Asian American Spies : How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

Hayashi, Brian Masaru

Oxford University Press Inc（2021/10発売）

Oxford University Press Inc（2021/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195338850
• DDC分類 940.54867308995

Full Description

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II.

Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers.

All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of today's CIA. Brian Masaru Hayashi brings to light for the first time the role played by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in America's first centralized intelligence agency in its fight against the Imperial Japanese forces in east Asia during World War II. They served deep behind enemy lines gathering intelligence for American and Chinese troops locked in a desperate struggle against Imperial Japanese forces on the Asian continent. Other Asian Americans produced and disseminated statements by bogus peace groups inside the Japanese empire to weaken the fighting resolve of the Japanese. Still others served with guerrilla forces attacking enemy supply and communication lines behind enemy lines. Engaged in this deadly conflict, these Asian Americans agents encountered pirates, smugglers, prostitutes, and dancers serving as the enemy's spies, all the while being subverted from within the OSS by a double agent and without by co-ethnic collaborators in wartime Shanghai.

Drawing on recently declassified documents, Asian American Spies challenges the romanticized and stereotyped image of these Chinese, Japanese, and Korean American agents--the Model Minority-while offering a fresh perspective on the Allied victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Prologue: A Trojan Horse?
Introduction
Ch. 1. Creating an Inclusive, Centralized Intelligence Agency
Ch. 2. Recruiting Asian Americans with the Right Stuff
Ch. 3. Morale Operations and Talking Their Way into Japan
Ch. 4. Fighting Like a Man, Special Operations Style
Ch. 5. The Long and Short of Spying for Research & Analysis and Secret Intelligence
Ch. 6. Rescuing POWs, Countering Enemy Spies, and Encountering Collaborators
Ch. 7. Loyalty, Treason, and Asian Americans
Epilogue: Unveiling the Trojan Horse
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index