Secret Servants; A History of Japanese Espionage

New York, N.Y. Paperback Library, Inc., 1968. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. 255, [1] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Post-Mortem, and Bibliography, as well as chapters on The Beginning of the End; The Model; Background to Espionage; Accent n Patriotism; Preparations for the First Trial; The First Great Victory; The Final Touches to the Plan; The Lawrence of Manchuria; Everyone Can Spy: Everyone Must Spy; Everyone in the Card Index; The Plan Goes into the Last Phase; The Ten-Year Plan in the Dutch East Indies; The Assault on Central America; The Student of English at Stanford; 117 1/2 Weller Street, Los Angeles; The E-Naval Traitors; The Night Club Owner on the West Coast; It Began with Nude Girls; The Steward of Singapore; Colonel Osaki's Defeat in Success; The Smoke and Noise of Climax. Also includes Post-Mortem and Bibliography. In the bibliography at the end, the author acknowledges both the documentary material (under the reference numbers provided by the Library of Congress check list) and the printed sources by the name of the work and the author. Ronald Sydney Seth (5 June 1911, England – 1 February 1985), a British writer who wrote travel books and books about espionage. He was educated at Cambridge University. At the start of World War II, he joined the BBC and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1942 joined the Special Operations Executive. He was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the Sicherheitsdienst as an agent and spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in Oflag 79, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by Himmler, which he carried to London. Derived from a Kirkus review: From accredited sources, many of them Japanese documents recently made available, this integrates the story of Japanese espionage, a talent native to this people, along with the techniques and tactics used over the last hundred years. Based on the system inaugurated in Germany by Wilhelm Stieber, Bismarck's great spymaster who developed a secret police force which operated on an international as well as national basis, Japan also added the patriotic society as a means and sex as a weapon. With world domination in view, their greatest success was at Port Arthur in 1904; later, under Doihara, called the Lawrence of Manchuria, they achieved infiltration there; and with the '30's, began their assault against the Americas- achieved largely through the flux of fishing boats. Pearl Harbor, of course, caps and writes a temporary conclusion to this history.... A calm handling of material which could be open to sensationalism. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Japan, Espionage, Doihara, Spies, Port Arthur, Lawrence of Manchuria, Osaki, Weller Street, Dutch East Indies, Al Blake, Kempei Tai, Pearl Harbor

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