Revisiting the Rastvorov and Seki/Kulikov Incidents --Two case Studies on the Post-World War II U.S. -Soviet intelligence war in Japan--

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  • SHINDO, Shotaro
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • ラストボロフ事件および関・クリコフ事件 --戦後日本を舞台とする米ソ情報戦の例として--
  • ラストボロフ ジケン オヨビ セキ ・ クリコフ ジケン : センゴ ニホン オ ブタイ ト スル ベイソ ジョウホウセン ノ レイ ト シテ

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This study attempts to shed light on the Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) repatriation program after World War II, and suggests a close association to an aspect of the intelligence war between the U. S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War by focusing on two post-war espionage incidents in Japan, the Rastvorov Incident and Seki/Kulikov Incident. Based on declassified documents of the National Archives at College Park. ; RG319 impersonal files, and RG319 personnel files. By examining these incidents, this paper explores how intelligence agencies on both sides of the Pacific handled Japanese repatriation at the end of World War II to show how espionage activities impacted Japan. It also demonstrates that Japan depended on U. S. military organization to cope with the Soviet conspiracy on Japan after occupation era.

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