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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700570001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 8, 1965
• Content Type: TRANS

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(EXCERPTS) KIYOSHI TSUKAMOTO, FIFTYTHREE 53 YEARS OLD,.HAS
ATTRACTED PUBLIC ATTENTION EVER SINCE HIS "TSUKAMOTO",GENERAL:
,.ENTERPRISE" COMPANY BUILT A PLANT FOR MANUFACTURI.NG'-BULL'ETS;
N" -NE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND 950,000 DOLLARS' WORTH,,IN* .SOUTH VIETNAM*
AND I 'l TOYO PRECISION MACHINERY COMPANY, WHICH HE'MANAGES ALSO AS
,...ITS PRESIDENT SOLD TWENTYFOUR THOUSAND 24.000 BULLETS TO SOUTH
;VIETNAM AS A MEASURE OF COOPERATION WITH THE PUPPET GOVERNMENT..
THE SOKA GAKKAI, WHICH, BOASTS OF HIM AS "HAVING ACHIEVED THE
THIS JAPANESE. "LETHAL' MERCHANT". IS, TO OUR. SURPRISE, AN ADVISER
AMAZING DEVELOPMENT '0F BUSINESS IN .LINE WITH: HIS
(PASSAGE OMITTED TELLING OF THEBACKGROUN
OF THE "TSUKAMOTO GENERAL
ENTERPRISE" AND TSUKAMOTO'S MILITARY CAREER).
CONNECTION WITH THE U.S. OCCUPATION AUTHORITIES,' AS-`IS OBVIOUS;.,
(ANONYMOUS ARTICLE:ON KIYOSHI TSUKAMOTO,."LETHAL
TSUKAMOTO 'AS A BUSINESSMAN IN POSTWAR JAPAN WAS,'DUE
.U.S. OCCUPATION PERMISSION. IT IS SAID THAT:HE IS STILL CLOSELY
FRM HIS IMPORT OF PRECISION MACHINERY FROM WEST GERMANY UNDER
CONNECTED.'WITH. THE , U..Sv CENTRAL_:INTELLIGENCE :AGENCY AND IS ONE OF,
Approved, For Release 2004/12/15: CIA-RDP75-0.0.1498000700570
IT LS.SAID THAT THE SUDDEN RISE OF ONE.; TIME MILITARY OFFICER.