OPC and Japan
There was a series of mysterious incidents occurred at Japanese National Railways (JNR) in the summer of 1949: Shimoyama Incident, the Mitaka Incident, and the Matsukawa Incident (August 17).
On July 5, 1949, Shimoyama Sadanori, the first president of JNR, went missing, and shortly after midnight, his body was discovered. With Shimoyama's death increasing the climate against labor unions and the Communist Party, JNR notified that 100,000 people would be dismissed, and two days later an unmanned train runs out of control at Mitaka Station, killing six people. On August 17, a train departing Fukushima Station derailed and overturned between Kanaya River and Matsukawa. The engineer and two others were killed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 the month before Germany had signed the surrender document. After the World War 2, the U.S. government planned to let Chiang Kai-shek rule China and not only provided him with $2 billion but also dispatched a military advisory group. It is said that Joseph Stalin also supported Chiang Kai-shek.
Comparing the forces in the summer of 1946, the KMT forces had a total strength of 4.3 million, in contrast the Red Army (Communists) numbered just over 1.2 million, and its equipment was outdated and taken from the Japanese. The game seemed clear.
However, in the summer of 1947, the People's Liberation Army (PLA, renamed in March 1947), backed by the support of the peasants, launched a counteroffensive. PLA was approaching with 2.8 million troops compared to the KMT's 3.65 million. In January 1949, PLA entered Beijing without bloodshed, the Communist leadership also entered Beijing.
On 18 June 1948, Harry S. Truman approved NSC 10/2 which created the Office of Special Projects. OSP was renamed to the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) on 1 September 1948. OPC was a sabotage organization. Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, and James Forrestal helped form it. It actually operated independently until October 1950.
The first director of OPC was Frank Wisner, who, during the war, belonged to OSS and served under Allen Dulles. Wisner was a Wall Street lawyer like Dulles.
Before PLA was entering Beijing, OPC had taken control of Shanghai. Then it moved the East Asian base to Japan. It established six bases, including Atsugi Air Base. The People's Republic of China was established in October of that year.
The OPC was brought under the control of the CIA in October 1950. Allen Dulles was recruited as Deputy Director for Plans from January, 1951 to August, 1951. He was promoted to deputy director of Central Intelligence in Augus, 1951, and served Director of Central Intelligence from February, 1953, to November, 1961.
On June 22, 1950 a dinner was held at the home of Compton Pakenham, the Tokyo bureau chief of Newsweek magazine. It is known that Pakenham had taught Kishi Nobusuke English and political behavior until his death in 1957.
In addition to Pakenham, Harry Kahn, John Foster Dulles and John M. Allison, were also present from the U.S. side. On the Japanese side were Watanabe Takeshi, Matsudaira Yasumasa, Kaihara Osamu, and Sawada Renzo.
On June 26, four days after the dinner and the day after the outbreak of the Korean War, Emperor Hirohito delivered a verbal message to Dulles just before his return home, stating that "some form of advisory council of such Japanese" should be established.
In June 1952, during the Korean War, a police station in Sugo Village, Oita Prefecture was bombed. This was the so-called “Sugo Incident”.
Two Communist Party members were arrested, and three others were arrested in separate incidents, which later turned out to be a "false flag operation" orchestrated by the police authorities.
Ichiki Haruaki (later revealed to be Todaka Kiminori), who was believed to be a key figure in the case, disappeared after the incident, but was found in Tokyo by a special investigative team from Kyodo News.
From his testimony, it was learned that he was a police officer in the security division of the Oita Prefectural Police Headquarters and that he was the one who obtained the dynamite and brought it to the police station.
Normally, Totaka would have been severely punished and his background would have been investigated, but his sentence was waived. Moreover, three months after his conviction, the National Police Agency promoted him from sergeant to lieutenant and reinstated him. He eventually rose to the rank of chief superintendent and became the head of the department of technical education at the National Police Academy. And even after he retired, he was still treated well by the government. This strongly suggests that the police were deeply involved in the bombings.