Word: yamaguchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both these agents were reported safely out of the country last week. Unnamed, due to the Department of State's tact and powers of persuasion, was Farnsworth's third client, Commander Bunjiro Yamaguchi, also of the Japanese Embassy staff in Washington. Said Tokyo: "Although our hands are clean, stories published in America are admittedly embarrassing...
...Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis' presence, told him he needed money at once. A meeting place was arranged, and Farnsworth tried to persuade Lewis to masquerade as a cabdriver, accompany him. Lewis refused, but so anxious was Farnsworth to prove his authenticity that he took Lewis to the office where he had The Service...
...went smoothly up to last November when Commander Yamaguchi supplanted Commander Yamaki at the Embassy, coldheartedly resolved to pay Farnsworth on a piecework basis. This sudden drop in income forced the liquor-sodden Farnsworth to go to Newshawk Lewis. It was not long before "Dodo" was in jail...
Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
Significantly both short-selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet...