has made up his mind to attack Pearl Harbor , and the work I pressed is to start all preparations for the war against the United States. Preparations are not only military, but also political, diplomatic, intelligence and other aspects.
Intelligence Collection. The ghosts wandering around Pearl Harbor
In Yamamoto Irosaurus wrote a letter to the 11th Air Force Chief of Staff Oshiki Takijiro Major General 2, Yamamoto briefly introduced this idea to Colonel Ogawa Kanxie of the Navy Intelligence Department, asking him to collect as much information as possible about Pearl Harbor.
In fact, the Japanese Navy's Intelligence Department had already established an intelligence team in Hawaii, hiring a German named Otto Kuhn and two Americans of Japanese descent as intelligence officers. Otto Kuhn was Himmler's old friend. Because Himmler did not appreciate him, he left the Nazis and came to Hawaii. Kuhn himself has a wide range of social relationships and knows many important people. Kuhn earns some rewards to support his family by acting as a Japanese spy.
Colonel Ogawa is a shrewd and capable, visionary intelligence officer, and he also noticed the importance of Pearl Harbor. In the spring of 1940, he believed that Otto Kuhn's intelligence was not well-established and provided irrelevant situations. Another spy must be sent to Hawaii to collect intelligence. After careful selection, Ogawa selected Second Lieutenant Yoshikawa Mongo, who was in charge of US intelligence collection in the 5th Division of the Intelligence Department. Yoshikawa accepted this dangerous task. He took off his military uniform and entered the Japanese university to study English and international law, preparing for his post in the Japanese Consulate in Hawaii, especially for completing his spy mission.
Yoshikawa Myoo was 28 years old at the time and was a graduate of Etashima Navy non-commissioned officer. After graduation, he was assigned to the ship as a cryptocurrent and transferred to the 5th Division of the Navy Intelligence Department. His job was to concentrate on collecting and studying the intelligence of the US Navy's ship . This time, he was sent to Hawaii.
On March 27, 1941, more than a month after Yamamoto talked with Colonel Ogawa, Yoshikawa Minoto changed his name to Morimura Masahira, and he served as the new consulate secretary and went to the Hawaii Consulate with a high sound.
After Yoshikawa took office, he started espionage under the guidance of Consul General Kita Nagao. He sometimes participates in social activities as a diplomat, sometimes travels around Oahu as a tourist, and sometimes in Pearl Harbor as a tour guide. There are two places where he went most: one is the geisha house opened by a Japanese woman, Chunfan Building, which is very close to Pearl Harbor and the airport. You can directly observe the situation inside and at the airport by windows; the other is a cafe opened by a Japanese man near the Pearl Harbor Naval Pier, where you can directly understand the information about the US fleet's departure, entry, and new equipment. Yoshikawa was active and careful in activities. In a short time, he traveled all over Oahu and its surrounding islands to roughly understand the deployment of the US military.
Pearl Harbor
Yoshikawa accidentally discovered that the US military's warning was only the front of Pearl Harbor, but there was no one on the hill behind it. There, the parking situation of the aircraft carrier and battleship and heavy cruisers can be clearly observed, which made Yoshikawa ecstatic.
One morning, Yoshikawa, who lived in Chunfan Building overnight, opened the window and was startled: Pacific Fleet is setting off and leaving the port, aircraft carriers, battleships, and destroyers are unfolding and slowly leaving Pearl Harbor. Within an hour, the huge formation left quietly. This unexpected gain made Yoshikawa feel the activity rules of the Pacific Fleet - the fleet's departure time is in the early morning.
Yoshikawa is helpless in collecting meteorological conditions. But he obtained a meteorological data from a Japanese amateur astronomer that was crucial to the sneak attack. The old man observed the meteor for thirty years and gave the information: Hawaii has not experienced a storm in the past 30 years, and in the east-west mountains on Oahu, it is always cloudy to the north and sunny to the south. Yoshikawa made the attack on Hawaii by Japanese fighter jets without being restricted by the season and specific meteorological conditions of the day.
Yoshikawa almost every day reports the situation of the Pacific Fleet that he has detected to Tokyo with a password. According to international law, the consulate may send a password telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the name of the Consul General. Most of Yoshikawa's intelligence was transmitted to Japan through this channel and transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Navy Command. Yoshikawa sometimes spends money to deliver intelligence through Hawaii folk radio programs. For example, if you broadcast "Lost a police dog named "Mayer" and "nearly brand new Chinese carpet" and other unnoticed information, the "lost" and "new" here mean leaving and entering Hong Kong.
From Yoshikawa sent the first intelligence to Tokyo, until the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, Yoshikawa sent 177 telegrams to Tokyo.
Yoshikawa's outstanding work has enabled Yamamoto Iroku to obtain a lot of important information. For example, Yoshikawa suggests: the north side of Oahu is cloudy all year round, and you can enter from the north side to dive bombing Pearl Harbor. The Pacific Fleet usually returns to Hong Kong on weekends and leaves on Mondays; the focus of US air patrol and alerts on Oahu is on the south and west of the island... These intelligences are important information that Yamamoto Irosaki urgently needs.
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