A Different Approach to Intelligence

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Notes

1 OPC briefly operated as an independent body between 1948 and 1950, and then became part of CIA. OPC was initially housed with SCAP’s Diplomatic Service in the Mitsui Building in Nihonbashi, a district within Tokyo.

2 PSIA’s name was later changed to Public Security Intelligence Agency.

3 They were later transferred to the Annex Chamber of the Second Division of the Ground Staff Office and based on the model of the U.S. Army Security Agency, Pacific.

4 While there is some information on its existence in English, according to Williams there is virtually none available in Japanese.

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Carl Anthony Wege

Carl Anthony Wege is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia. He is the author of dozens of articles discussing terrorism and security relationships involving Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly publications. The author can be reached at [email protected].