JAPANESE ELECTION RETURNS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01737A001800040001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 31, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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Japanese Zlection Returns
I. The figures used in this morning's CID were
ned from Associated mess and later confirmed by
Tokyo. They are:
LDP
(plus eight* inde-
pendents expected
to Join)
J5,
140
IP
30
%=*I
25
JCP
Independent (in addi-
6
tion to eight above)
ass
2. The Post correctly used the 2
"
story by RIchar
Halloran. Howeve
garbled his figures to show a JCP
than a gain. He was also mixed up on
originally held 144 seats and had los
before the election. He took this as
Ming with a figure of 141.
ditorial writer
I seat ra
is J5P, which had
tree of these
lection loss.
3. The Times used the 277 figure but did not ra
independen s. It did not note'. the JSP's earlie
a of three seats, showing instead a loss from 144
* We said "some* in the CID.
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