U.S. Covert Action in Japan in the 1960s Disclosed

July 25th, 2006 at 18:35 Björn Hallberg

The truth usually comes out eventually. Here is a fine example of the US promoting democracy abroad and rigging an entire political system for their benefit.

“In the 1958-1968 decade, the U.S. Government approved four covert programs to try to influence the direction of Japanese political life,” the State Department revealed this week in the latest volume of Foreign Relations of the United States, the official history of U.S. foreign policy.

“Concerned that potential electoral success by leftist political forces would strengthen Japanese neutralism and eventually pave the way for a leftist government in Japan, the Eisenhower administration authorized the Central Intelligence Agency before the May 1958 elections for the Japanese House of Representatives to provide a few
key pro-American and conservative politicians with covert limited financial support and electoral advice,” according to an Editorial Note in the new volume (document 1).

So that is the story of how Japan was set up as key ally and a single party came to dominate the political scene, all but consecutively to the present. Japan of course remains a US pawn to this day. And one that the US wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice if it ever came to blows in Sino-American relations.

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