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| America And The Enemy Within |
| 2009-11-21 |
| From the article For example, during World War I, there were several groups of German intelligence operatives, including active saboteurs, who hid among the German-American population. In addition, there was popular pressure on the German-American community to "prove" their loyalty. As a result, many German language newspapers ceased publication, or switched to an English language format. This angered many German-Americans, causing resentments that took decades to subside. During World War II, it was much the same. Except this time there were three "suspicious" nationalities (Japanese, Italian and German). All three had produced, before America entered the war, groups backing the new political movements back in the old country. The FBI knew that there were enemy spies in all three ethnic groups. And the Japanese spy networks were the most difficult to penetrate, largely for cultural reasons. Much crucial information regarding Japanese espionage networks on the West Coast remained secret for many years because this data was obtained by cryptanalysis (the MAGIC system). What MAGIC seemed to reveal was that Japanese diplomats had established an extensive system of Japanese-Americans agents on the West Coast. As with many German-Americans and Italian-Americans, there were many Japanese-Americans who were still loyal to "the Old Country." Go to the article and read the whole thing. Enlightening history of the relocation's of the Japanese, Italians, German-Americans during WWII. |
| Posted by:tipover |
| #1 As with many German-Americans and Italian-Americans, there were many Japanese-Americans who were still loyal to "the Old Country." LOL. /looks around for closet Afrikaaners |
| Posted by: Perry Stanford White 2009-11-21 16:00 |