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THE MOUSE AT PEARL HARBOR

True Spies Episode 62: The Mouse at Pearl Harbor

NARRATOR: Welcome to True Spies. Week by week, mission by mission, you’ll hear the true stories behind the world’s greatest espionage operations. You’ll meet the people who navigate this secret world. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position? This is True Spies.

TAKEO YOSHIKAWA: I reached out and shook his hand. Tears were streaming from my eyes. And then we went to work, shredding the codebooks and then throwing them into a bonfire. What we didn’t realize was that the smoke from the fire was attracting the attention of our neighbors...

NARRATOR: This is True Spies Episode 62: The Mouse at Pearl Harbor. This week’s True Spy worked on a paradise island in the Pacific Ocean as a Japanese undercover agent in 1941. But, for the moment, let’s drift away from those shores and turn our attention to a ranch in the middle of the Arizona desert. Specifically, the Triangle T Ranch, in Dragoon, Arizona - rattlesnakes, tumbleweeds, the whole enchilada. Pictu

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Takeo Yoshikawa: The Japanese Spy at Pearl Harbor

by Nicholas Best

When the task force slipped out of port on December 5, 1941, a man calling himself Tadashi Morimura watched from a few hundred yards away to the north. He was careful not to write anything down, but he missed nothing as Lexington put to sea. With the help of the reference book Jane’s Fighting Ships and a good memory, he knew exactly which American warships were leaving harbor. It was his job to record their movements and report them to his spymasters in Tokyo.

Morimura had been in Oahu since the end of March. Ostensibly he was a junior official at the Japanese consulate on Nuuana Avenue. In reality he was a spy, Admiral Yamamoto’s principal eyes and ears on the island. His consular duties were simply a cover for his clandestine activities as Japan prepared for war with the United States.

Morimura’s real name was Takeo Yoshikawa. He was twenty- nine years old, a former trainee pilot with the Japanese navy. Invalided out of the service with a stomach condition, he had been recruited as a spy instead and posted

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Takeo Yoshikawa and the Spies Behind the Pearl Harbor Attack

By Phil Zimmer

“You are probably the nearest to war that you’ll ever be without actually being in it,” said Commander Harold M. “Beauty” Martin as he addressed his men on the morning of December 6, 1941, at Kaneohe Naval Air Station on Mokapu Peninsula, located less than 15 miles east-northeast of Pearl Harbor. “Keep your eyes and ears open and be on the alert to every moment,” said the well-respected commander. One fellow who was keeping his eyes wide open that day was Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa. He closely observed the Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor on the south side of Oahu late in the afternoon from vantage points at Aiea Heights and the Pearl City Landing. Later the same day, he sent a coded report to Tokyo noting that the U.S. Army had ordered equipment for barrage defense balloons, but none was yet on scene, and he opined that torpedo nets probably were not in place to protect the battleships at anchor in Pearl Harbor. “I imagine that there is considerable opportunity left … for a surpri