Target State: Japan
Dates: 1952-68
Tactics: Covert – Election influence
Type of Operation: Preventive
Regime Replaced: Yes
Primary Source Documents:
• FRUS, 1968–1968, Vol. XXIX, Part 2, Japan, ed. Karen L. Gatz (Washington, DC: US
GPO, 2006), Doc. 1, Editorial Note
• Psychological Strategy Board, December 22, 1952), “Psychological Strategy Program for
Japan,” NSA
• Robert O. Blake, James D. Mason, and Horace G. Torbert, December 29, 1990, “Interview
with Robert O. Blake,” Manuscript/mixed material, Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib000096/