LETTER TO BEDELL FROM MAJOR GENERAL C. A.WILLOUGHBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 24, 1951
• Content Type: LETTER

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T am sorry I mislaid my address file. I trust
that nothing went amiss in our latest correspondecne ?
I had hoped to hear from you at Wedemeyers. Now I am here.
I can't say that I enjoy the climate or the East.
What I have seen, has been a continued disillusionment ..
I recognized at once that the House and Senate
Committees were at logger-heads, even competitive. I am
in the middle in an unenvious position.
However, I have had them down here, for lucnheon
safle spaced apart and believe that I have become a sort
of mediator . I think that I can establish lines of demar-
cation between them and develop some joint releasees and
joint action. I did not want to appear before these Com
mittees anyway. However, they are impressed by my private
book on Sorge and ~rant it badly ; they will distribute
thru House and Senate and that will close that issue as
far as I am concerned.
I feel confident that I can steer a middle course
and not leave a bad taste, after all. Note draft of my
statement ( not for the Press whom I dislike thoroughly)
on the occasion of first apperance. I do not think that
anyone could consider this ob2ectioneble or an " attack"
on anybody ? Show it to Mr Allen and. his Brother.
I am still deeply concerned about Japan and the
group I consider essential for re-armament. I fear that
the remnants of the Gov Section aspire to become second
Whitmeys and interfere with the " depurge "process ".
Belige me, the future of Asia depends on that country.
Note that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet came to
Yokohama to see me off; that won't happen again soon ?
Ridgeway anted me to stay and I still have a vague feeling
that I syould have seen the war out ?_. However, the Medicoes
gave me bad jolt : I have a serious arthritis of the
Spine, with all sorts of future complications. Rest is
indicated - but I do not see it around here. I find the
East and the Climate most uncomfortable and depressing.
I must soon make some decisions though I could
remain here, in the shelter of my relatives, though one
can overdo that sort of thing ? I have seen the General
briefly. He is on his own, in many ways, in a political
program , in which I find no immediate place
Let me hear from you, when the spirt moves
you. Dr & Mrs Araki sent a " presento" ; they faj.led to
include a card. I have a presento for your wi e, at a
later date.
Cordially
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A Statement by Major General Charles A. Willoughby - MacArthur's I am Lyi
Chief of Intelligences 1941 - 1951 not to of
fend any
one ?
Recent newspaper reports have 4evelope4 a tendency to attribute sensa-
tional qualities to my impending testimony before certain Congressional Commit-
tees. I am described as "threatening a brand new ruckus," as being "sore at
the Pentagon," as "vowing to jar the Capital with Spy tales"; yet another enfant
terrible of the Press charges me with "promises to redden faces and to set off
explosions," as being "a thorn in the side of the Pentagon."
Flamboyant headlines are understandable--if they remain within limits.
While I am ranged squarely on the side of MacArthur--after all, loyalty is just
as effective in Tokyo as in Kansas City or Washington?-there are certain facets
to my presentation, in Congress, that I desire to record.
I have no direct issue with the Army or the State Department. The
Army is sound. It was put to a most cruel test in Korea, and it has passed summa
cum laude, as on many other historical occasion. After forty-one years' service,
I leave the service with a feeling of regret. The Regular Army is a hard task-
master but it is also a delightful fraternal organizations
As regards the State Department, I have served as Military Attache for
many years in our Embassies of Caracas, Bogota and Quito.
The field personnel
is first-class. The American diplomatic posts abroad are maintained with the
dignity commensurate with a great nation. They operate in an atmosphere of
sharp competition, since foreign establishments are on a more lavish scale
usually paid for in'lend-lease channels. Tokyo is a most conspicuous example..
The real subject matter of my presentation is in a field of international
danger., in which all political parties could meet amicably,on grounds of common
interest.
There are recognizable historical. factors, the dangerous impact of which
is only now beginning to be felt. The dead hand of the past rests heavily on a
precarious present. We are still in the shadow of Cairo, Yalta, Teheran and
Potsdam. Retribution has been swift and terrible. The victors of 1945 have
created a Frankenstein that may yet slay thems the Red menace, international
Communism, though it is only fair to. accept that the present Administration is
staggering under an intolerable burden, that it inherited from its predecessors
and did not itself create..
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It fell within the purview of MacArthur's intelligence section to con-
front this menace in the Far East, to unmask the grimacing face of the red
The story of Richard Sorge, Soviet master spy, became the vehicle of
presentation-. It has been covered recently, in its main features, by "Newsweek"
and the "United States News & World Report"'f however, their stories merely scratch
the surface. For a period of years, Tokyo has filed with the War Department a
most extensive documentation on Sorge, contained in over thirty consecutive
"exhibits," aggregating over a million words, with hundreds of plates, photostats
and illustrations;
While certain individuals emerge sharply in this report, they must be
viewed against the sinister background of a world conspiracy, the essential
framework of which should be known to our legislators and to our people. In its
unimpeachable and devastating evidence, this case will dispel carefully nurtured,
false notions on the responsibilities for the China debacle, and place this con-
troversial subject into proper focus.
The element which intrigued MacArthur's intelligence was the immediate
recognition that Richard Sorge's story did not begin or end with Tokyo, but was
only a chip in the general mosaic of Soviet strategy.
An investigation was opened into the Shanghai period and the IIId
Comintern "apparatus." In Shanghai, in the early Thirties, we are not dealing
with the period of uneasy alliance with the Soviets, 1941 - 1945, but with the
more significant prewar years of 1929 - 1939, in the heyday of the IIId Communist
International, prelude to the infamous Stalin v Hitler pact, sole factor that
made World War II at all impossible.
We are dealing here with a conspiratorial epooh in the history of modern
China. Shanghai was the vineyard of Communism. Here were sown the dragonst
tenth that haveripened-into the Red harvest of today -- and the farm labour was
done by men and women of many nationalities who had no conceivable personal stake
in China other than an inexplicable fanaticism for an alien cause, the Communist
"jehad" of Pan-Slavism for the subjugation of the Western World*
Most of the old wheelhorses of the American Communist party appear to
have been operating in Shanghai, in one period or another, the professionals of
the clandestine fraternity, as well as mere acolytes and dupes, flirting moth-
like with the Red menace; there is Earl Browder, Sam Darcy, Eugene Dennis, Harry
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My cumulative reports contain over 180 identities, surnames,., aliases,
and code-designations, derived from Court records authenticated by American
lawyers, or from the fabulous dossiers of the French and British Sections of the
Shanghai International Police,
The exact degree of relationship or association ranges from direct
espionage by Comintern "agents" to the twilight zone of fellow-traveling dupes
and befuddled liberals -,.apparently unaware that they have drifted into an inter-
national conspiracy for the sole benefit of an alien-and-hostile Government.,
I have filed detailed evidence with appropriate Federal agencies and
[certain Congressional Comnittees.I Lot the chips fall where they may, As regards.
,my personal fortune, it is supremely unimportant, and does not concern me; one
of the Committees has already received letters threatening my life 7
It is thus that I discharge my moral obligation toward the United States
which has received me as an immigrant boy and given me shelter and citizenship
as a man.
I have no doubt that the hue and cry will start again, as in 1949. I
expect to be attacked by the Communist press, from the "China Digest," in Hong
Kong, to the "Far East Spot Light," in Now York, Orders will go out from the
shabby loft building on 35 East 12th Street, New York. The red cells will dis-
gorge their indefatigable little workers. The pinko columnists will sharpen
their quills. The "sir'".brigade will swing into action. Some red "mouthpiece"
will prostitute the law of the land and sue me for libel, as before, and I will
accept, as before. Yet, in the cacophony of frenzied accusations, I ,am reminded
of an ancient saying: "...It is better to fail in a cause that must ultimately
succeed, than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.,,."
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