JAPANESE SPY GEAR AND SPECIAL WEAPONS: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War

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Uncovers Japan's secret Noborito Research Institute, detailing its wartime spy gear, weapons, and postwar influence. Their espionage devices, including secret inks, bugging devices, and miniature cameras, helped the Kempeitai and the Yama Agency counter foreign spies and track domestic dissent. Details how forgers reproduced Chinese currency in an operation to wreck China's economy, scientists tested biological weapons on Chinese prisoners and developed a virus to strike at America's cattle herds, how they developed bombing balloons to attack the American heartland, among other aspects. Also details how Noborito veterans entered US military service in secret, then applied their skills to operations during the Korean War and for years afterward in the Cold War. Contains 20 mono illustrations.