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INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER :
5179
SESSION NUMBER:
02
DATE OF SESSION:
29 SEPT 88
DATE OF REPORT:
29 SEPT 88
START:
1400
END:
1500
METHODOLOGY:
WRV
VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025
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MISSION:
ACCESS AND DESCRIBE EMPEROR HIROHITO.
2.
VIEWER TASKING:
TO ACCESS AND DESCRIBE THE
DIVIDUAL
IN THE FOLDER.
3.
COMMENTS:
VIEWER WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN MUCH MORE
INFORMATION ONCE THE MONITOR STRESSED HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS
VERBALIZE.
ONCE THE VIEWER STARTED TO VERBALIZE, IT WAS
'EPORTED THAT THIS MAN WAS ONCE AN ENEMY OF THE U. S. BUT IS
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VIEWER WAS ABLE TO REPORT THAT THE MAN'S
IS NOT GOOD.
VIEWER WAS ABLE TO REPORT THAT BIG
A. GIS IN THE COUNTRY WOULD OCCUR ONCE HE WAS OUT OF POWER.
MORE INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED DURING THIS SESSION THAN
AND THE LESSON LEARNED HERE WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF
FINALIZATION. NO INcleMencias NoteD.
4.
EVALUATION:
(4)
IJS ONLY
ED BY: DIA
(DT)
OADR
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SUMMARY
WORKING PAPER
THIS MAN IS HIGHLY PROTECTED.
HE SUFFERS NOW AND IS
ILL.
THERE ARE VOLUMES OF INFORMATION ON THIS INDIVIDUAL.
HE
WILL BE JUDGED AFTER HIS DEATH.
HE IS VERY POWERFUL AND IN THE
FUTURE THERE WILL BE A PROBLEM AFTER HIS ABSENCE.
HIS HOME CAN
ALSO BE A CHURCH.
HE HAS PRESTIGE.
THIS MAN IS ALSO A SOLLDER.
HE HAS A GRAND NAME.
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WHEN HIS COUNTRY INVADED
(THE U.S. ? ) IT WAS A GRAND
PERFORMANCE AND A SURPRISE.
THIS MAN WAS ONCE AN ENEMY OF THE
U. S. BUT NOW HE IS A FRIEND.
HE BELIEVES IN PEACE AND FREEDOM
NOW.
THIS MAN IS AN HIER.
HIS COUNTRY CELLS SLAVES.
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"Unexpectedly I was taken ill, and
could not visit Okinawa, where I had
a duty to perform" - Emperor Hiro-
hito, New Year 'waka', 1988.
E
orty-two years after the god
dicd, the man is dying, too.
The life of Emperor Hiro-
hito of Japan, the last sur-
viving national Icader of World War
I and a "living god" for the first 20
years of his reign, is drawing to an
end, and the Japanese are going to
get a new style of emperor.
Hirohito is 87, and has been in
low decline since he had surgery
for an intestinal obstruction a year
igo (and had to cancel a scheduled
rip to Okinawa). He was once
anked right alongside Hitler and
Mussolini in Allied war propaganda,
ut in his later years it was difficult
envisage the shy emperor whose
main enthusiasm was marine biol-
gy as a factor of any great impor-
ance in the world.
It is equally difficult to imagine
rown Prince Akihito as a mover and.
haker: His best-known public
chievement in 54 years of life has
een to contribute a section about
bbies to a book on fish, Yet the
lange of reign will have a profound
fect on the collective emotional life
"the Japanese.
There is no Japanese under 60
ho can remember a time when Hi-
hito was not on the throne: He
ans the country's entire modern
story. When he came to the throne
1926, Japan was still the poverty-
ricken but ferociously determined
derdeveloped country of whose
habitants Rudyard Kipling once
ote that they were "not natives,
t not quite sahitw either."
And young Hirolife was literally
god to most Japause. When an
fortunate policeman misdirected
e imperial motorcade down an al-
, he disemboweled himself in pen-
ce for his error. The emperor was
e incarnation of the Japanese peo-
e, with absolute authority, and no
dinary mortal could look at him.
There is still a great deal of dis-
te about how nin h Hirohito per-
wally exercised hats authority, or
t it to other projde. in the years
ding up to Winld War II, but 15
ars after ascending the throne he
esided over a milllinii empire con-
lling half of Asin
Five years after that he ftresided
Gwynne Dyer is a columnist
ed in London, England.
Emperor Hirohito
only over a defeated and hungry pop-
ulation huddled in its ruined cities
(two of them devastated by atomic
bombs) - and the American con-
querors required him to renounce
his godhood. In the 1947 constitu-
tion, he was no longer the god-king,
but only "a symbol of the state and
the unity of the people."
Not much has been seen of the
emperor in the succeeding four dec-
ades - usually only a couple of pub-
la appearances a yent mit a lah
of the Imperial Palace in Volvo A
yet he was always prost nt In the J.
mise consciousness ## # phaser
symbol of continuity with the
tional past.
CPYRGHT
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