| Item title: | Japanese knowledge of Allied activities derived from security leaks or espionage |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/43) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS research reports |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 12/43 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 12/- |
| Item: | RR-65 supplement no. 1 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 64 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Information report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 29/3/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | INTELLIGENCE, INTERROGATION, NATIVES, AERIAL OPERATIONS, MILITARY OPERATIONS, NAVAL OPERATIONS |
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| Allied unit names: | US 5th Air Force |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Torokina [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), Bougainville, Central Bougainville] Hawaiian Islands [Central Pacific] Oahu [Central Pacific, Hawaiian Islands] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report on Japanese knowledge of Allied activities, gained through security leaks or espionage. This report is a supplement to RR-65 issued on 29 March 1945. Based on evidence available to ATIS from 5 December 1943 to 2 October 1944, it contains information on Japanese interrogation methods and intelligence elicited from Allied prisoners of war including: evidence of the torture of prisoners, intelligence gained from prisoners, intelligence gathered from captured documents and Allied broadcasts, intelligence derived from natives and Japanese knowledge of Allied intelligence organisations and activities. Fifteen charts and sketches, interspersed throughout the report, show the organisation of the United States 5th Air Force, airfields on Oahu, the armament of a B-24 aircraft, wire obstacles around a pill box, Allied positions in the Torokina River, air patrols in Hawaii, armament of a United States torpedo boat, the organisation of Australian forces and an intelligence report on Allied submarine appearances between 1 and 31 December 1943. The appendix contains a map of the Allied situation to January 1944. The ATIS researchers concluded that although the Japanese relied heavily on information obtained from prisoners of war and captured documents and had successfully obtained information of military value from interrogations, this did not indicate a failure of Allied security because of use of torture. Japanese estimates of Allied landings and Allied air strength were accurate, but their interpretations of broadcasts were erroneous. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:01:39 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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