R: Christensen

Can Anerican pacifist drifter,

Who gave BEHDIREN its lirat

esperionce in the summer of

1866 in caploiting for pro-

pagands in Japan, and then in

sIrangiNg the OnTard Journay

Of an AnctiCan thO wanted to

defect to the UssE)

22. BrIan Victoria (head-shaved pacifist and "converted"

Buddhist priest, know to be In

regulat contact

1ith the soviet

Embassy in Tokyo)

25.

"r. Fillowby

(tau, phonetic, "chief of the

quaker

MenCO ACtIOn MOVERENt L1 thE

B.S!)

240

An untdentifiod incrioan ol Japanese descent,

LIOn

Havall, who is currently a student at Haseda University!

25.

Kosaku Janaguchi (reportedly born in U.s.,

citizenship status uncleir) (Cormorly

vas & professor at donojans University

is Osaka, but has been tezchits at the

KRIVEISIXY O1 CAILIOTILA IN BETSOLOY

*: Other Foreimers:

1.

2.

3.

#1khs11 Kotov, USSA (Soviet Peaco Conmittee)

PogEy Duiz, Great Britata (Can a for Nuclear DiS-

Janes Endicott, Canada (World Pesce Counc1])

5.

Fatz Abned Fatt, Pasistan

Goi Gabita Muslepov,. USSR

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7. Urg. Erdenebat Ojon, Hongolia

8.

Konstantin shugnor, osst

9.: Francis liarccl kahn, France (Conite' Vietnau

Fational)

10. Jesn-Paul SaItre and Simone de Bezuvolt, France

11. Thich Nhat Hand, South Vietnan

CONTENTS:

This is not, by any means, a complete listing, sor

does It nocessarlly list BELLIRIN'S nost inportant

activist contacts abroad. But this list 1s I0-

presentativo in showing the brezath of saHillull

11ais0n abroad, particularly tith the american

"new left".

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TTACISENT. I

THE YOMIURI

DeNN 68

Wednesda

4 US Deserters Possibly

Left Japan Aboard Boikol

The four deserters flom the US aircraft carrier Intrepid who made a dramatic tele-

rision appearance Manday in Moscow are believed: to

have left Japan irregularly

soviet port of Nakhodko..

by the Soviet-liner. Baikal which left Yokohama on November 11 for the Far. East

Police

Sources in the Metropolitan test against: the Vietnam war;

Not Worried

-day -

Department said;Tues

' ters..

When he first met the deser-

• that

the four 'Americans

they:

were

practicallo;

could have boarded the ship by

appeared • quitel

special gangway

Government

for Soviet

officials.

berters

wanted

said the

deserters

Japanese watchmen were on

peacefully: in

Japan' and

asked!

parently enjoyed

guard at another gangway, to1

he Beheiren to.

rainary passengers when $22'

In .

which

they:

their

outh wine

iving on

hipple

and

cheap Japanese food

such

listed

passengers.

including

English proficiency

(noodles)

udon

eight Americans,

The Beheiren

boarded

the

they

YUICHL XOSHIKAWA,

liner before it departed

Yoko

could not: live:

Love the Japan

He

said

Japan lif

wanted to'

ossible

live in

four Americans

Japan, and

without being: found. b

in Tokyo.

retary-general of; the Japan

hama at: 11.50 am, November 11

The watchmen

Japariese police of. US militar

Nalto and his

friend. Yamao

Peace-For-Vietnam:

tee (Beheiren), teils commic

;told

police

hat they did not see an

per.

a press

who

as not 'on the pas

shikawa sald. her or later, Yo

decided to ask the help of the?

/ Beheiren

and

delivered

the

conference Tuesday that the

senger

list.: board

four

men

the

to',: the

ship

Beheiren

our interer: a paus may

hrough the min that 17 of

Toy told 20,e

Lived Like Hippies around November,

26.

painter

Naito

was learned. that

¡all

said he believed' that'

in Japan but the Beheiren

cials of the Soviet Embassy and

• that

• and

trade

mission in

could not help them to do so.

'okyo an

cores of visitors boarded th

• Baikal

heml, Sensel: Yamao, a Ripple

the four

Americans

• were.

not

communists.and that.they

had no interest in communist

ideology.

through the

special

gangway.

the police sources said tha

'deserters

and..

Beheiren:

ene decided id to fo someon

have

country

to some

neutral

the

" was "quite possible" that th

Soviet authorities in

lokyo an

ranged 'the deserters' exit

Nato desert An an could not live in Japar

Soviet Union

thate they:

Beheiren Pledge! pie.

hangout

Yuich! Yoshikawa,

Lindner sin

19 at a hip- Ministry

spoKesman foresta, Justice

that

Shinjuku there

secretary.

around October 20.

nothing®

general of the Japan Peace-For-

He

fOruesday legally.

said

both.

Americans

•Vietnam Committee: (Beheiren),

wore leather jackets and other.

told a

ress.. conference

informal

ministrative

ay that the committee

Tues-

clothing which

they Japan-US

Security

not

could

their, rantees

disclose show.

hang-. the

promised. not

to do 60.

He nelther affrmed

Infalley and Lindner

right

Americans left because' it' had

" so come to stay in

to

for dent.

le ve a he understood that

ed the

report that: the

Amer

cans left Japan by the Balkal

November,11.

20_ went

It was

the. Beheiren "which

Naito: said.

announced: for the, frat time

ithe desertion of

the four

crew

made an official request to the

members of the Intrepid, ipro. muku. from October 24 to 26 them heo sded,

He also said there. were no

Japanese laws allowing charger

Ito

be preferred against

the

¡Beheiren officials and other Ja-

panese people who "protected"

the

Americans in 'Japan

helped their departure to

and

Soviet Union::

the

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SANKEI

(Full)

November 21, 1967

Prof: YOUNG Says Four American Deserter Seamen Not in Japan Any More

Tr. Went to Tokyo and Tried to Dissuade Them;

ro;. Probably Escaped from Japan on. the 12th or the 13th

(New York, November 20, Correspondent Tadashi ONODERA)

Enofessar

= ErnestuP. YOUNG of Dartmouth College in the U.s., consented to an interview

With this reporter on the question of the four American seamen who deserted

l 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 representative) 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 house in Tokyo on the 9tr

'and l0th; tried to persuade then to return. In regard to the present where-

Diabouts of these four seamen, he made the noteworthy. statement that "those

"four were still in Japan, up until the night of the With, when I left Japan,

¿but they are probably no longer in Japan now or concucati nes colazes

se do we so beaten proto wait forbide Da

Families Perplexed "iT in ther circle titouCh"

The questions and answers exchanged with professor Youre are as followss

to = Why did you go to Japan? ner?:

Professor: Beheiren contacted David DERKINGER, a pacifist activist?

the U.S. ; asking him to "send someone to Japan to hear the stories of

t;the 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

wother intellectuals in Japan. It was for these reasons that I was given

this assigament. I personally have pever participated actively in the

0; anti-Vietnam war movement so far.. Mock unir eat road 2t.

11? 4:11:

- When did you arrive in Japan, and where did you meet the four

seanen?

305.11

Professor: I arrived. in Haneda on November 8, and met the four seamen

Geon the 9th and the loth. The place of interview was in an apartment house

Tr in 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,

ae for more than three hours on each occasion (according to an investigation

made by the public security authorities, Professor YOUNG arrived in Japan

toward the evening of the 8th, and stayed at Hötel Tanakanwa' in Shiba,

cs Minato-ku, until the morning of the lith).

Us. PHot

Turo"" What were the motives for these four seamen's desertion?

if it'

Professor; The desertion was completely the decision of these four

Ir:persons.. It seems that the four seamen decided not to retum to the ship,

when the Intrepid entered Yokosuka Port on October. 17, and they were per

au mitted to go ashore for rest for one week.. My impression.on meeting these

the purpose of

..four seamen was that they were definitely not deserting for. I am convinced

s-self-advertisement.or that they were giving false reasons.

;that they deserted really. out of doubt about the Vietnam war

What were the movements of the foux after they deserted?

Professor; On the night of the 23rd, two days before the Intrepid

was due to said, the four went to shinjuru, and told the people whom they

met at ä bar they happened to visit, that "we are fed up with war." The

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,

and vanguard artist A., who gather at fugetsudo in Shinjuku.) Finally,

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they were taken to Beheiren by a student who spoke English (according to

this paper's investigation, this was Mr. S., a laseda University student).

After that, they were hidden by Beheiren.

I cannot say where they were

sier; hidden.

Ins- Were the four famly determined to desert ee 7

ciao coppe

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I even

71J their fatherland. At the time I met them..it was still. at a stage where

tri. they would only receive light punishment, if they reported back innediately;

sch saying that they "had missed their ship.". However, their determination was

tus firt, and my persuasion had so effects.

":"-- The four seamen's desertion was announced in the form of a press:

interview given by Beheiren, Were there no facts of their having been

forced to desert, during that periodi and fee a c

- Where are the four seamen. now, and where are they planning to go?

Professor: I am 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 propably 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

oi. they: probably were smuggled out of Japan after the loth, and before the

or evening of the lath, when

.Beheiren.announced their desertion.at.a press

conference, However, Mr. YOUNG says that the four seamen were in Japan up

fer until the sight of the lith. Therefore, the possibility is strong that they

pp were smuggled out of Japan by ship, between the night of the lith and the

Don eveningiof the 13th.= = :

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wirrThe films showing the four seamen were shown publicly in the u.s.,

-by too. What were the reactions in the.U.S.?

Professor, When the films were publicly shown, there was bigi excitement,

with rows and rows of television and press cameramen. I thought I would be

exposed to persistent questioning by the FBI and the CIA, after I returned

turhome, but so. far, I have only been questioned once by the Navy!s. Intelligence

• ci

Section, about the circumstances... It, seems that American authorities con-

w: cerned do not want to make too big a fuss over. the matter. wi

Tili

What do the parents think of this action taken by their sons?

Professor:

A certain television station asked the nother.of one of

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

ivere quite ordinary, and he liked sports, just like any other student.

I cannot understand why he acted in such a way.!"

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