RE PRESENT EXISTENCE BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/27/1955
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. RE PRESENT EXISTENCE BLACK DRAGCH SOCIETY.

ACCORDING

ODOPAL B-3 REP.ET OF 6 CLY 1954 GREAT JAPAN PRODUCTICN PARTY

REORGANIZEU 28 JUNE 1954, BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY TO BE REORGANIZED

AS ITS COVERT ERANCH. ODEPAL B-E REPORT 13 JAN 1955 STATES

AYOSHIDA MASUZO (2679/3744/4135/8$85) HAS LEFT GREAT JAPAN

PRODUCTION PARTY AND TRYING RE-ESTASLISH BLACK DRAGON UNDER NEW

NAME. ODIBEX ES WAY ESTIMATE HIS EFFORTS WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL,

STATES HAS BEEN JUST TALK SO FAR. NO EVIDENCE FROM JAMI SOURCES

THAT BLACK DRAGON SUCIETY OR GENYOSHA NON ACTIVE..

3 RE OGATA TAKETORA RECENT ULTRANATIONALIST OCHNECTIONS.

SEE [Z4J}113. Z2J-222, SFÁ7208, LÉJû7268 AND PARTICULARLY 2JJ185.

ALSO INTSUM 371E, 11 NOV 1952, KHICH REPOSTS HIM ALONG PRIME

SUPPCRTERS WEST JAPAN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION LEAGUE (NISHI

NIPPON KENSETSE KOKUMIN REMMEI); PIHICH ALLEGEDLY ORGANIZED TO FORM

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: POLITICAL GASE FOP MIX. INTOS ALSO LAKS EGATE DITH GREAT

HARMONY PARTY (LAÑA TO), ¡SIN YOUTHS FEADE SOCIETY CASIA

SEINEN LER.A KAN), COOPERATIC: ADD HERNCHY PAFTY (RYOVIA TO)

(WHICH STENG FROM EAST ASIA LENGUE).

.11. 4 LECELEER 1953 CEOPAL

REPORT, E-Z, OGATA 1E LISTER AS ONE OF PEOMOTERS OE TOYALA

SUCIETY, IO 8E ESTABLISHED CO TENTH ANNIVENSE Y "EATH OF TOYAL'A

MITSURU, ACTHER COOPAL INFORMANT STATED SANE, 23 DEC 1953,

F=S. ODOPAL REPORTS V.. OCT 1753, B-ZI FORMATID JATA YOUTH

COPPS, FUKUOKA, TO ASSIST OGATÀ ACCONPLISH HIS FOLITICAL MISSION

AND TO CULTIVATE POLITICAL CONSCICUSHESS AS MEANS CONTRIBUTE

TO RECONSTRUCTION OF FATHERLAND. 29 DEE 1954 DIEDAL REPORT,

B-3, STATED CORPS HAD EIGHTY WEMBERS, WAS IN EFFECT COMBINED

WITH TAKETORA SOCIETY AT SALE ADDRESS FUKUOKA. POSSIBLY

INCORRECT HEFER TO THIS AS LITRANATICHALIST, BUT I'DICATES

ADHERENCE "LEADER" PRINCIPLE. TOKYO NE TROPOLITAN POLICE

INFORMANT TOLD JANI LIAISE: ZE AUG 1954 THAT OSATA AND OTHER

FAVOR REVIVAL BUTCKUKAI (LASTIAL ARTS SOCIETY) TO STRENGTHEN

THE CONSEIVATIVES.

•3. RE OGATA ANTI-WESTERN VIENS. SUGGEST CETAIN PHILIP

• Ja CRCCETT OPINION THIS TOPIC. KUCAGE-II HAS IED NO OPPORTUNITY

• QUERY POGRID BUT RELIEVE HE MULD NOT CONFIRM THIS OR HARUFUL

ULTRANATICNAL IST COIMECTIONS ANYWAY, CONSENSUS CPINION THOSE

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IN JAMI MITH ANY BEALINGS #IF EGATA IS ANTI-WESTERN ALLEGATICN

FALSE. IN FACT NGST RECENT REPCET, LAD LIAISO. FROM MATOWAWA

SECRETARY, 21 APR 1955, STATES SONGISE HELE TAINT ATTACHED OGATA

BECAUSE HIS FRIESELY FEELINGS FOR US. SOIRON TALK ME POLITICAL

WORLD THAT CATA TIED UP WITH US AND SECAUSE FREQUENT VISITS HIS

REFIDIAL RECHEER Di MRCHICA: PERSONNEL MANY PEOPLE FELT HE

GETTING MUCH OF HIS SUPPORT FROL AMERICANS. (FVI, 15 HAR SULSO

REFERS OGATA AS HANG STRONG BENNECTISL WITH KUCRR) OWLY

ITEY LOCATEL CRITICAL U.S. IS OGATA MATICLE 25 AP$ 1952 SALRYO

KEIZAL, SATING ALTHUGH SCAP CPIERED JAPANESE GONT AFREST TONO,

OTHERS AS HAP CRIMINALS, FRÜM URPANESE VIENPOINT THESE MEN

IMPORTANT PEOPLE WHOM EMPEROR FAD TRUSTED. AFTER OST 1945

SCAP PURGE HOME WIISTER YAMAZAKI INAD, EGATA SAID IN CABINET

KEETING, IF THIS SORT THUG TO HAPPEN ME SHOULD ALL RESIGN EN BLOC

AS PROTEST. PRIVE WINISTER HIGISHIKUN! APPROVED, PRESENTED

RESIGNATIONS TO EMPEROR. OGATA CONTINUES, HAD SUSDEEDING CABINETS

FOLLOWED EXALPLE, FE MIGHT HAVE BONE SI TROUT A U.S. "L'ADE CONSTITU-

TION.

4. NAY EE ABLE OBTAIN FURTHER INFO AGENT, LIAISON SOURCES

WITHIN TEN DAYS.

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