Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory 1st Edition Brian Masaru Hayashi

Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory 1st Edition Brian Masaru Hayashi – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190092856,9780190092863,9780195338850,0190092858,0190092866,0195338855

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• ISBN 10: 0190092866
• ISBN 13: 9780190092863 
• Author:  Brian Masaru Hayashi

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.

Table content:

1. Creating an Inclusive, Centralized Intelligence Agency

2. Recruiting Asian Americans with the Right Stuff

3. Morale Operations and Talking Their Way Into Japan

4. Fighting Like a Man, Special Operations Style

5. Knowing Your Enemies and Allies: Research & Analysis and Secret Intelligence

6. Countering Enemy Spies, Rescuing POWs, and Dealing with Collaborators

7. Race, Loyalty, and Asian Americans

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