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-7- + In the years before rearl Harbor, potential Japanese saboteurs moved in by Groves to take up residence and carry on business in the immediate vicinity of importa United States military establishments, oil storage tanks, oil welis, harbors and forts in California. On the strategic Terminal Island at the entrance to Los Angeles Haroor, 3,000 Japanese were living. After Decenber_7, when FSI agents made a series of raids on these Japanese communities, they uncovered caches of S, ammunition, explosives, maps, charts, hignpower cameras, signaling devices, short-wave radios, and other ee oe valet to Charles\Chapiin, and who with Tatibana enlisted the services of a former yeonan of the u./S. Navy and financed this ex-yeoman on two trips to Fearl Earbor, The Plot was exposed on June 10, 1941, when Federal agents arrested tne svies. "In spite of such setbacks, Toxyo secured enough information from its s,ies in the United States to pre, are, just oefore Peerl Earbor, a 200-pare handbook filled with photographs and technical details about the United States Uevy." . Ths next ten vages of this chapter are devoted to Anastase Andreivitch —aisttice beth here an abroad. ~SCSCSs—“—sSsSSSSS JRonsiatsky, and his activities 5b ttas the Nazis had directed and financed the fascist “white Russian movement in Zurope, the Japanese at an early date had taken it over in Asia. “White hussians living in Japanese territory were organized into a fully equipped fascist army some 150,000 strong. At its head was the ourly sasoteur-spy Lieutenant—Ceneral Jregory Semencff, an ex-Czarist officer and self-proclaimed "Ataman" (Cossack chieftain. ) The Japanese pretended for many years that they had no connection with Semenoff's arm but one week before vearl Harbor they dropped this subterfuge and officially incorpor Semenoffts forces inte the Javanese Army under the command of Major Batase. we ae Me PPaliss Se Heda Leis belt aad SA ~ 5 ® h nt) @ "From the outset, Tokyo was interested in the fascist White Russian movemen in the United States, and particularly in Vonsiatsky's Party." The authors go on to relate Vonsiatsky's trip to Tokyo and his travels in Manchukuo and other Asiatic centers of fascist White Russian operations. They diseuss the clandestine meeting held in a room at the tlqatel Bis. arck in Chicago, snortly before Pearl Harbor which was attended oy %. Wilheluwpunze, Otto Yillumeit, Father Alexsi‘wel truture plans for eSoionage-sabot activity in America were discussed." Not lons after this meeting, Vonsiatsky sent Pelypenko to “lashington to report to the Japanese jiilitary Attache. When Pelypenko made his report to the Japanese Military Attache, he was given a message to take back to Vonsiatsky. ‘The Fussian fascist leader was to get in touch im.ediately with his contacts in Alaska a1 to accumulate all the latest available data on that section of the United States. "But something happened in the case of Tely:enko tnat Vonsiatsky and the Japanese hac not reckoned on. “ne Ukrainian criest reportec bo the f3l all he knew avout Yonsiat: eee