The CIA's Most Genius "Inside Job"?

Try AnyDesk for free today: https://anydesk.com/spectacles A terror plot in 1949 changed Japan forever. But who really did it? — Patreon: https://spectacles.link/patreon Nebula: https://spectacles.link/nebula Merch: https://spectacles.link/shop Discord: https://spectacles.link/discord Script: https://www.spectacles.news/japan-in-1949-was-insane/ For citations, turn on CC. Sources below ↓ — About us: Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — SOURCES A. Chalmers A. Johnson, *Conspiracy at Matsukawa* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972). B. Shigeru Yoshida, *The Yoshida Memoirs* (1973). C. Japanese Constitution, via Constitute: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Japan_1946 D. Douglas MacArthur, “Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Directive to the Japanese Government 550,” 4 January 1946. E. Douglas MacArthur, “[Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East](https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.3_1946%20Tokyo%20Charter.pdf),” 19 January 1946. F. Michael Petersen, “[The Intelligence That Wasn’t: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan](https://www.notion.so/Researching-Japanese-War-Crimes-Introductory-Essays-25dde9db986b807a9364d9b15200852e?pvs=21),” in *Researching Japanese War Crimes: An Introduction*, (National Archives and Records Administration for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, 2006). G. Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the Making of Japan's Transwar Regime,” in *The Asia Pacific Journal* 12 (40). H. Brad Williams, “US Covert Action in Cold War Japan: The Politics of Cultivating Conservative Elites and its Consequences,” 50 (4), 593-617. I. George Kennan, “Report by the Director of the Policy Planning Staff,” in *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VI*, 25 March 1948. J. Paul J. Heer, *Mr. X in the Pacific: George Kennan and American Policy in East Asia* (Cornell University Press, 2018). K. Douglas MacArthur, [Letter to Prime Minister Yoshida](https://www.nytimes.com/1950/06/06/archives/text-of-macarthur-purge-order-protective-not-punitive.html), 6 June 1950. L. CIA Contact Report, POCAPON*,* 1 November 1955. — 00:00 MATSUKAWA 03:43 IDEALISTS 09:26 CYNICS 13:01 DISASTER 19:15 MUTINY 23:27 TO 1960 — Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Includes Music by Tom Fox Lowpoly Human Rigged by IcySugar on Blendswap: https://blendswap.com/blend/21420 "BR52 Steam Locomotive Animation" (https://skfb.ly/6UI7n) by Ryan.Qin is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). "abandoned railroad" (https://skfb.ly/otVOr) by gav is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). "Central Pacific Combine Car" (https://skfb.ly/6RJW6) by Nathaniel Onandia is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).