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-7- In the years before reurl 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 wells, harbors and forts in California. On the strategic Terminal Island at the entrance to Los Angeles Haroor, 3,000 Japanese were living. After December_7, when FRI agents made a series of raids on these Japanese communities, they uncovered caches of puns, ammunition, explosives , maps, Charts, higepower caueras, Signaling devices, short-wave radios, and other “equipment of spies and saboteurs. yeoman of the u.!S. Navy and financed this ex-yeoman on two trips to Fear] Harbor. The Plot was exposed on June 10, 1941, when Federal agents arrested the spies. ae Sy "In spite of such setbacks, Toxyo secured enough information from its s,ies in the United States to pre are, gust oefore Pearl Harbor, a 200-pare handbook filled with photographs and technical details about tne United States Mevy." The next ten pages of this chapter are devoted to Anastase Andreivitch PRonsiatsky, and his activities both here and abroad. - As the Nazis had directed and financed tne fascist “white Russian movement in Lurope, the Japanese at an early date had taken it over in Asia. “shite Russians living in Japanese territory were organized into a fully equipped fascist army some 150,000 strong. At its head was the ourly savoteur-spy Lieutenant-Ceneral Gregory Semenoff, an ex-Czarist officer and self-proclaimed "Atanan" (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 incoryori Semenoff'ts forces into the Japanese Army under the command of Major Batase. "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 discuss the clandestine meeting held in a room at the ‘'atel Bis. \a Chicago, snortly before Pearl Harbor which was attended oy G. Wilhels wililumeit, Father Alexsi\gelypenko and Yonsiatsky. "“ruture plans for espion se-savot activity in America were discussed." Not long after this meeting, Vonsiatsxy sent Pelypenko to Vlashington to report to the Japanese iilitary Attache. When Pelypenko made his report to the Japanese idilitary 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 ar to accumulate all the latest available data on that section of the United States. "Z3ut something happened in the case of Telysenko that Vonsiatsky and the Japanese hac not reckoned on. She Ukrainian jriest reportec to the PBL ali he knew avout vonsiat: